FROM IESE MBA Director's Blog: Green Space in Barcelona: Parc de la Ciutadella

In Barcelona, cobblestones and narrow winding streets are always within arm’s reach. Green space, on the other hand, is a little more difficult to find. Parc de la Ciutadella is a large and centrally... Click on the headline to read more

Hi , did you got dinged after the interview or before that

Best of luck for your other applications.

Still waiting

Got dinged too, indian male, same time.

not feeling good about this year

Thanks for your kind words, just the initial disappointment to the reject letter. Best of luck to everyone else throughout the process

FROM IESE MBA Director's Blog: “Each one of us has something that makes us unique”, Mariano Torrente (MBA’16)

This interview belongs to the blog series featuring interviews with current and future MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at the IESE MBA Program. And now, introducing Mariano... Click on the headline to read more

Please, describe the interview and questions!

Yeah sure. I don't have much time today to go into detail but my process interview was with Patrik Wallen (works mostly with Consulting track students) and was focused around my work experience (bc I am getting a PhD in neurobio and do not have much formal business training). But Patrik was a great interviewer, and, like most comments I've read online, the interview was largely a "fit" interview.. about why I chose the path I took, why I think getting an MBA from IESE would help me in my career, what stands out to me about IESE or why it's right for me.. that sort of thing.

I just googled "IESE MBA interview questions" and a lot of links came up. GMAT Club won't let me post links yet, but if I have time this weekend, I'll do my best to post some of the recurring questions (sorry, big presentation tmrw).

Best of luck, everyone. Any other people going to NY, we should all grab a drink the night before and night of Assessment Day.

1.tell me about your childhood & who influences you a lot?
2.why did you choose your major in university?
3.what kind of activity or club you join after work?
4.biggest challenge
5.leadership experience
6.use 4 words to describe yourself
7.teamwork experience
8.use 1 min to introduce yourself to the adcom
9.talk about your cross cultural experience
10.your biggest weakness that you can never win others
11.why MBA / why now / why IESE
12.how do you finance yourself
13.long term & short term goal
14. Name 3 companies you want to work after MBA
15. What if you are not admitted?
16.how do you define success?
17. What do you believe in your life?
18. Any questions?

I'm in Korea to do F2F and just finish it. Hope someone will fly to Singapore
as well and we can have a meet. My adcom is Dongmei Song. I haven't received the assessment day email.

Good morning everyone! My name is Mario (Italian) and I wish to get admitted for the IESE MBA 15 Class!!

I am new to the gmatclub forum. I have read the previous posts and I found them very useful in getting a clearer idea about the way the IESE admission process actually goes through!

BTW... I expect (hopefully) to complete my application form (including taking the GMAT test, scheduled on the 17th of April) only by R4.

My main concern, as you can easily understand, is the timing of the application (I have no chances other than R4) so I would like to ask you if applying for the R4 drops the probability to get admitted down if compared to applications submitted during R1 2 and 3.

Moreover, since I need to do it in a rush...do you think that three months might be enough for completing the application?

Many thanks in advance!!!

Thank you for the advice!

I am quite sure that applying earlier would have been much better, even though i do not have any idea about the number of applications the usually receive during R4 (I hope a great number of applications will be submitted during the previous rounds, thus smoothing the competition for R4)

This being said, I would take the chance to ask some other questions regarding the application (I will try to be very synthetic):

GMAT: my target score is 700 (starting from diagnostic test and some time spent on studying it a few months ago); however, given the complexity of the test, do you think that such a score might strenghten my application (probably I need to do so) or GMAT is not that relevant if compared to other topics (professional experience, age, etc..)
TOEFL: I have double nationality (Italian and Australian; I reckon that probably, being Australian, I could be given a "waver", thus avoiding useless waste of time in getting the certification
Recommendations: as you know, do they give more relevance to academic or professional profiles?

Maybe I am getting annoying I know, but I am just trying to get as much information as possible before diving in the application process!

Thank you very much again!!!