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INSEAD Decision Tracker & Historical Admit Data | Add INSEAD to your profile WELCOME! So excited you are joining us for this journey called applying for INSEAD. I hope we can all support each other and make this an active thread. Very open to ideas and suggestions on ways to add value to your experience here. Wishing success for each of you. Cheers, Farrell INSEAD MBA Deadlines Deadline for complete application Interview decision notification* Final decision notification* R1 18 September 2019 18 October 2019 22 November 2019 R2 06 November 2019 06 December 2019 24 January 2020 R3 15 January 2020 14 February 2020 20 March 2020 R4 26 February 2020 27 March 2020 30 April 2020 *Interview and final decisions generally start trickling in a week before the deadline. Note: thread participants, please relay word limits when new application opens Need an INSEAD profile Evaluation? Post it here > International Work Experience or International Movitation? What INSEAD Looks in its Applicants? 2019-2020 INSEAD MBA Recommendation Questions Admission Trends at INSEAD: Analysis of GMATClub Applicant Data Essay Prompts: Job Description Essays Essay 1: Briefly summarise your current (or most recent) job, including the nature of work, major responsibilities, and where relevant, employees under your supervision, size of budget, clients/products and results achieved. (short answer) Essay 2: What would be your next step in terms of position if you were to remain in the same company? (short answer) Essay 3: Please give a full description of your career since graduating from university. Describe your career path with the rationale behind your choices. (short answer) Essay 4: Discuss your short and long term career aspirations with or without an MBA from INSEAD. (short answer) Motivation Essays Essay 1: Give a candid description of yourself (who are you as a person), stressing the personal characteristics you feel to be your strengths and weaknesses and the main factors which have influenced your personal development, giving examples when necessary. (500 words max.) Essay 2: Describe the achievement of which you are most proud and explain why. In addition, describe a situation where you failed. How did these experiences impact your relationships with others? Comment on what you learned. (400 words max.) Essay 3: Tell us about an experience where you were significantly impacted by cultural diversity, in a positive or negative way. (300 words max.) Essay 4: Describe all types of extra-professional activities in which you have been or are still involved for a significant amount of time (clubs, sports, music, arts, politics, etc). How are you enriched by these activities? (300 words max.)

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Interesting,did your profile change between R4 and R3, in terms of test score, job title, or international experience?
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Quick question - I applied to INSEAD in R4 in last cycle and got dinged after interview - now accepted to interview in R3. Should I mention my R4 application when talking to the interviewers?

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So I got dinged last cycle by IMD and INSEAD after interviews. Now got offers from all schools I applied to incl. INSEAD.
Main changes:
- GMAT from 640 to 710
- Better prep in terms of my goals
- Increased ranking in Bachelor and Master (was not aware I am #1 of class for both - put in top 10% before)
- essays exactly the same

No Changes in job/ international experience what so ever. There was not so much time in between R4 last year and R3 this year.

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Do any R3 admits have any information on scholarship decisions from INSEAD? As I understand they come out a week after admission, which should be around today, no?

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Big congrats!!

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Interesting,did your profile change between R4 and R3, in terms of test score, job title, or international experience?
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Quick question - I applied to INSEAD in R4 in last cycle and got dinged after interview - now accepted to interview in R3. Should I mention my R4 application when talking to the interviewers?

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So I got dinged last cycle by IMD and INSEAD after interviews. Now got offers from all schools I applied to incl. INSEAD.
Main changes:
- GMAT from 640 to 710
- Better prep in terms of my goals
- Increased ranking in Bachelor and Master (was not aware I am #1 of class for both - put in top 10% before)
- essays exactly the same

No Changes in job/ international experience what so ever. There was not so much time in between R4 last year and R3 this year.

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Nope, March 27th so there is still hope!CharlieBrown22

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Do any R3 admits have any information on scholarship decisions from INSEAD? As I understand they come out a week after admission, which should be around today, no?

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Update to my status! Just got changed from waitlisted of R2 to accepted! Can someone send me a link to the Whatsapp group?

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I applied R4 and I am doing the alumni interviews this and next week, and in case I get in I'm absolutely terrified that because of covid part of the program will be done online. I'm giving up a six figures job and aim at the Singapore campus to ideally stay long term (am European), I don't want to throw all that money to sit in my room for months taking online classes / virtual group calls with people I never met in person.

I'm guessing that (in case of acceptance) trying to defer my intake from 21J to 21D will be a no-no, and same for delaying the first down payment to see more clarity in the covid situation (not that a month would help but still)?

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It seems that Singapore is doing a lot better with this than most countries, yes it's possible but I think it's unlikely. I will agree, it's such a short program, even a couple months is a loss. We are all kind of bonding over a common problem, it might not be catastrophic to meet over Zoom. There are some positive reviews about it, greater participation, in some odd way it might create more intimacy seeing everyone face to face, if the classes are small. Anyways, is there a way you can further your goal with LinkedIn, online networking, like pre-pave those relationships via Skype and all that, before meeting in person? There is so much that one can do before having feet on campus.

That said, if you feel it's too risky of a proposition, I would encourage you to mention this to your AO, the opportunity cost and why virtual might put you in a distinctly negative position, and see what they have to say. I would do it before the interviews, so you don't waste anyone's time.

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I applied R4 and I am doing the alumni interviews this and next week, and in case I get in I'm absolutely terrified that because of covid part of the program will be done online. I'm giving up a six figures job and aim at the Singapore campus to ideally stay long term (am European), I don't want to throw all that money to sit in my room for months taking online classes / virtual group calls with people I never met in person.

I'm guessing that (in case of acceptance) trying to defer my intake from 21J to 21D will be a no-no, and same for delaying the first down payment to see more clarity in the covid situation (not that a month would help but still)?

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Hello,

Is there any watsapp group running for Sep 2020 intake candidates (fountainbleau or singapore campus) or chat group etc. I moved from WL in R2 last month.
Thanks for the help!

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Have any R4 applicants heard back?

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From the decision tracker, I see that one applicant, who applied in R4, from Switzerland got an interview invite on April 14th.

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From the decision tracker, I see that one applicant, who applied in R4, from Switzerland got an interview invite on April 14th.

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That was me and I got my acceptance email today

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Congratulations! Can you share your location and when you finished your interviews?

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Congratulations! Can you share your location and when you finished your interviews?

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I'm a EU citizen, and I had the last interview about two weeks ago!
I will be based in Singapore but at this point I don't even know if I can get a student visa given covid, and I really can't see how 4 months from today everything is back to normal. It would kinda suck very much to spend a year and 150k on an online program. Anyway the acceptance deadline is end of May (which is also my deadline to quit my job if I want to leave by end July), I will start all the preparations but will wait to pull the "no-return" trigger.

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Yup i have heard today via email I got accepted!
Now let's see how the COVID situation pans out...

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With the evolving situation of Covid 19, it will be difficult to get visa. Has the school communicated anything for sep intake? Will the classes be online? Is there any option to defer?

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With the evolving situation of Covid 19, it will be difficult to get visa. Has the school communicated anything for sep intake? Will the classes be online? Is there any option to defer?

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there is a webinar today at 12 CET to which all 21J admits were invited - don't know if it was etended to 21D

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Have any R4 applicants heard back today? Anxiously waiting over here

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