NUS 2012 - Calling All Applicants

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NUS (National University of Singapore) FT MBA 2012 Intake

Rankings   (GMAT Club International Ranking and Clusters) 
   Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2011  #23 
  Economist MBA Ranking  #86 (Global), #10 (Asia-Pacific) 
  QS Global 200 MBA Ranking  #4 (Asia-Pacific)

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Application Process  https://bschool.nus.edu.sg/Portals/0/images/MBA/Website/Admissions%20process.jpg

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 Questions about this Roll Call ?

nocluewhatsoever · Answer

Interestingly, no posts so far! I'd expect NUS to be more popular than this

Ideas on what the applicants are writing about a current problem in 'Asia'?

rasta · Answer

Yeah, strange. There are loads of issues to write about in Asia: Human rights in Korea; Basic Financial Access to BPL for many of the Asian countries; Environmental concerns in China, India, and possibly Japan as well; Economic uncertainities in Japan & India; China's financial chess game. Don't get me started about the Middle East

There are so many problems to choose from, but it should ideally be related to your career goals. Not something that you know about, but something that you want to attempt to resolve (in whatever small way/role possible).

aviroop · Answer

Guessing I got an admit into NUS, albeit in a funny way. In the application portal under admissions status, there is a new button called E-Payment that shows up on my screen. When I clicked on it, it shows I have to pay the NUS acceptance fee of SGD 5000.

Did not get any official admit email from the school nor any status update. But its Chinese New Year so perhaps the email has not been sent out.

Did not get any official admit email from the school nor any status update. But its Chinese New Year so perhaps the email has not been sent out.

aviroop · Answer

btw - rasta

NUS is ranked 23 in FT 2011 Global MBA Rankings. Its HKUST which is 6.

rasta · Answer

Nice! Congratulations! Yeah, they're probably ensuring all accounts have the status change reflected before sending out the confirmation email.

rasta · Answer

My bad. I've updated the rankings. Thanks for the spot! :thumbup:

nocluewhatsoever · Answer

Wow! Congratulations! If you don't mind, when did you submit the application? I thought we were still a week from the deadline! :shock:

aviroop · Answer

Submitted app on 28th October, got interview invite on 23rd November, gave on-campus interview on 13th January, saw the change in the application portal today.

aviroop · Answer

this is a bit bizarre. NUS adcom actually called me 2 times asking me if I got the acceptance email and whether I have made up my mind to join the school.

Anyone else have had this experience?

armukherjee · Answer

I submitted my application yesterday for Round 1, 28th Jan, 2012. Any idea how much time it takes on an average, to hear back on the status of the application?

aviroop · Answer

about a month or so for the interview invite to come out.

Chingching · Answer

I submitted on 18th Jan., and got invitation yesterday.

goldy · Answer

Ding here

sachintendua · Answer

Hi Goldy,
I am sorry to here that. When did you apply and were you interviewed? BTW all the best for other schools!!!

abhiagar · Answer

Hi aviroop and others,

Can you share your interview experience and who all are planning to join NUS MBA 2012.

Thanks

aanchalsinha · Answer

Hi,

Congratulations to all those who have secured a admission or interview invite.

What sort of questions did you get asked? PLease share your experience and any key tips.

Thanks

kenhsu · Answer

I had my interview about 3 weeks ago. I researched online to get a general sense of how the interviews at NUS were held. In order to prepare for my interview, I decided to keep up with a lot of current affairs around the world, especially the ones that had some sort of relation with my essay responses.

Having said that, the interview for me was completely different than what I expected. I had two people interview me (one adcom member, one faculty) and we talked about various things. Here are some of the questions they asked.

1. What are three important elements of a leader?
2. Please expand upon your career goals after attending NUS.
3. Why Bschool? Why NUS?
4. What am I looking for when I am applying to BSchool (They didn't actually ask for me to list the schools I had applied to)
5. What do you like to do on your spare time?
6. What are somethings you feel that you can bring to the learning community at NUS?

That was basically what I was asked. The interview was surprisingly short, lasted 15 minutes. I asked two questions and we discussed those questions for a while. My interview ended up being around 25 minutes.

I hope this helps, but like I said, this is completely different than what I was expecting. Good luck to you!

aanchalsinha · Answer

Hi kenhsu,

That was really helpful. I have read on various posts that NUS tends to ask questions related to current affairs and also questions around "if you were xyz how would you solve abc problem". In other words not the typical Why MBA; Why XYZ school. Was the interview relaxed or was it nerve wracking?

Have you heard from them about their decision yet?

kenhsu · Answer

The interview was very relaxed. I was recently admitted.

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