traveler wrote:
how did you know because it was due to "diversity"? was adcom able to give you some feedback?
The way I understand it, INSEAD maintains their waitlist exclusively for the purpose of managing diversity -- I believe all us W/L'ers were told this by our respective admissions folks. So that is to say that everyone on it has a good profile, but there are other admits whom the adcom views to be better; not along strict diversity lines.
In this sense, everyone was put on the W/L due to "diversity"...because the adcom extended an admit to someone who competed against you on one or more levels of diversity.
One typically gets off the W/L and admitted if an admit with a similar profile (for purposes of the W/L e.g. gender, nationality, work experience, educational experience) decides not to matriculate.
This is also why the adcom states that there is no ranking on the W/L. If a 33 year-old female Tajik tuba player who was in the French Foreign Legion decides not to matriculate, the adcom is not going to replace that person with #1 on the waitlist, a 25 year-old male Indian IT engineer with nothing but a stellar GMAT to his name; they're going to scour the waitlist for one or more of the following: older, female Central Asian with orchestral and military experience.
On rare occasions the adcom will provide feedback; but this comes mostly in the form of encouraging reapplications for a handful of dings (e.g. adcom saying they want to see better GMAT, more management experience, etc). They typically do not provide directed feedback to us waitlisters. If any of you on the W/L have received specific feedback from your admissions person, please feel free to correct me in spectacular fashion.