hsourabh
I got an admit mail from IE business school!
No news so far from my coordinator from INSEAD...so guess time to bid adieu to the WL..
Hsourabh
congratulations! IE seems to be a good school, based on the rankings. Also the weather should be nicer in Spain.
I browsed a few forums and blogs of insead waitlisters and figured the following:
- people either don't report on admits from WL after Oct-15, or there's really few of them
- major WL movements (rejections mostly) happen in Dec-10 - Dec-15.... obviously it's when it becomes clear who pays and who doesn't.
- almost nothing happens in October and November, despite there's a deadline on Deposit for R3 admits. It seems everyone from R3 pays.
- Some of the payments must happen not on Dec-11, but before that - on Nov-26. So if you decide to press the decision out of adcom ASAP - that's the date.
- Some re-applicants who previously were waitlisted re-applied, but weren't all successful - some were aplpied, some weren't and some WL-ed again. That's in contrast to something one might think: if I'm WL-ed before in R3, I certainly will get in later in R1 or R2.
Otherwise chances seem to be too slim, especially given that there're 506 admits already. I would recommend to change the frame of mind from "
there's still a chance" to "
there's almost no chances, I will stay on the waitlist just in case, otherwise I'm entirely on my plan B"
Good luck to everyone (and... the waitlister ARE the real stars!

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