How many applications do you guys reckon IESE gets per round? I read somewhere it’s a 25% acceptance rate. So if it’s 350 per year, that implies they receive 1400 applications. Am I wrong?
R1 and R2 would probably make up most of that. Let’s say 75% of total apps. So that’s 1050 combined. Split evenly 525 per round.
Could layer on geographical and industry splits from there. In my case, I care about North America and Consulting. North America is 20% of the class and Consulting is 13%. Assuming those are representative of the applicant pool (which might not be a fair assumption) that’s 105 North Americans in R2. If we assume the 13% Consulting figure holds true for North Americans too (big assumption), thats 10-15 North American Consultants in R2.
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