"How well can INSEAD market you to the companies that hire from them?"
The reason this question is important is that INSEAD is a business whose customers are companies (pay for research, collaborate with professors on projects, pay for recruiting) and students (pay tuitition). Now, how can you have a marketable application/profile/resume
- Big Brands on resume - Worked at IBM, Intel, Mckinsey, Microsoft, Google, Nike, Disney etc. If you've worked for them before then you've got something going on.
- Big Brands in education - Degree from Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, IIT, etc. etc.
- Big numbers - 4.0 GPA, Summa cum laude, distinctions, 760+ GMAT (I have 720 and I think that's a commodity score)
- Personality & Communication - That's what the interviews are for. Can the school put you in front of these companies and get you hired by them?
And the essay's and such are fine - you need to show them you're connected and influential. I think someone who is strong in the above criteria has to work much less harder to get an admit anywhere..
Ofcourse, I could be completely wrong since all this is pure speculation...
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Hey,
Great blog you have here, found some good advice in your posts.
I have a question: did you get your interview invitation on the actual interview decision notification deadline or earlier?
I'm waiting for my notification for round 3 and, as days pass by, I'm becoming more and more pessimistic.
Thanks,
Albert
hey Albert,
I got my notification about a week in advance. I suggest being super patient until the very last date. There really isn't much of a pattern as far as INSEAD or any of these B-schools go.
Strangely, I think the lack of transparency reflects badly on these schools. As a management school, you'd think that these guys would better manage their admission procedure :-)
thanks for the advice. luckily I don't need to exercise my patience anmymore, got the interview invite today.
if it goes well, hope to see you in the classroom :)
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