If you are applying after March 21, 2014, please refer to the questions and tips here. INSEAD will no longer accept responses to these questions after March 21. After that date you will need to use the new essay prompts. Bucking the trends of fewer essays and micro essays, INSEAD requires applicants to express themselves…
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INSEAD Appoints Ilian Mihov New Dean
Big news at INSEAD! The top European business school just appointed Ilian Mihov, an INSEAD economics professor, as dean. Mihov will be the first new dean appointed from “the inside” in more than 12 years and the first dean ever to carry out his deanship at the Singapore campus. A Poets & Quants article states…
INSEAD 2014 Application Deadlines
There are a bunch of INSEAD application deadlines coming up, both for January 2014 intakes (class of 2014 – December) and for September 2014 intakes (class of 2015 – July). Mark your calendars and please let us know how we can help you meet your INSEAD (or any other school) goals! For January 2014 Start…
Financial Times’ 2013 Global MBA Rankings
Drum roll please…The Financial Times ranks the top 25 global b-schools as follows… 1. Harvard Business School 2. Stanford Graduate School of Business 3. University of Pennsylvania – Wharton 4. London Business School 5. Columbia Business School 6. INSEAD 7. IESE Business School 8. Hong Kong UST Business School 9. MIT Sloan 10. Chicago Booth…
The Most Popular Resources at Accepted
For this last post of 2012, I thought you might be interested in what you — our readers, visitors, clients, and friends — visited, read, and watched the most in 2012. Top Ten Most Visited Accepted Admissions Blog Posts of 2012: Harvard Business School 2013 Essay Tips INSEAD 2013 MBA Essay Tips Tips for Completing…
INSEAD MBA Admissions Interview Available Online
If you attended our recent INSEAD Q&A then you know that Kara Keenan, the Assistant Director of Marketing for the Americas from INSEAD, covered a wide range of admissions topics, offering some excellent advice to our INSEAD applicants. Here’s an excerpt from the conversation in which Kara discusses the benefits of an INSEAD MBA –…
INSEAD MBA Student Interview
Accepted.com is continuing a blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. We hope to offer you a candid picture of student life, and what you should consider as you prepare your MBA application. Here’s a talk with Kelly Sun, a student who is wrapping up…
2011 IMD Admissions Director Interview Posted
If you attended our recent conversation with IMD’s Lisa Piguet, Associate Director of MBA Admissions and Marketing, then you know what a success it was. You can review the Q&A by reading the whole IMD Q&A transcript, by listening to the full audio clip online, or by subscribing to our podcast in iTunes and…
2011 INSEAD Admissions Director Interview Posted
If you attended our recent conversation with INSEAD‘s Kara Keenan and Melissa Jones, Assistant Directors of Marketing, then you know what a success it was. You can review the Q&A by reading the whole INSEAD Q&A transcript, by listening to the full audio clip online, or by subscribing to our podcast in iTunes and…
Strengths and Weakness Essays: Turning Lemons into Lemonade
At least three MBA programs, including INSEAD — the focus of this video — and several medical secondary applications ask about strengths and weaknesses. The weakness part of the question bedevils applicants. Everyone squirms when they have to write about their flaws, especially when striving to present their qualifications and strengths. In this video, I…
MBA Essays: You’ve Got Options!
HBS. Kellogg. INSEAD. Emory. More and more MBA programs ask you to answer one or more required questions and then ask you to respond to X out of Y prompts. The choice immediately poses a problem or at least an issue to think about: Which questions should you respond to? I’ll tell you in this…
Sustainable MBAs
Thinking about a career in sustainable enterprise? Each year the Aspen Institute ranks MBA programs in their Beyond Grey Pinstripes edition on the schools’ ability to provide curriculum, research and careers while looking at the triple bottom line. This list continues to grow, but according to the 2010 rankings, candidates looking at MBA programs that…
Plagiarism in Residency Essays: Just Don’t
The WSJ’s Health Blog recently posted “Study: Medical Residency Applicants and Plagiarism” which cites a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine by a team of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The researchers found “evidence of plagiarism” in 5.2% of residency application personal statements by comparing the essays to publicly available material…
Stanford Wins First Place for Forbes’ “The Most Satisfied MBAs”
Forbes took its survey findings from “The Best Business Schools” and compiled a second rankings report: “The Most Satisfied MBAs.” Stanford won top slot for both rankings. It is #1 for providing the best return on investment for its graduates, as well as for churning out MBAs who are extremely satisfied with their current jobs…
Digging Deep – 2: Kellogg’s MMM Program
Several weeks ago I posted about a hypothetical client –let’s call him Wonderman– with sterling stats, extra-curriculars and long-term goal. He wants to transition into Strategy Consulting as preparation for a VC or PE career. As an applicant from a developing economy experiencing a boom in infrastructure and manufacturing activity, Wonderman dreams of identifying local…
INSEAD 2010 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips.
UPDATE- The tips from INSEAD’s 2011 MBA Application are now available online. Please post questions or comments to the new post. INSEAD 2010 (Sept) MBA Essay Questions My comments are in red: JOB ESSAYS 1. Please give a detailed description of your job, including nature of work, major responsibilities; and, where relevant, employees under your supervision,…
The European MBA Alternative
Mobility has long been a by-word for MBA graduates, so amidst the current economic woes and uncertain MBA job market, more and more applicants are considering an MBA outside the US. In fact, a study this month by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation shows that a growing number of students believe they will find better…
Chats: Yale, Wharton, INSEAD
We are excited to host Yale School of Management and its representatives this Thursday September 25 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/5:00 PM GMT. Our guests will be: Bruce Delmonico, Director of Admissions Shelley Clifford, Deputy Director of Admissions Keith Morriss, Yale SOM Class of 2009 Please join us to learn more about Yale’s innovative…
INSEAD Sept 2009 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips
UPDATE- The tips from INSEAD’s 2010 MBA Application are now available online. Please post questions or comments to the new post. INSEAD Sept 2009 Deadlines Application Deadline Decision Released Round 1 Oct 1, 2008 Dec 19, 2008 Round 2 Nov 26, 2008 Mar 6, 2009 Round 3 Feb 11, 2009 May 7, 2009…
MBA Admissions Chats Past and Future: Consortium, LBS, Haas, and INSEAD
We have two large chats planned for this week and are adding a couple of excellent new transcripts from recent chats. First the upcoming chats: The Consortium has put together an impressive group of career services professionals to answer your questions tomorrow December 11 at 5:00 PM PT/8:00 PM ET during an online chat in…
