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Calling all Applicants: INSEAD August 2024 Intake
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15 Jan 2024, 01:38
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**edit: 1000 across 2 batches not 1; I redid the math** It's impossible to know but if they have 4 rounds if we are assuming 12% - 60 total - I do not think 15 Indians get admitted per round. I believe it is front loaded. Because that's how they're going to get the best people (waiting/hoping the R4 batch is up to the par of R1 batch seems quite risky). I really think Indians and Chinese applicants should apply earlier than later for admissions odds and also to be eligible for the greatest number of scholarships (this last part applies to all.)
Thanks for the intel! Up until now, how many Indians do you think they would’ve enrolled? Has this crossed the 12-13% per country benchmark you’re talking about?
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MBAPrepCoach wrote:
If you’re not applying on Jan16th, I would encourage folks to wait for the January intake batch (Jan 2026 intake not Jan deadline) and apply in March when they have a 1000 seats available. It’s just a matter of three months. And the great majority of the scholarships are only available in round one or round two, which are particularly close together this year round 1 being March 12th and round 2 April 23rd. The application is really long - 7 essays and 5 recommendation questions x 2 recommenders - so give yourself at least 2 months, more if you are still working on your test score, have a super busy job or travel plans. Take the time to draft and iterate. Research your goals, alumni interviews often consist of grilling your plans of starting a business if you intend that. INSEAD admissions talks about how your admissions odds are the same across rounds but I simply do not believe that is true when it comes to overrepresented applicants. According to Wikipedia they take a maximum of 12% per country, i’ve also heard 13 1/2 percent so this is around 120-135 Indians. I’m sure they do reserve some of that for later rounds but it’s hard for me to believe that they do that equally across rounds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSEAD
Thanks for the intel! Up until now, how many Indians do you think they would’ve enrolled? Has this crossed the 12-13% per country benchmark you’re talking about?
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Re: Calling all Applicants: INSEAD August 2024 Intake
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15 Jan 2024, 01:40
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I think that would be quite the exception esp for males. They don’t take more than 13 1/2 percent from any one country and so this has an upward pressure on the GMAT - they’re spoiled for choice when it comes to India so it wouldn’t make a lot of sense for them to take an Indian esp Indian male with a 700 unless their profile is so arrestingly unique - they feel like he would add unprecedented value to the class. I was the thread master for many years and I never saw anything like that. But of course I’m not saying it’s impossible
On similar lines, GMAT Focus score of 665, would be tough as well?
I couldn't have put it more honestly than MBAPrepCoach did.
I also see that especially among Indian applicants, the general advice doing the rounds is that you either have an 'INSEAD' profile or you don’t. At the initial stage of profile evaluation, where so many INSEAD aspirants express their interest in the school, I have to say frankly to many that a high score is not enough to give an applicant a nod that they can make it. INSEAD has laid out the main criteria by which it evaluates applicants quite clearly, and most applicants falter when it comes to demonstrating a consistent international focus. I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that the overrepresented population at INSEAD is an exception to what I usually preach - not everyone needs to be an outlier in an MBA class. But at INSEAD, by and large, every student from the populous demographic has a unique or even unusual background. Interestingly, I also know people who were so obsessed with INSEAD that they retook the GMAT and worked on the INSEAD application even after joining other top Indian B-schools, almost twisting the original stories so that they ended up getting an offer from INSEAD after being on waitlists a long time. Interestingly, the story is quite different for underrepresented profiles. A friend at INSEAD, who spent their entire life in IT jobs in India, by their own admission, only made it thanks to the unique and underrepresented passport they held. Thats the kind of focus Insead puts on constructing a diverse class (even if it is for the stats).
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Re: Calling all Applicants: INSEAD August 2024 Intake
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15 Jan 2024, 02:11
15 Jan 2024, 02:11
MBAPrepCoach wrote:
It’s impossible to know but if they have 4 rounds if we are assuming 12% - 120 total - I do not think 30 Indians get admitted per round. I believe it is front loaded. Because that’s how they’re going to get the best people. I really think Indians and Chinese applicants should apply earlier than later for admissions odds and also to be eligible for the greatest number of scholarships (this last part applies to all.)
Ah got it. As an Indian applicant would you say R3 is late for a not-so-generic profile?
