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Anyone with Isabelle Ramos as AO has received interview invite?
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Just got interview invite from AO CT. I'm based in NY.
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My AO is Anne Nigl, and I received an invite last week FYI. Located in London.
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I have done both interview. Both interviewer were from a very different industry.

The first one was with a European in a coffee shop and it was challenging, a lot of difficult questions were asked. With hindsight, I feel that it could have been better but I think it generally went well.

The second interview was with an Asian, carried out in his office and was very short. It lasted 15-20 minutes and the interviewer clearly had other things to do after. He asked me only my professional goals, my GMAT score and chatted about his own INSEAD experience. The talk was pleasant and relaxed.

There seems to be a lot of variability in the interviews. I hope that this is taken in account in the evaluation process. Does anyone have some inside information on what are our chances if we are already selected for interview?

I applied in R1, based in Asia.
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Anyone with Isabelle Ramos as AO has received interview invite?

Yes, I got one yesterday. Although I haven't been given the names and contact details on my interviewers. I am told that they are in the process of selecting who will interview me. Is that common for other folks as well?
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I am told that they are in the process of selecting who will interview me. Is that common for other folks as well?

Yes it is. My interviewers were selected after around one week.
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Hi Guys,

Did anyone from India who applied in R2 get interview call?

Hi my addmission officer is also HHanny stefanie. I am also from India but havent recieved the interview invite. getting nervous here.
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My AO is also Isabelle Ramos and haven't heard anything yet... hitting refresh on my inbox has become a compulsion!
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R2 applicant. Just got a Ding from JS via email......So disappointed
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Anyone heard from JS yet? Still 3 days to go but given that I am a reapplicant, cant help getting jittery (the feeling when u see a ding email from the only school u want yr mba from is not, to say the least, good)
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BRanonymous
Anyone with Isabelle Ramos as AO has received interview invite?

Yes, I got one yesterday. Although I haven't been given the names and contact details on my interviewers. I am told that they are in the process of selecting who will interview me. Is that common for other folks as well?

OK. TKS
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R2 Applicant. Received interview invite earlier today. My AO is JS. I'm based in Dhaka. Best of luck to all applicants :)
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Hi Guys,

Did anyone from India who applied in R2 get interview call?

Hi my addmission officer is also HHanny stefanie. I am also from India but havent recieved the interview invite. getting nervous here.

This wait is painful.. Getting worried day by day
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Received invite. R2 Applicant. Waiting for alum interviewer contacts.
I know this is extremely hard - but try and stay patient till 13th November, which is likely the day bulk invites go out.

I really wish schools didn't do rolling invites. Would save us all the nervous weeks (which seem like months!)
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Received invite. R2 Applicant. Waiting for alum interviewer contacts.

gamesfreak congrats! Who is your AO?
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Yes, I got one yesterday. Although I haven't been given the names and contact details on my interviewers. I am told that they are in the process of selecting who will interview me. Is that common for other folks as well?

Congrats! Yes, it's likely that you won't get your assigned interviewers till later, bearing in mind that they're still processing applications currently for R2. You'll get a second email when they've found interviewers for you.
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Completed my second INSEAD Interview with an alumni who was an investment banker this morning over the phone. We actually had a face to face for an hour on Monday and then ran out of time so he scheduled in a follow up phone interview. So in total we spoke for almost 2 hours and I didn't even get time to ask questions!

He was very very thorough and covered practically everything that you expect from an MBA interview and then some. Aside from the usual walk through CV, why MBA, why INSEAD, he also questioned all the steps I took in my CV. Many of the questions he asked was around thought processes and what I was feeling when I made various decisions which was a bit different. He also asked what I was feeling towards getting an MBA and what reservations I had and what my greatest fears in doing the MBA would be, which were questions that were a bit of a curve ball.

Interestingly he asked specifically for me to describe an entrepreneurial situation and clarified that it could be within the workplace. Thankfully I actually have a hobby side business, but I think I would have struggled if I didn't have an "obvious" experience. He also asked for specific examples of when I made a good judgement and when I made a bad judgement, which was a bit different from strengths and weaknesses (he asked about those too). I basically used up every single story I had pre-prepared in this interview and had to come up with some on the spot.

That being said, I'm positive he'll give me a great recommendation because at the end he summed up all my strengths and said that he thought I'd do very well at INSEAD and that he hoped I would pick INSEAD over LBS if I got accepted to both :) Phew!
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