St. Gallen Masters in Management - MA. HSG SIM?

Here's an unofficial group so we can connect before the semester starts/the official one is created : https://www.facebook.com/groups/686906688082008/

Great thanks for the group ! I joined it

How old are the average applicants to SiM?

I would say this year's intake averages around slightly above 23 (at the start of the programme).

Hi. I wanted to know what is the average GMAT score required? I am taking my GMAT in three days time and I need to know if I should put this college. My current practice scores are in the range of 680-710. It'll be awfully helpful if you could provide some knowledge. My GPA is 3.05/4. So are there any specifications?

St Gallen SIM is the world's top MiM program according to FT rankings.
Before talking about your profile, let me take you quickly through the admission procedure of St Gallen-
1. Online Application
2. Pre-assessment (The Pre-Assessment consists of different parts: numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning and inductive-logical reasoning.)
3. Assessment with CEMS corporate partners- The assessment centre consists of four parts:
Presentation
Case study
Group discussion
Interview
4. Admission- Students evaluated to possess a suitable CEMS profile are admitted
5. School for semester abroad- After final acceptance of the student, the CEMS partner school for one semester abroad is allocated.


For more information about St Gallen's SIM, you can click here- https://www.mim-essay.com/st-gallen-mim-review/

Finally, let us come to the point and evaluate your profile.

You GPA is the only information objectively provided by you- which is extremely difficult to give a good evaluation of your profile. Even if you get a 680+ GMAT, still there are many factors which should be taken into account to evaluate your profile.
Essays- Letter of motivation strongly connecting all relevant experiences to your application and career goals.
If applicable, good description of your work experiences.
Co-curricular activities- whether or not relevant to your career goals, show the various traits and qualities of your personality.
These 3 points would complete the information needed to evaluate your profile. Assuming that apart from your good GPA and GMAT score you also are able to produce good results on these 3, your chances at St Gallen would be appreciable.

For exact evaluation, you can go for Free professional profile evaluation at -https://mim-essay.com/profile-evaluation?gcf

Hope this helped. Good luck

The SIM and CEMS are two different things, and the admissions system is somewhat different

The admission criteria has changed completely this year. Has anyone already done the video interview? If so, any thoughts?

Look in the applicable post, this one is over 5 years old. If you can't find it, check my profile, I've posted to that post.

The interview asks roughly 6 questions, giving you varied time to prepare and answer, for example 30 sec to 1 min prep time, and 2 mins to answer.
Questions range from Why St Gallen to questions to test you thinking, such as opinion based questions.

Overall just prepare a bit with a few mock interviews, get comfortable with the whole process and you should be fine.
They dont expect perfect answers, just want to see how you handle yourself and if you fit in with the core values of St. Gallen.

You can read a bit more about St. Gallen SIM here: https://www.mim-essay.com/st-gallen-mim-review/

Hello!

I'm currently preparing for the application for 2018 intake.

I have some problems regarding the proof for extra curricular.

The admission requires proof for each extra-curricular experiences, I wonder if I should have someone translated those into English (I'm from Taiwan so many of the proof/certificate are in Chinese)

I've asked whether it should be verified by the officials, and reply is no need. But for the translation, I'm not sure. Can I translate by myself? How should it be presented?

Looking forward to someone to answer this~

How come there's so few replies to the thread this year.

What score should one be aiming for as a minimum to get the admit, based on their system, 65, 70 ?

Also is there anyone who got to the interview stage this year and can tell us how it went, what sort of questions were asked.

Hey Linlinli,


To verify your proofs notary will be a good option.
For translation, you can do it yourself and you can send the translated copy along with the original copy side by side.

If the college needs anything else, they’ll get back to you.

Hey SeanMurphy,

There is no fixed minimum point requirement as such to get the admit but the higher you aim the better your chances. A 70-75 score should be enough to get admission into the same.

The interview is a part of the application process and everyone has to give it. They have joined a host of other schools who use the Kira Video format, which is an automated and customized Video Interview tool which aims to get a more holistic assessment of the candidate’s profile.
The Kira platform starts off with practice questions so that you get more comfortable with the environment, and understand the type of questions you are expected to face.

After that the interview would start.
Some of the questions you could face are:
- What’s the best mistake you have ever made?
- How would you explain Facebook to your Grandma?
- What is one characteristic that you believe every leader should possess.

If you need expert guidance for your Interviews, you can check out our Interview Preparation Service:
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