INSEAD SEPTEMBER 2011 Intake

Got my no an hour back

Good Morning in France. Ding for me

all dings today, eh??

Anybody based in Canada heard anything??

Posted from my mobile device

Ding email received at 4:00 pm India time!

Yeah that would be me.... got a ding couple of hours back ....

Guys, I did it!!!! Was refreshing my email every minute!!! Phewwwwww

Posted from my mobile device

Just got an invite ... patience pays.. anyone else from UK / Western Europe also in the same boat??

"Preselected" - does it mean anything? I guess its just another term for i/v

Does your co-ordinator come back to you with names and interview dates or a selection is given for us to approach and schedule?

Excited.. is undermined word for what I feel at the moment....

my e-mail has same time stamp as urs too...

Congrats and good luck for the next stage...

Just got my email with an interview invitation (2pm French time)

Best of luck to everyone!

I just got my invite too. happyls, I am in Toronto, where are you located in Canada?

ding for me guys...lbs i/v invite has softened the blow a lil
gt a mail at 3 PM IST...tht works out to 1130 France time...gd luck to all R1 invites and future round guys...cheers

Congrats and good luck to you too!!

Does anyone have a sense of what the admission rate is for those who make it to the interview? Judging by postings here seems like they must have been already selective with interview intiations...

i got the interview

super excited!!

It's after 7pm in France- I'm guessing that's all she wrote...anyone not get an invite/ding?

If you use the Jan 2010 Intake thread as your point of reference, I'd say very good. By no means are the numbers below fully representative of the class, but they are interesting nonetheless:

Received Interview: 42
Directly Admitted (excl. W/L): 28
= 67% Interview-to-Direct-Admit Conversion

Of the 33% (=14) interviewed but not Directly Admitted:
Waitlist: 11
Assume "no admit" (search user post history, etc): 3

Of the 11 on the Waitlist:
Admitted: 6
Assume "no admit": 5

= 81% Total Interviewed-to-Admit Conversion, though the waitlist is underrepresented (also in real life most likely, such that it is too unreliable)


Now, there was a large group of posters who chimed in for the first time to report positive news, and there was understandably not an opposite group of posters reporting dings out of the blue for the first time, so this may have swayed the numbers. My "confidence" in percentage terms is between 50-67% (direct admit only) and 70-80% including waitlist. INSEAD has been known to mention "above 50%" as their own interview-to-admit conversion rate.

I'm sure INSEAD's own, closely guarded figures will show something slightly different (what happens when you have 500 people reporting back, not just 42), but I'm also sure that they are not too far off given the school's reluctance to publish figures at all (IMO b/c they would not indicate the kind of exclusivity shown by e.g. HBS).

Take the numbers for what they're worth and with a very large grain of salt. Obviously don't go in to your interviews thinking you have it made...but know that you have made it past the big cull.