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Calling all INSEAD MBA Applicants: (January 2017 Intake) Class of 2017

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nigushto

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01 Aug 2016, 07:50

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prabhakar09

All the best for the interview today. ... Good luck

Thanks mate! Completed my second interview in my interviewers office. Both of my interviewers know each other

Interview started as a conversation with the usual questions on career progression, why MBA, why INSEAD. I was challenged on why INSEAD and the interviewer said he was not convinced with my answer ( guess trying to be a bad cop ). However, I think I managed to convince him towards the end, hopefully. This one lasted for around 40 mins but I think I was able to cover everything I wanted to so won't complain about the length. Well, I am done with my part and now the wait begins

All the best for tomorrow!

Cheers

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01 Aug 2016, 08:20

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All the best for the interview today. ... Good luck

Thanks mate! Completed my second interview in my interviewers office. Both of my interviewers know each other

All the best for tomorrow!

Cheers

Great. Seems all went well. Now my turn.

and thanks for the wishes.

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Updated on: 03 Aug 2016, 00:48

Originally posted by Hello_ on 02 Aug 2016, 02:45.
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Hello_

Just applied on the last day for round 4.

Only got 680 on GMAT 2 days prior the deadline (I changed my mind about the intake year 3 weeks ago due to various reasons), so I only spent 5 days working the GMAT.
But got some very strong Recommendation letters + good background. Finger crossed and I hope to meet some of you in 5 months !

680: it's 84-85 percentile. what was the breakup? normally they don't care much about the total score rather the quant and verbal percentile. if they are both 70+ shoot the application.

Recommendations: I doubt anyone goes it with a bad recommendation. but this is till good.

your main tool at this point of time would be your essays. Make them a super-strong one; a sparkling one. Highlight your background, unique experiences, extraordinary achievements. Some social activities.

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02 Aug 2016, 02:58

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Thanks mate. My GMAT is quite balanced and I have above 70+ on both Verbal / Quantitative.

For recommendations, I meant one is good - and I don't expect people to come with bad recommendations. But the second one from a C-level was stellar, stating I was ranked top 1% in the co, only staff to have a out-of-cycle promotion to recognise the remit of his responsibilities and that the CEO/founder of a 25B+ Silicon Valley co has asked our board to increase my exposure within their own company. Feels good when I did not really know about all of this :wink:

Good luck to everyone else !

damn! thank god you are applying for R4.

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Updated on: 29 Sep 2016, 11:30

Originally posted by Hello_ on 02 Aug 2016, 03:08.
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02 Aug 2016, 03:19

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damn! thank god you are applying for R4.

What does it change ?

Sorry I am realising I am really novice on everything related to the whole application process and its subtleties/fine details, so I just put a lot of focus over two weeks on the content to be provided and did not spend much time on forums / exchange groups

I intended to apply for Jan 18 intake, but some personal life changes made me reconsider that choice and just made the move one year earlier

What I mean to say was, it's good for us R3 applicants.

You have very Good GMAT score
Good recco
Good experience.

So don't think much on it. make the application.

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02 Aug 2016, 10:19

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So don't think much on it. make the application.

Thanks for the good vibes

Good luck to you too !

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03 Aug 2016, 00:50

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How is social life organised before the intake ?
Notably for people to get organised around apartment and so ?

Well there is MBA Connect but do people tend to create a FB Group for the class or something similar so people get to know each other before the actual intake ?

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03 Aug 2016, 03:45

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fb, whatsapp, slack, myspace, christianmingle, everything's covered. you'll be taken care of once you get in, no worries.

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03 Aug 2016, 04:51

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Yesterday, I had my second Interview. It was at a cafe and lasted about an hour.

It seemed to have gone well, there was no good-bad cop routine in either of the interviews.

fingers crossed.

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Yesterday, I had my second Interview. It was at a cafe and lasted about an hour.

It seemed to have gone well, there was no good-bad cop routine in either of the interviews.

fingers crossed.

Congrats !

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03 Aug 2016, 05:02

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Yesterday, I had my second Interview. It was at a cafe and lasted about an hour.

It seemed to have gone well, there was no good-bad cop routine in either of the interviews.

fingers crossed.

Congrats !

thanks hello.

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03 Aug 2016, 12:37

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Another question here. Could not find anything relevant browsing the web, and not sure starting a dedicated thread just for this is worth it.
Do you know what's the typical break duration between 2 periods ?
More like 1-2 days or a week ?

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03 Aug 2016, 13:22

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hello, firstly I want to say Hello to Hello ...

I heard the break between Periods is about 1 week.....

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Hi A-team, could I ask for a favour: would someone be able to post the breakdown of nationalities admitted, thank you!

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04 Aug 2016, 11:28

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2-3 days + a weekend.

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Hi guys,

As promised before, here's a full breakdown of the admits so far. Today is a very important day - 1) R2 first installment payments are due and 2) scholarship decisions for R2 are coming out. The list should change drastically in the next few weeks. So, take this with a pinch of salt.

Quick Facts:
Total admitted (or rather those who have registered on MBAConnect): 408
Number of countries represented: 61 (some diversity there)
Mean age: 28.4
Median age: 28

Nationality #
Indian 61
Chinese 33
American 33
Lebanese 23
Canadian 19
Brazilian 19
Spanish 16
German 15
French 14
Italian 12
Russian 12
Australian 11
British 9
South African 9
Singaporean 9
Portuguese 8
Turkish 8
Korean 7
Pakistani 6
Indonesian 6
Moroccan 6
Philippine 5
Japanese 5
Dutch 4
Swiss 4
Greek 4
Czech 3
Venezuelan 3
Malaysian 2
Peruvian 2
Nigerian 2
Egyptian 2
Polish 2
Cypriot 2
Vietnamese 2
Chilean 2
Bangladeshi 2
Lithuanian 2
Taiwanese 2
Georgian 1
Bruneian 1
Austrian 1
Mexican 1
Iraqi 1
Trinidad and Tobago 1
Slovak 1
Algerian 1
Nepalese 1
Belgian 1
Bulgarian 1
Romanian 1
Moldovan 1
Israeli 1
Guatemalan 1
Argentine 1
Croat 1
Uruguayan 1
Belarusian 1
New Zealander 1
Ukrainian 1
Thai 1
Grand Total 408

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05 Aug 2016, 02:15

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Already 408. what would happen to R3-R4 applicants?

And 61 Indians.

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05 Aug 2016, 02:23

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Already 408. what would happen to R3-R4 applicants?

And 61 Indians.

As I said, take this with a pinch of salt. I am sure, quite a few would drop out from that list after today. In a few weeks time, I am expecting to pull a completely different dataset from Connect.

Ohh and I forgot to add this bit:

# starting in FBL Campus: 241
# starting in SGP Campus: 167

Good Luck with all your applications guys.