R2 Applicant. Completed my interviews a few days back. Flew from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka for the interviews.
The first one was quite encouraging. The interviewer skipped the conventional questions and directly asked 3 questions which he had in mind about my application.
1. To detail out my long term plan
2. How do I plan to overcome the weakness I had mentioned in my application (he also gave some advice)
3. A particular extra curricular activity in my application which wasn't clear to him
After that we talked about common interests and he also gave me lots of tips on how to navigate through INSEAD.
The second interview wasn't as well as I expected. The interviewer was from a different background and I couldn't convincingly answer a lot of his questions. Though he acknowledged that he didn't expect me to know it all, but it is essential to master them before I step into INSEAD. He told me that I was the youngest applicant he had interviewed and also dissected my short term goal and my MBA financing plan.
While the first interviewer told me to party like never before at INSEAD the second interviewer told me to strictly focus on my grades and networking. Seems conflicting??
Lastly, both of them gave me great travel tips which helped me out in my 4 day Sri Lanka tour following my interviews.
Best of luck to everyone!!