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The London Business School 2011 Thread 05 Nov 2010, 04:43
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got an invite :)
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 05 Nov 2010, 05:18
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Food for thought: I read somewhere that as a rough benchmark, LBS calls about 30% of all applicants for interviews and then accepts about 70% afterwards for final offers... About 85% will accept the offer or defer!
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Wow that is a very encouraging piece of information..... totally the opposite of what I assumed... I thought LBS was more along the lines of Wharton (i.e. high percentage of interview invites).

Where did you read that?
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 05 Nov 2010, 05:31
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Anybody in the age range of 23-25 got invites? :)
I am not able to edit the spreadsheet in the 1st page, anybody is?
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 05 Nov 2010, 06:03
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INSEAD invite.. finally day is becoming better after a straight ding from LBS!!!
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 05 Nov 2010, 06:05
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Food for thought: I read somewhere that as a rough benchmark, LBS calls about 30% of all applicants for interviews and then accepts about 70% afterwards for final offers... About 85% will accept the offer or defer!

I read this in the following pages, a Chat with a team from London Business School Admissions:
Originally mentioned here: https://www.accepted.com/chat/transcript ... 8_lbs.aspx
then restated here:
https://www.accepted.com/chat/transcript ... 9_lbs.aspx
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 05 Nov 2010, 06:36
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got an interview invite last night..was fast asleep after a really difficult few days at work
been an eventful day fr me having seen the lbs invite earlier today n a ding frm insead later..brought me down to earth real quick and reminded me tht i need to get in a real gd app to stern ;)

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Anybody in the age range of 23-25 got invites? :)
I am not able to edit the spreadsheet in the 1st page, anybody is?
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hey man..i'm 24, turning 25 next week..nt filled out the spreadsheet yet..but wil get to it rt away..cheers
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 05 Nov 2010, 09:14
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I'm a bit confused. If you haven't gotten an invite for an interview at this point nor a ding what does that mean? For US schools if you don't receive an invite that is effectively a ding but its seems that based on this thread people have been receiving dings explicitly. Anyone have some insight?
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 05 Nov 2010, 09:48
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Anybody in the age range of 23-25 got invites? :)
I am not able to edit the spreadsheet in the 1st page, anybody is?
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Buddy I am 25 and got an invite..if this helps :)
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 05 Nov 2010, 10:10
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Food for thought: I read somewhere that as a rough benchmark, LBS calls about 30% of all applicants for interviews and then accepts about 70% afterwards for final offers... About 85% will accept the offer or defer!

I read this in the following pages, a Chat with a team from London Business School Admissions:
Originally mentioned here: https://www.accepted.com/chat/transcript ... 8_lbs.aspx
then restated here:
https://www.accepted.com/chat/transcript ... 9_lbs.aspx
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The stats you quote have been mentioned by Peter Johnson, who is the admissions head for MiF program and not MBA. Thus, there is a probability that the MBA stats might significantly differ. Just my 2 cents!
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 05 Nov 2010, 10:12
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You just have to have a balance - if you have little international work but have plenty of domestic you'll be fine.
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 05 Nov 2010, 14:00
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Did you apply for Round 1? Best of luck if you got an interview :)
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I'm applying Round 2.
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 06 Nov 2010, 04:55
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Quick question...

Has anyone done the LBS MBA Drop-in in London?

What is it like? how long does it last and what do you actually do? i.e. do you get a tour or sit-in in a class or something?

Thanks!
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 06 Nov 2010, 06:16
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I got my interview invite from LBS, I had a couple of doubts:

1) The Alumnus would have read my application or not? We are supposed to answer with different examples, or can we use the same.

2) The case presentation : it would be only verbal/speech kinds i suppose. Any idea of topics asked frequently?
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 06 Nov 2010, 06:22
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Quick question...

Has anyone done the LBS MBA Drop-in in London?

What is it like? how long does it last and what do you actually do? i.e. do you get a tour or sit-in in a class or something?

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You get to sit in a MBA presentation, meet current students and tour of the school.

Not sit in class - that needs to be arranged with admissions team separately.
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 06 Nov 2010, 06:25
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I got my interview invite from LBS, I had a couple of doubts:

1) The Alumnus would have read my application or not? We are supposed to answer with different examples, or can we use the same.

2) The case presentation : it would be only verbal/speech kinds i suppose. Any idea of topics asked frequently?
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1. Yes. They will have copy of whole application file including essays etc, whether they have read or not, is personal I guess. Most likely someone who graduated in last couple of years and of same nationality as yours.

2. 1 min to read from 5 topics and decide which one you will present on, 5 min to prepare and 5 min to present. Typical ones supply chain outsourcing, London Olympics in 2012 etc.

pm me if you want more info. :wink: info comes first hand from a current student who I am friends with!
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 06 Nov 2010, 06:32
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Thanks for the information! very helpful. I think I might do a drop-in.

were there lots of people? i.e. was it sort of like an interview in that you are alone with adcom staff and students?

What kind of question would the supply chain mgmt one be?
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 06 Nov 2010, 14:45
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Thanks for the information! very helpful. I think I might do a drop-in.

were there lots of people? i.e. was it sort of like an interview in that you are alone with adcom staff and students?

What kind of question would the supply chain mgmt one be?
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About 15-20 people in the drop-in I attended, so certainly not alone with the adcom and students.

"You have to make a decision whether to outsource manufacturing to Eastern Europe. Discuss what you think about this and provide arguments to support your decision" - something along these lines, not word to word....
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 06 Nov 2010, 15:37
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Cool man, thanks for that. Do you know of any more examples?

15-20, wow that's more than I expected!
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 06 Nov 2010, 18:50
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Here are the results from GC (from what I could get from the forum)
rkn - invite
sachintendua - ding
ravdoc - ding
cwhs - ding
bonobocobra - ding
involved - ding
vbux - ding
Anandzz - ding
staind - ding
PKV - ding
bpenn - ding
launchpad123 - ding
cpandya14 - ding


rdxb - invite
kittu - invite
usmbaquest - invite
mbaaspirant11 - invite
madeinafrica - invite
Embeayy - invite
MBAyer - invite
rid82 - invite
TDA - invite
Chambax - invite
topMBAwannabe - invite
Bac2School - invite
niceguy - invite
jmcd2127 - invite
perfectmisfit - invite
vivekrb - invite
fleurdelisse - invite

Guys, please update the spreadsheet! thanks
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The London Business School 2011 Thread 06 Nov 2010, 18:56
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Here are the results from GC (from what I could get from the forum)
rkn - invite
sachintendua - ding
ravdoc - ding
cwhs - ding
bonobocobra - ding
involved - ding
vbux - ding
Anandzz - ding
staind - ding
PKV - ding
bpenn - ding
launchpad123 - ding
cpandya14 - ding


rdxb - invite
kittu - invite
usmbaquest - invite
mbaaspirant11 - invite
madeinafrica - invite
Embeayy - invite
MBAyer - invite
rid82 - invite
TDA - invite
Chambax - invite
topMBAwannabe - invite
Bac2School - invite
niceguy - invite
jmcd2127 - invite
perfectmisfit - invite
vivekrb - invite
fleurdelisse - invite

Guys, please update the spreadsheet! thanks
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Thanks for compiling this info srjaidev!
Thats 18 out of 30 on this forum who have invites...60%...thats pretty neat..

Good luck for the interview to the people with invites! and good luck to dinged folks with all their other schools...
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