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17 Aug 2015, 04:28
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The information was about how they consider GMAT score for each individual. I already gave the link on the previous page, here is the quote
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Each individual's GMAT score is determined by matching best parts from different exams. I doubt that they will do recomputation for reporting purposes. If you have any official documents about their GMAT reporting methodology you are welcome to post it here.
To be frank, lately, I became suspicious even about INSEAD official reports. They use tricks and people fall victim to their tricks. I did two times. One trick was using couple of years old exchange rate. Another is the salary reporting. All top-tier b-schools report salary and bonuses separately. So, when I (or any applicant for that matter) looked at the INSEAD report I naturally thought that the first number is the base salary. And on previous page, I was comparing the INSEAD overall salary with the base salary of LBS. Not many people are very attentive when reading different reports.
At Poet & Quants there is an article about INSEAD employment report.
https://poetsandquants.com/2015/07/13/in ... bs-report/
That is where I learned about my mistake. Quote from there
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25 Aug 2015, 11:31
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Hey Congrats, It was a good confusion and I am sure a good decision. I am just starting out.
Do you mind giving a little background about yurself.
Like GMAT Score, experience years, AWA score etc.
thanks!
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Do you mind giving a little background about yurself.
Like GMAT Score, experience years, AWA score etc.
thanks!
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26 Aug 2015, 14:21
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Okay let’s put some facts straight:
Acceptance rate: INSEAD is considered to accept around 25% (20-30) of applicants (link: https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#-school/insead/) . This is slightly higher than LBS’s acceptance rate of around 17-26% (e.g. link: https://www.economist.com/whichmba/londo ... 2014?tab=6 & https://poetsandquants.com/2015/01/03/th ... schools/2/ ). But now consider the fact that at INSEAD there are above 4.500 to 6.000 applicants and at LBS there are 1.600-2.400 applicants. Why is that important? INSEAD is taking more than 1.000 students, LBS around 400. What really counts is how many apply to a school – if LBS would take in more than 1.000 students (as INSEAD does) LBS would have an acceptance of above 50% towards 75%. Only the ultimate elite schools have an applicant pool of above 4.500/5.000 – see the list of US schools in 2014 below of poets&quants (link: https://poetsandquants.com/2015/03/26/ge ... y-tough/3/) and only the very best schools especially have a yield (rate of applicants who accept the offer) of above 70%. INSEAD is considered to have a yield of 75% (below Harvard and Stanford, above Wharton and Columbia) (link: https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#-school/insead/ and https://poetsandquants.com/2015/03/26/ge ... y-tough/3/). This also confirms the analysis by Poets&Quants that INSEAD ranks 4th worldwide (after HSW) in where the best candidates accept the offer and decline others (link: https://poetsandquants.com/2015/06/15/ra ... -students/)
Please see the comparison below: In blue you can find the data from Poets&Quants and in red you find a normative calculation (easily traceable). You can see that INSEAD is just below the top3 schools worldwide and its yield is just below H/S. If every school had the same intake size of 500, the acceptance rate of the top 5 schools (HSW, INSEAD, Columbia) would be similar below 10%.
Tepper, for instance, would have to accept almost 75% of applicants, if it had an intake of 1.000 MBA students. INSEAD can afford such an intake maintaining at same time a very high caliber student body.
Salaries:
First of all, salaries in the latest employment report of INSEAD are stated in 2014 exchange rates (see page 48 of the report – link: https://mba.insead.edu/documents/MBA_EMP ... ISTICS.pdf) not 2012. So everything is fine.
Second, overall annual salary is the BASE SALARY please have a look into INSEAD’s employment report of 2010 on page 14 where it is explicitly mentioned and the referred salaries are very similar to the ones in the 2014 report (link: https://mba.insead.edu/newsletter_archiv ... ISTICS.pdf)
The latest (2014) INSEAD overall annual median (BASE) salary is 89.400 € + overall median sign-on bonus of 19.400 € + year-end bonus, which is not stated because every employee receives it at the end of the year and it depends on merit. Therefore, the year-end bonus varies due merit and should not be stated in the actual employment report.
Now let’s compare INSEAD’s salaries to LBS’s salaries, which are both considered to be amongst the highest MBA salaries wordwide, converted into the same currency (€) at the same point in time (both converted in Q3/2014) – numbers taken from the latest employment reports (INSEAD: link: https://mba.insead.edu/newsletter_archiv ... ISTICS.pdf, LBS: link: https://www.london.edu/-/media/files/pro ... _final.pdf)
These base salaries are both only comparable to (but beating) HSW (Stanford: 129.620 $, Harvard: 127.24 $, Wharton: 123.43 $ - see above****)
* as of 1st of August (stated in LBS employment report) link: https://www.exchangerates.org.uk/GBP-EUR ... story.html
** also exchange rate August average 2014 (stated in INSEAD employment report) - link: https://www.x-rates.com/average/?from=EU ... &year=2014
*** This is the starting base salary - there is no start bonus and year-end bonus included.
**** Bear in mind that these are averages per school - see this link: https://poetsandquants.com/2015/07/06/th ... t-value/2/
Base salary down the road for 2014 – 3 years after graduation – source: FT:
Here, INSEAD and LBS salaries (3 years down the road) are almost exactly equal (155.546 $ & 155.754 $) after M7 probably due to the salary acceleration in the US compared to e.g. in Europe, where most INSEAD and LBS graduates work, and maybe due to the currency appreciation of the $ in the last year. See link: https://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolra ... nking-2015
Job Placement:
INSEAD’s latest employment report again demonstrates that it is THE consulting school placing more MBAs into MBB than any other school (actually more than the next couple of schools combined – see also other links and posts in this forum).
* see page 30 of the INSEAD’s latest employment report (link: https://mba.insead.edu/documents/MBA_EMP ... ISTICS.pdf) – in brackets the employees who went back to their previous employer. In total, around 25% of the class went solely into MBB.
Compared for instance to LBS 2014 (also considered as very high for MBB):
* see page 4 of the latest employment report (link: https://www.london.edu/-/media/files/pro ... _final.pdf) . In total, 64 of 400 went into MBB --> 16% --> This high compared to all other top-ranked MBAs, but nowhere near INSEAD.
CEOs in Fortune 500:
INSEAD has 9 (not 6) CEOs in Fortune 500 companies – globally only behind Harvard. 3rd is Stanford with 8, then Booth, Wharton, and Kellog with 6, Columbia 4, Darden & NYU 3, LBS 1. See link: https://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/61621620 ... z3jokqoS96
CEOs in Europe:
INSEAD absolutely dominates the list, with 12 of the CEOs from Europe's biggest listed companies having trained there, almost twice as many as the next-closest competitor (HBS: 7, IESE: 5, Wharton: 4, Booth: 3, LBS: 0. See link: https://uk.businessinsider.com/the-11-bu ... ?op=1?r=US
GMAT scores:
As stated previously, INSEAD does NOT take your best quant score and your best verbal score from different GMAT exams and calculates an own GMAT overall score. Period. There is no difference in the average GMAT score calculation than at any other school. Avg. GMAT for INSEAD is 701. LBS: 695 (see the latest employment reports) – these are slightly lower than the top 5-10 US schools. However, INSEAD is still able to maintain such a high level of incoming students, although it is accepting 1.000 students and requires students to know 3 languages. I am convinced that if LBS had an intake of 1.000 students, the GMAT score would be much lower than its current one. Compared to the top 5-10 US schools I also speculate that INSEAD’s quant score would be similar; the verbal score could be better in the US (due to the fact that English is US’ citizens’ native language)
Alumni Network:
INSEAD has one (if not THE) strongest alumni network in the world with 50.000 MBAs, Executive MBAs, PhD, Masters. Everywhere you can read that it is such a tightly knit community.
In summary, there is no doubt in my mind that you made absolutely the right choice going to INSEAD. It is always widely stated and I truly believe that you can’t go wrong in any case with one of the M7 + INSEAD + LBS schools. Recruiters know that the best candidates choose those schools and will recruit there. Generally, they will not increase one applicant’s salary because he/she is from one or the other school within this pool of 9 schools.
Personally, I moved to the US and will probably stay here. I’ll focus more on US schools. My dream schools will be Harvard, Stanford or INSEAD. Shoot high – life is too short to step back.
Acceptance rate: INSEAD is considered to accept around 25% (20-30) of applicants (link: https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#-school/insead/) . This is slightly higher than LBS’s acceptance rate of around 17-26% (e.g. link: https://www.economist.com/whichmba/londo ... 2014?tab=6 & https://poetsandquants.com/2015/01/03/th ... schools/2/ ). But now consider the fact that at INSEAD there are above 4.500 to 6.000 applicants and at LBS there are 1.600-2.400 applicants. Why is that important? INSEAD is taking more than 1.000 students, LBS around 400. What really counts is how many apply to a school – if LBS would take in more than 1.000 students (as INSEAD does) LBS would have an acceptance of above 50% towards 75%. Only the ultimate elite schools have an applicant pool of above 4.500/5.000 – see the list of US schools in 2014 below of poets&quants (link: https://poetsandquants.com/2015/03/26/ge ... y-tough/3/) and only the very best schools especially have a yield (rate of applicants who accept the offer) of above 70%. INSEAD is considered to have a yield of 75% (below Harvard and Stanford, above Wharton and Columbia) (link: https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#-school/insead/ and https://poetsandquants.com/2015/03/26/ge ... y-tough/3/). This also confirms the analysis by Poets&Quants that INSEAD ranks 4th worldwide (after HSW) in where the best candidates accept the offer and decline others (link: https://poetsandquants.com/2015/06/15/ra ... -students/)
Please see the comparison below: In blue you can find the data from Poets&Quants and in red you find a normative calculation (easily traceable). You can see that INSEAD is just below the top3 schools worldwide and its yield is just below H/S. If every school had the same intake size of 500, the acceptance rate of the top 5 schools (HSW, INSEAD, Columbia) would be similar below 10%.
Tepper, for instance, would have to accept almost 75% of applicants, if it had an intake of 1.000 MBA students. INSEAD can afford such an intake maintaining at same time a very high caliber student body.
Salaries:
First of all, salaries in the latest employment report of INSEAD are stated in 2014 exchange rates (see page 48 of the report – link: https://mba.insead.edu/documents/MBA_EMP ... ISTICS.pdf) not 2012. So everything is fine.
Second, overall annual salary is the BASE SALARY please have a look into INSEAD’s employment report of 2010 on page 14 where it is explicitly mentioned and the referred salaries are very similar to the ones in the 2014 report (link: https://mba.insead.edu/newsletter_archiv ... ISTICS.pdf)
The latest (2014) INSEAD overall annual median (BASE) salary is 89.400 € + overall median sign-on bonus of 19.400 € + year-end bonus, which is not stated because every employee receives it at the end of the year and it depends on merit. Therefore, the year-end bonus varies due merit and should not be stated in the actual employment report.
Now let’s compare INSEAD’s salaries to LBS’s salaries, which are both considered to be amongst the highest MBA salaries wordwide, converted into the same currency (€) at the same point in time (both converted in Q3/2014) – numbers taken from the latest employment reports (INSEAD: link: https://mba.insead.edu/newsletter_archiv ... ISTICS.pdf, LBS: link: https://www.london.edu/-/media/files/pro ... _final.pdf)
These base salaries are both only comparable to (but beating) HSW (Stanford: 129.620 $, Harvard: 127.24 $, Wharton: 123.43 $ - see above****)
* as of 1st of August (stated in LBS employment report) link: https://www.exchangerates.org.uk/GBP-EUR ... story.html
** also exchange rate August average 2014 (stated in INSEAD employment report) - link: https://www.x-rates.com/average/?from=EU ... &year=2014
*** This is the starting base salary - there is no start bonus and year-end bonus included.
**** Bear in mind that these are averages per school - see this link: https://poetsandquants.com/2015/07/06/th ... t-value/2/
Base salary down the road for 2014 – 3 years after graduation – source: FT:
Here, INSEAD and LBS salaries (3 years down the road) are almost exactly equal (155.546 $ & 155.754 $) after M7 probably due to the salary acceleration in the US compared to e.g. in Europe, where most INSEAD and LBS graduates work, and maybe due to the currency appreciation of the $ in the last year. See link: https://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolra ... nking-2015
Job Placement:
INSEAD’s latest employment report again demonstrates that it is THE consulting school placing more MBAs into MBB than any other school (actually more than the next couple of schools combined – see also other links and posts in this forum).
* see page 30 of the INSEAD’s latest employment report (link: https://mba.insead.edu/documents/MBA_EMP ... ISTICS.pdf) – in brackets the employees who went back to their previous employer. In total, around 25% of the class went solely into MBB.
Compared for instance to LBS 2014 (also considered as very high for MBB):
* see page 4 of the latest employment report (link: https://www.london.edu/-/media/files/pro ... _final.pdf) . In total, 64 of 400 went into MBB --> 16% --> This high compared to all other top-ranked MBAs, but nowhere near INSEAD.
CEOs in Fortune 500:
INSEAD has 9 (not 6) CEOs in Fortune 500 companies – globally only behind Harvard. 3rd is Stanford with 8, then Booth, Wharton, and Kellog with 6, Columbia 4, Darden & NYU 3, LBS 1. See link: https://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/61621620 ... z3jokqoS96
CEOs in Europe:
INSEAD absolutely dominates the list, with 12 of the CEOs from Europe's biggest listed companies having trained there, almost twice as many as the next-closest competitor (HBS: 7, IESE: 5, Wharton: 4, Booth: 3, LBS: 0. See link: https://uk.businessinsider.com/the-11-bu ... ?op=1?r=US
GMAT scores:
As stated previously, INSEAD does NOT take your best quant score and your best verbal score from different GMAT exams and calculates an own GMAT overall score. Period. There is no difference in the average GMAT score calculation than at any other school. Avg. GMAT for INSEAD is 701. LBS: 695 (see the latest employment reports) – these are slightly lower than the top 5-10 US schools. However, INSEAD is still able to maintain such a high level of incoming students, although it is accepting 1.000 students and requires students to know 3 languages. I am convinced that if LBS had an intake of 1.000 students, the GMAT score would be much lower than its current one. Compared to the top 5-10 US schools I also speculate that INSEAD’s quant score would be similar; the verbal score could be better in the US (due to the fact that English is US’ citizens’ native language)
Alumni Network:
INSEAD has one (if not THE) strongest alumni network in the world with 50.000 MBAs, Executive MBAs, PhD, Masters. Everywhere you can read that it is such a tightly knit community.
In summary, there is no doubt in my mind that you made absolutely the right choice going to INSEAD. It is always widely stated and I truly believe that you can’t go wrong in any case with one of the M7 + INSEAD + LBS schools. Recruiters know that the best candidates choose those schools and will recruit there. Generally, they will not increase one applicant’s salary because he/she is from one or the other school within this pool of 9 schools.
Personally, I moved to the US and will probably stay here. I’ll focus more on US schools. My dream schools will be Harvard, Stanford or INSEAD. Shoot high – life is too short to step back.
