ISB 2010-11 Applicants (GMAT Club) R1 bigoyal - Interview Experience anotherindian R2 mbaquestionmark alwynjoseph arvs212 saaquib riteshbindal herovijay ISBtarget Total number of applications submitted in R1: around 1700 Total number of applications submitted in R2: ___ ISB Essay Analysis indian-school-of-business-2010-11-thread-82576.html?view-post=641975#p641975 Inviting all the applicants for ISB 2010-11 programme, please join this thread. You can contribute your thoughts, queries, information, suggestions, comments whatever you feel would be helpful to all the applicants. Indian School of Business ISB is a very young school - it was founded to address the shortage of managers with proper management education in South Asia (India to be more specific). The concept of a management school was thought up a bunch of Indian businessmen lead by Rajat Gupta (currently serving as a special advisor on management reforms to the Secretary-General of the UN) in 1996. The focus of the school was to be on aspirants keen on working in India or Indian firms abroad. The first batch of students joined ISB in 2001 and passed out one year later. An executive MBA was soon launched thereafter. Hence it is not a very mature school - not even ten years old! Institution and Course Structure : The course itself is one year long and is known for its rigor. Each year is divided into eight terms - each term lasting 5-6 weeks in length. The first four terms are the core terms and have no electives. The second four terms are the elective courses - there are over 70 electives to choose from. As per the information session I attended last year, the number of contact hours at ISB with the teachers/professors was over 700 hours in the full course and can go to 900 hrs depending on the electives chosen. ISB works on the concept of visiting faculty. The number of permanent faculty is just 30. However, faculty from three schools: Wharton, LBS and Kellogg visit the school for one term and take up courses for the full term (i.e. 5-6 weeks). At anytime there are up to 100 faculty members teaching at ISB. This gives the school the advantage of a world class faculty. One year Post Graduate Programme in Management Key Facts (2009-10): Class Size: 579 Average GMAT: 716 Average Age: 27 Average Work Exp: 5 yrs Programme Expenses: Approx INR 20, 20,000 (approx USD 42,000) Admission Pre-requisites: https://www.isb.edu/pgp/AdmissionPre-requisites.Shtml What ISB looks for https://www.isb.edu/pgp/SelectionCriteria.Shtml Placement Highlights: https://www.isb.edu/pgp/Placement_Highlights.Shtml Admission Deadlines: Cycle 1 Application Deadline: September 15, 2009 Offer Decision On or before November 25, 2009 Acceptance Decision 15 days from the date of offer Cycle 2 Application Deadline: December 1, 2009 Offer Decision On or before February 15, 2010 Acceptance Decision 15 days from the date of offer ISB Information Sessions: The ISB Information Sessions to reach out to all prospective students. https://www.isb.edu/pgp/IndiaLocations.Shtml ISB plans to increase its intake. As per a local newspaper, the school intends to increase its intake to 750 students for the full time course by 2015 or so. Hence, the intake can be expected to increase slowly every year. Current Students Blogs: https://pulyanithinks.blogspot.com/ Outside ISB : ISB is located on the outskirts of the capital city of Andhra Pradesh: Hyderabad. It is one of the largest cities of India (comes in the top six). It is the meeting point of the Hindu and Muslim cultures and thus has a cosmopolitan feel to it. Known for its spicy cuisine (biryani anyone?) and is now a rapidly developing city with many software firms like Microsoft, Insosys, Wipro, TCS etc. located there. The campus is located in Gachibowli, Hyderabad. It enjoys the locational advantage of being close to the campuses of Microsoft, Infosys and Wipro. Pics: The main building - the Academic Block https://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h229/egress63/04_isb-1.jpg https://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h229/egress63/Ind_school_of_business.jpg https://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h229/egress63/ISBentrance1.jpg Questions? Fire away!

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well same here guys planning to apply.. yet to take my gmat..

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They have started accepting applications for 2012-2013 from April 6th, 2011.
How does the process work. First come first serve or they gonna look at all the applications at once and notify people accordingly.
Let me know if any one has any thoughts.
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Well, I am an Indian guy working as a developer for a top software firm in Delhi NCR. I have been working for a year now and have a GMAT score of 730. I intend to apply for ISB R2 for the year 2012 (deadline's this November).
Any stuff which I should bear in mind while applying. I know that my work-ex is very less and have a very typical profile- nothing too fancy.

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hi ,
i prepared for gmat for 30 days adn scored 530 in gmat.(quant: 44, verbal :19)

school records: 10th-86 %
12th- 80%
engineering :marine engineering :91% from BITS-pilani
work ex- 4 years as marine eng.

i studied only from Official guide 13 and only the gmat prep test.

what should i do ? i was also preparing for cat at the same time and now i am nowhere..
should i apply to isb? will they even consider me after my gmat score?

should i join a coaching name achievers point in pune ? for better result
what all books should i use?

its my life time dream to be an enterpreneur after studying from ISB....
please suggest me i am already 24 years old ....

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