Blog: Archive for the “INSEAD” Category

*Please note: You are viewing an essay analysis from the 2017-2018 admissions cycle. Click here to view our collection of essay analyses for the current admissions season.  This application season, INSEAD has made almost no changes to its essay approach and prompts. The admissions committee is posing the same career-related short-answer questions, with just one notable … Read More  

1. Give a candid description of yourself, stressing the personal characteristics you feel to be your strengths and weaknesses and the main factors, which have influenced your personal development, giving examples when necessary. (400 words approx.) Although the request for “main factors which have influenced your development” comes later in the question, we feel you … Read More  

Musical chairs anyone? Chicago Booth takes a dean from Darden, and then Yale takes that very dean from Chicago Booth. Kellogg announces that it has found its new dean at NYU Stern (undergrad), and INSEAD then plucks outgoing dean Dipak Jain from Kellogg. Jain, a well-respected academic and administrator, should bring some cache to INSEAD. … Read More  

We always advise candidates to take rankings not with a grain of salt, but with a pound of it. Today, the Financial Times released its annual ranking of top global MBA programs and London Business School came out on top, with Wharton, HBS, Stanford, INSEAD and many others following, of course. So, why should one … Read More  

The Financial Times reports on the increasing number of women in the MBA classroom, highlighting NYU-Stern and Wharton at 40% and Boston University with a remarkable 45%. Meanwhile, INSEAD is up significantly from 23% a decade ago to 34% today. (It is worth noting that law schools average 47% female enrollment and medical schools average … Read More