Calling all Applicants: INSEAD January 2021 Intake !

Congrats! And did you apply with your GMAT score or will you be doing it latter?

I took the GRE a while back and submitted those scores.

Hello all,

As communicated in INSEAD email, We need to submit our GMAT scores before 20th July 2020.

Would the final decision notification(deadline 24th July) depend on whether the candidate has submitted the score before 20th July or INSEAD will give conditional acceptance stating that candidate can give the GMAT before the start of the course in January.

Has any of the AO's clarifed on this subject?

Hello all,

As communicated in INSEAD email, We need to submit our GMAT scores before 20th July 2020.

Would the final decision notification(deadline 24th July) depend on whether the candidate has submitted the score before 20th July or INSEAD will give conditional acceptance stating that candidate can give the GMAT before the start of the course in January.

Has any of the AO's clarifed on this subject?

Hello all,

As communicated in INSEAD email, We need to submit our GMAT scores before 20th July 2020.

Would the final decision notification(deadline 24th July) depend on whether the candidate has submitted the score before 20th July or INSEAD will give conditional acceptance stating that candidate can give the GMAT before the start of the course in January.

Has any of the AO's clarifed on this subject?

I had not noticed that they moved the decision deadline to July 24th! It makes sense since they moved to June 26th the interview notification.

Have you taken already this week the GMAT? How it was?

I do think your question answers itself, are you trying to get someone to tell you that you do not need to provide the GMAT?¿? If you must provide it before July 20th you must, period. They said that they need the GMAT to make a decision, I do not see much interpretation leeway there, you can always ask your AO about it.

Regards,
Pablo

Hey, hope you are doing well.

I am from India, where the number of covid cases is rapidly rising day by day. I was hoping to give the exam when the centres open up, weirdly the gmat centres have opened up despite the worsening covid situation. Stepping outside to give an exam is very scary. Online gmat does not accommodate everyone. In most parts of the country, there are untimely regular power-cuts that lead to unstable wifi connections. It is what it is. Most of the schools in the US had made it clear that one could apply w/o the gmat, but the school would need a gmat score by "x" date for complete evaluation. Insead kept it a little ambiguous in my opinion, did not mention any specific date, which led to a lot of people thinking that the school would be giving conditional offers. I am one of those people. Had Insead specified the said date ie 20th July, as other b schools did, I would have applied in the next cycle, not this one. So yeah, i'm in this extremely weird situation.
I have asked my AO about the same. Insead is my dream school. Let's see.

Regards,

Hi. Since the lock-down in India is now lifted, I am finally taking the GMAT tomorrow.

I can totally relate with the Power-cuts and WiFi issues. I haven't been able to give a single mock without a power-cut, so definitely cannot take the online GMAT. We can pause and re-open the mock test but not the actual GMAT

Thanks.

Hi all, regarding GMAT scores, this is INSEAD's stand (https://www.insead.edu/master-programmes/updates)

"You can now initially apply for INSEAD Master Programmes without a GMAT, GRE, EA or TOEFL test score, however, you will still need to submit the scores as soon as they become available as they remain important elements for the final admissions decision."

So one needs to submit the gmat score in order to receive an offer it seems.

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Great ! exactly my point ie online gmat is not a feasible option for everyone. I was hoping not to disclose my precise location, but still, here it goes. I am from delhi. now most of the states in our country, like Delhi, are currently seeing major surge in the number of cases. So I am not willing to risk getting infected for the sake of an exam , not trying to de-motivate you, just acknowledging what the current situation in my country is.

All the best for your exam \m/

does the above text mention any date, 20th july specifically ? No it does not, so one can always assume that the school would be giving conditional offers. That is what i am trying to say. I have asked the AO about this. Let's see what happens. I am not the only one irked by this

As far as I remember, this was always their stand..