suwax wrote:
Ok here's an interview question that I'd like to know your thoughts on: What other schools are you applying to?
How do you address this question if you are a Jan 2011 Insead interviewee and you also applied to US schools for Fall 2010 but didn't get in?
Its a tough one because you want to be honest but you don't want to give the impression you applied to insead as a last option.
Would appreciate your views.
You answer the question in the present tense. Being rejected from other schools for the class of Sep 2010 isnt relevant to your interviewers question.
It hurts you in two ways,
1) Your answer is irrelevant, and your not addressing the interviewers question.
2) You are letting your interviewer spring a doubt on your intellectual/professional capability.
Now if you are applying to other schools simultaneously its fine to accept that and let your interviewer know that you have other options in contention, but I doubt there is much of choice for R3 candidates here, so the question may not be really apply .