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Calling all Applicants: INSEAD January 2024 Intake Updated on: 29 Apr 2023, 11:40
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I think you have an amazing GMAT to help you alleviate that

I hope so because I too have a low GPA. 7/10.
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Dang, these recent dings from VF have me worried. INSEAD is my dream school. Profile:

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Took some supplementary coursework at Cal last year which might help assuage GPA concerns.

Interviews went well

Going to have to do some serious exercise over the next couple days to keep anxiety in check lol. Still hoping for some good news.

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Dang, these recent dings from VF have me worried. INSEAD is my dream school. Profile:

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Took some supplementary coursework at Cal last year which might help assuage GPA concerns.

Interviews went well

Going to have to do some serious exercise over the next couple days to keep anxiety in check lol. Still hoping for some good news.

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Who is your AO?
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Also VF
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Dang, these recent dings from VF have me worried. INSEAD is my dream school. Profile:

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Took some supplementary coursework at Cal last year which might help assuage GPA concerns.

Interviews went well

Going to have to do some serious exercise over the next couple days to keep anxiety in check lol. Still hoping for some good news.

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Who is your AO?

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You should be fine. I like the fact that you took action to take courses at Cal. Let's wait a week or two. All the best!
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any updates for R2 2024? when can we expect the interview invites or rejections?
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Anyone heard from EL?
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Any update from your AO??

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Anyone heard from EL?
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Any update from your AO??

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today is a holiday in france, so maybe we’ll hear any news from tomorrow
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Hey,

Anyone with IR as their AO here?
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Yes, she is my AO too
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Guys from today onwards hopefully we might see an acceleration of more calls for admittance and unfortunately more emails of not acceptance (for R1 January intake). Please share your results, AO initials and brief profile if its okay :)
Cheers and happy waiting :)

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Guys from today onwards hopefully we might see an acceleration of more calls for admittance and unfortunately more emails of not acceptance (for R1 January intake). Please share your results, AO initials and brief profile if its okay :)
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R2 applicant here, nervously refreshing my emails every 5 mins for interview invites. My AO is AN

Best of luck!
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R2 applicant here, nervously refreshing my emails every 5 mins for interview invites. My AO is AN Best of luck!
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Mine is AN too. How does this matter that who is your AO? I do not understand that.
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R2 applicant here, nervously refreshing my emails every 5 mins for interview invites. My AO is AN Best of luck!
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Same here! Fingers crossed for us all, I imagine we should be hearing back by the end of the week.
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R2 applicant here as well .. my AO is AN .. for your info, 8th May (Victory WWII) and 18th May (Ascension) are bank holidays in France. Good luck to all
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Just looking at the deadlines for various stages for INSEAD MBA program, it is interesting to see that final decision deadline for round 1 (12th may 2023) is many days after the deadline for round 2 application deadlines (20th april including buffer for recommendations and video interview). This means there is a period of multiple days where they have applicants of round 2 profiles and still compare them to round 1 people post interview. This is not the case between round 2 and 3. But it is the case for round 3 and 4. Seems to me the rounds 1&2 can be merged in terms of competition among candidates and rounds 3 &4 can be merged on similar grounds.
What do you guys think about this and how it may affect decisions? In my opinion and obviously nobody knows exactly, but people who got rejected after interviews in round 1 probably got dinged due to better profiles submitted in round 2? Just my hypothesis. Would be interested to know what you guys think.

If true, another inference could be that candidates selected for interviews in round 2 have a higher chance to convert because if this is true, they may have taken a place from someone in round 1 so they may be more desirable as a candidate?
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Given the size of the cohort I'm not quite sure it'd be optimized in terms of process to merge R1&R2 and R3&R4 .. I'm not quite sure they actually compare R1 & R2 candidates and hold on decisions for that since once R1 applicants get through the alumni interview process the application is presented to AC for decision and it's either a yes or no? I'm not quite sure AC would spare extra time to receive application for R2 to make a final decision (but maybe they do make a WL?) and just my own 2 cents but I don't think the AC will make such an arbitrage (i.e. to adjust ad strategy based on the quality of R1 applicant pool)
In general I think R1 gathers the most prepared candidates (or those initially targeting Aug intake) and over-presented nationals (like Indians & Chinese? I'm Chinese living in France - I actually heard a lot of people saying over-presented nationals should apply R1 & R2), R2 would be for slightly less prepared who cannot make it to R1 (that would be my case .. I had my GMAT at the end of March) or who want to avoid the fierce competition of R1 (also I think in light of global recession maybe more people would want to do an MBA to reshuffle?), R3 I guess is for people who get the idea to do an MBA (or actually finally decide to do an MBA) during the H1 of the year. R4 is just in a rush ...
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Yes, was just curious about the overlap only in pairs of rounds 1 and 2, & rounds 3 and 4. But it could be nothing and more likely as you said. I guess waiting for R2 results is just making me paranoid and just want the results for interview out xD

It is interesting to know though that final decisions for all R1 applicants have always come after the Round 2 deadline dates, same for rejections (both categories after interviews). That is what intrigued me most.
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Given the size of the cohort I'm not quite sure it'd be optimized in terms of process to merge R1&R2 and R3&R4 .. I'm not quite sure they actually compare R1 & R2 candidates and hold on decisions for that since once R1 applicants get through the alumni interview process the application is presented to AC for decision and it's either a yes or no? I'm not quite sure AC would spare extra time to receive application for R2 to make a final decision (but maybe they do make a WL?) and just my own 2 cents but I don't think the AC will make such an arbitrage (i.e. to adjust ad strategy based on the quality of R1 applicant pool)
In general I think R1 gathers the most prepared candidates (or those initially targeting Aug intake) and over-presented nationals (like Indians & Chinese? I'm Chinese living in France - I actually heard a lot of people saying over-presented nationals should apply R1 & R2), R2 would be for slightly less prepared who cannot make it to R1 (that would be my case .. I had my GMAT at the end of March) or who want to avoid the fierce competition of R1 (also I think in light of global recession maybe more people would want to do an MBA to reshuffle?), R3 I guess is for people who get the idea to do an MBA (or actually finally decide to do an MBA) during the H1 of the year. R4 is just in a rush ...
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I am also curious about how the looming recession is affecting people’s decision on applying to business schools.

Surprisingly, many of my peers opted not to apply this year as they were reluctant to give up their current jobs, especially there’s no guarantee to get something better post mba..

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Boy if you're also applying R2 I'd say let's wait .. I guess INSEAD AO/AC are still in the process for R1 decisions .. I think the whole idea of overlapping timelines is for extra time for the process to work well. I don't know what part of AO & AC is based in Singapore but if everything is based in France then I'd really stay calm and wait till the deadline of interview notice which is 19th May .. in France the month of May is just a warm up for summer break (almost every week of May you work only 4 days as there are lots of bank holidays in May, 1st May, 8th May, 18th May, etc .. and people are taking either the week off or make a "bridge" - in France we say "faire le pont" to have a long weekend .. half of my team is off this week .. even myself is taking several days next week) so let's be patient :)
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