IE business school MiM 2015

Congratulations Sujay !

Hi all,

I am proud to be a product of India but I presently live and work in Singapore.

With an aim to grow as a generalist in the corp world, I am sincerely approaching earning my MBA degree seriously .

I heard about ie decision day in about 2 weeks, hence thought to leverage that opportunity. So I registered for ieGAT on 4th May and interview scheduled on 6th May

I registered for the decision day and started preparing for the ieGAT scheduled in 2 weeks time. Given the fact I have never prepared/appeared for GMAT, I spent maximum about a couple of hours a day to brush my quant using online free mocks and resources


- 4th May: ieGAT:
I had only two weeks ahead of my ieGAT. I have never really prepared for a GMAT in the past. So with the little time I got after my busy work schedule I did brush up some quants and verbal. In the test I did ok particularly in the diagrammatic section however the Quant+verbal ate much of my time. A day later I got an email from the adcom team that I am below global average.However understand that ieGAT is one of the selection criteria and not the only selection criteria. And hence I prepared for the interview which was scheduled one day after my Test(6th May), considering that was the only solid opportunity to make a greater positive impact on the adcom

- 6th May, Interview:

Before getting to the interview part. A brief introduction about me to put things in to perspective. I have 12 years of work experience out of which I have significant amount of international experience. Through out my career I have held several senior level roles.Hence I was confident about the interview and hopeful that my professional progress may spin positively.

So here I would like to share some questions( that is on top of my mind), which prospect students preparing for the interview might find useful

Duration: 90 Mins

Adcom to me:-

- Tell me about your academic?
- Tell me about your first job?
- What are the major challenges in my current role?
- Why MBA now?
- Why ie?
- Why ie should have met me?
- Where do you want to see yourself 5 years from now?
- Name an animal that best represents you?
- Name a celebrity? Here I answered my first Boss is my role model and hence he is my celebrity
- What is the burning question you would ask your first boss if you see him again?
- What do you fear if you meet a career therapist?
- If my childhood me can see me how I am today, what he will feel?
- Considering you would not know what happens in 10 years makes you concerned or excited?
- What makes you out of your comfort zone?
- In a team would you prefer to be a team player or team leader?

Me to Adcom:-

- How many practical case studies would I get to work during my tenure? (Adcom said appx 200 ~300 real life case studies for 15 months duration)
- Given my experience and my career objective, how do you think I should leverage this degree?
- By the end of this MBA, what are the qualities I should have attained for which ie would feel proud about me?
- Can you tell me one quality (or) qualities of mine that according to you might have played a vital role for me to get selected? ( I explained the reason I am asking this Q which was : " As a professional I seldom get evaluated as a professional from a 3rd person, so the feedback will help me understand what professional quality of mine stands out so I can enrich and also improvise other qualities as well)

Throughout the interview I was confident and had maintained my composure. I articulated my replies in a clear and concise manner. I paid attention to my choice of words used in my conversation.

Now that I have done everything I could based on my capacity, I now sincerely await adcom's final result

If things gets through I would join Sep 2015 in Executive MBA

I wish every one a very good luck

**Will post my next update in the next 3 weeks

In the meantime if any one has any questions, ask , happy to answer if I know and I am sure of

Good luck and cheers!
-Raja