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Thanks for the replies guys. I made the post only after asking this very question to the admissions team and receiving a response in the negative. Wanted to make sure the response to this was consistent is all.

Turns out the program is only open to you if you graduate in 2020 or after. Confirmed this right now in their MIM information session.

As mentioned above, yes indeed it is quite a strange stipulation and I wonder what the rationale is behind it
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Thanks for the replies guys. I made the post only after asking this very question to the admissions team and receiving a response in the negative. Wanted to make sure the response to this was consistent is all.

Turns out the program is only open to you if you graduate in 2020 or after. Confirmed this right now in their MIM information session.

As mentioned above, yes indeed it is quite a strange stipulation and I wonder what the rationale is behind it
Well, Krao99, that just sounds ludicrous to me. I can only suppose that the program is in high demand within the target demographic: enough recent graduates apply in each cycle for the program to be able to turn away those who graduated earlier. If anyone has insight into the matter, I imagine it would be bb. I wonder if there are other programs with such strict cutoffs.

In any case, I hope you have a backup plan in place. Keep us posted.

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So just to add some closure to this thread, I did not fill in an application for LBS due to the rule, however got admits into the ESSEC MIM Grande Ecole and the HSG SIM programme. Went with the latter. All the best to everyone applying for masters programs!
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