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INSEAD 2012 - Calling All Applicants 05 Oct 2011, 15:06
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Is anyone else experiencing challenges with filling in the electronic forms for the scholarship applications?
I keep getting a session timeout when I try to save my progress and I do so at rather short intervals..
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I am having trouble registering.. Keep on getting a Java script error message.
Knew I shouldn't have procrastinated...

Are there many R3ers applying for the Prodigy Finance loan?
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INSEAD 2012 - Calling All Applicants 06 Oct 2011, 21:12
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Wow! That is quite an interview.

I was very surprised he asked you #3 and 4 considering you don't have a Finance background. But the fact that it went for 2 hours might be a positive sign. Some folks take the interviewing process too seriously. On the other end of the spectrum I know a guy whose interview lasted all of 30 seconds. The interviewer asked him, "Do you drink?" - cue party for 4-5 hours.

You know what they say, when life gives you lemons...ask for tequila!

Good luck man.

IEsailor
Hey guys, finished off with my 2nd interview today and it was a disaster ! The interviewer came 1 hour late after postponing the interview 2 times and not showing up the first time and he clearly had not read my INSEAD application and CV. Luckily i was carrying a copy of my CV which i presented to him.

Well the interview lasted just over 2 hours. I am a guy who has worked as a navigator on merchant ship for most of my career and then switched to a shipping/logistics role last year with a trading company.

Well the interviewer went through my CV and then started asking question

1.) Give me your career progression till date.
2.) Tell me about yourself as in where you grew up and what environment.
3.) Achievements during sailing on merchant ships.
4.) Why INSEAD
5.) Why MBA
6.) Current Job description.

Then the game began :

He started giving me financial situations as in
1.) If i invest 5 million $ in your company then what is the ROI ?
2.) How do you think your company can increase its revenue ?
3.) Then he gave me a situation where in he gave me tons of numbers and asked to calculate the profit after taxes and utility charges. He asked me to take a pen and paper and actually calculate and show to him.( Now i have never been in any sort of a financial role but can ship any cargo from any where in the world or navigate any ship through pirate infested water but finance NO ! I told him this but he kept pushing for an answer. )
4.) Then he asked me my post MBA goals and then asked me the ROI in the industry that i want to work in post my MBA - Marine Chartering/Ship broking.

All in all it was a nightmare. For a guy who has difficulty reading his company's quarterly financial results this was quite a handful.

Well my hopes are now down the drain !!!
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INSEAD 2012 - Calling All Applicants 06 Oct 2011, 23:55
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No calls this week? Anyone?

Posted from my mobile device
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INSEAD 2012 - Calling All Applicants 09 Oct 2011, 22:41
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Hello everyone!

Could anybody please check the number of addmited students for the next intake and also the number of Brazilian people?

I am still on the waitlist but it seems that hasn't moved at all since R1.

Many thanks in advance
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INSEAD 2012 - Calling All Applicants 11 Oct 2011, 06:11
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Hey guys, finished off with my 2nd interview today and it was a disaster ! The interviewer came 1 hour late after postponing the interview 2 times and not showing up the first time and he clearly had not read my INSEAD application and CV. Luckily i was carrying a copy of my CV which i presented to him.

Well the interview lasted just over 2 hours. I am a guy who has worked as a navigator on merchant ship for most of my career and then switched to a shipping/logistics role last year with a trading company.

Well the interviewer went through my CV and then started asking question

1.) Give me your career progression till date.
2.) Tell me about yourself as in where you grew up and what environment.
3.) Achievements during sailing on merchant ships.
4.) Why INSEAD
5.) Why MBA
6.) Current Job description.

Then the game began :

He started giving me financial situations as in
1.) If i invest 5 million $ in your company then what is the ROI ?
2.) How do you think your company can increase its revenue ?
3.) Then he gave me a situation where in he gave me tons of numbers and asked to calculate the profit after taxes and utility charges. He asked me to take a pen and paper and actually calculate and show to him.( Now i have never been in any sort of a financial role but can ship any cargo from any where in the world or navigate any ship through pirate infested water but finance NO ! I told him this but he kept pushing for an answer. )
4.) Then he asked me my post MBA goals and then asked me the ROI in the industry that i want to work in post my MBA - Marine Chartering/Ship broking.

All in all it was a nightmare. For a guy who has difficulty reading his company's quarterly financial results this was quite a handful.

Well my hopes are now down the drain !!!
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Holy crap that's insane!

Both of my interviews were incredibly pleasant conversations where we swapped stories and life experiences.

You must have run into an incredibly difficult alum.
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INSEAD 2012 - Calling All Applicants 11 Oct 2011, 06:13
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Have R3 applicants started hearing back after their interviews? This is going to be a grating week...
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Still looking forward to it....
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INSEAD 2012 - Calling All Applicants 11 Oct 2011, 07:33
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Still waiting..
Workload at the office has finally eased up a bit and I find myself constantly thinking and waiting for the call! >.<

My coordinator's last mail was that I would be mailed on the final decision. >.<
Am I thinking too much because she used the word 'mailed', rather than call?
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INSEAD 2012 - Calling All Applicants 11 Oct 2011, 07:37
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Really? I thought they would call.
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I read in the forums that they call selected candidates and mail dinged ones... Hence, the concern...
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That's what I thought.

What about the candidates on the waiting list?
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No idea.. I'm an r3 candidate.

I suppose, they'd call too? Are you on the waitlist?
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INSEAD 2012 - Calling All Applicants 11 Oct 2011, 08:05
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Nope. I'm a R3 too, waiting for the final answer...

If it is a positive answer it should be tomorrow or Thursday I guess...
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INSEAD 2012 - Calling All Applicants 11 Oct 2011, 08:13
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All the best then... :)
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All the best....! :wink:
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Count me in among the R1 crowd as well.
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I am a round 3 applicant too. Best of luck to you all. I hope the call comes in soon ;)
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Hello everyone!

Could anybody please check the number of addmited students for the next intake and also the number of Brazilian people?

I am still on the waitlist but it seems that hasn't moved at all since R1.

Many thanks in advance
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Hi Fmarini,

I feel your pain... There are 16 Brazilians, however 2 are not really Brazilians, seems to be people with dual citizenship (more Lebanese then Brazilian). So, out of the 14, there are 4 girls, 10 boys. 8 (3 girls) of us going to Fonty and 6 to Singapore. And you are right, ever since I got accepted nothing changed on this list. I really hope you can make it and have a beer with us on campus!

Best,
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INSEAD 2012 - Calling All Applicants 11 Oct 2011, 14:58
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Fmarini
Hello everyone!

Could anybody please check the number of addmited students for the next intake and also the number of Brazilian people?

I am still on the waitlist but it seems that hasn't moved at all since R1.

Many thanks in advance

Hi Fmarini,

I feel your pain... There are 16 Brazilians, however 2 are not really Brazilians, seems to be people with dual citizenship (more Lebanese then Brazilian). So, out of the 14, there are 4 girls, 10 boys. 8 (3 girls) of us going to Fonty and 6 to Singapore. And you are right, ever since I got accepted nothing changed on this list. I really hope you can make it and have a beer with us on campus!

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Hi Jujuba!

Thanks a lot!!! Hopefully I'll join you all there.

I am 100% available for Fonty or Singapore... I love France and heard the best things about Singapore.

Great times are coming!

Best,
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