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04 May 2026, 00:37
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Hi rohitb007
Your work experience is on the lower side, so you need a strong career progression narrative, and you will have to work extra hard to justify why this is the right time for an MBA. The 655 on the GMAT is not super convincing. At ISB, you need an edge, which usually comes to candidates in your experience group who either come from consulting backgrounds (exposure to multiple clients/industries) or those who have worked in fast-paced startup environments with unique exposure to how decisions are made at the highest levels. So what is your unique story here?
ISB sees a lot of pre-MBA techies/engineers applying to the program.
My recommendation is that you latch on to a uniqueness in your area of work and build your entire application around that. You will have to unpack your experiences and reconstruct them in a way that shows that working on high-impact projects has given you much more hands-on experience, the opportunity to engage with leaders within the industry, greater experiential maturity, and a stronger capability to contextualize business problems related to your field than most young applicants who apply. Always remember that ISB is spoilt for choice and won't blink an eye before rejecting an applicant who has an area for improvement.
Feel free to have a personalised one to one discussion regarding your application strategy with your current situation.
Aanchal Sahni (INSEAD MBA alumna, former INSEAD MBA admissions interviewer)
Founder, MBAGuideConsulting
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanchal-sahni-83b00819/ |WEBSITE: https://mbaguideconsulting.com/| Message(WA): +91 9971200927
Your work experience is on the lower side, so you need a strong career progression narrative, and you will have to work extra hard to justify why this is the right time for an MBA. The 655 on the GMAT is not super convincing. At ISB, you need an edge, which usually comes to candidates in your experience group who either come from consulting backgrounds (exposure to multiple clients/industries) or those who have worked in fast-paced startup environments with unique exposure to how decisions are made at the highest levels. So what is your unique story here?
ISB sees a lot of pre-MBA techies/engineers applying to the program.
My recommendation is that you latch on to a uniqueness in your area of work and build your entire application around that. You will have to unpack your experiences and reconstruct them in a way that shows that working on high-impact projects has given you much more hands-on experience, the opportunity to engage with leaders within the industry, greater experiential maturity, and a stronger capability to contextualize business problems related to your field than most young applicants who apply. Always remember that ISB is spoilt for choice and won't blink an eye before rejecting an applicant who has an area for improvement.
Feel free to have a personalised one to one discussion regarding your application strategy with your current situation.
Aanchal Sahni (INSEAD MBA alumna, former INSEAD MBA admissions interviewer)
Founder, MBAGuideConsulting
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanchal-sahni-83b00819/ |WEBSITE: https://mbaguideconsulting.com/| Message(WA): +91 9971200927
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Are the essay topics same as last year?
04 May 2026, 00:45
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