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Talking to all prospective Cycle 2 applicants, we sensed a major panic on the preparedness for cycle 2, therefore here's a great news, ISB announces Cycle 3. May the force be with you!

What does ISB look for in an applicant?

Answered by the Dean in an interview with Poets and Quants!

We look at multiple dimensions. For screening purposes we look at GMAT and GPA. The average GMAT is about 710, which has been our average right from the beginning. We have kept it 710 but we have regularly turned down people with 750 because they didn’t have the communication skills.

We interview everybody that we admit. What we’re looking for is team-building attitudes. We’re looking for communication skills. We’re looking for leadership skills. Increasingly, we are looking beyond IQ and EQ to HQ: heart quotient. For example, we were talking about Teach for India. If somebody has committed two years of their life right out of undergraduate school to teach young kids, we know they have a heart. We love to hire people who are really smart and who have an ethical center, commitment to society, and commitment to the nation.

We are also looking for entrepreneurship. I was just at a dinner with a bunch of alums in Hyderabad last night and they were arguing that we ought to give extra weight to people who already started a company. In the early cohorts we had a higher percentage of people who had already started a company before they came to school. We will look at how do we bring in this kind of mix as well. We’re also looking for global diversity.

ISB May Be The Most Interesting B-School In The World Founded with help from Kellogg, Wharton, London Business School, and MIT, Indian School of Business offers the equivalent of an MBA, part-time MBA, and EMBA

It's time to get back to the drawing board, lay out your concept maps, brainstorm with your mentor, write those moving essays and yes eventually get that elusive interview call! Inbox our page today and get started on a journey to your dream b-school!

The best thing to do when your interview goes into stress mode is to realise that yes infact you're being grilled, keep a check on your temperant, try to maintain your cool and try to veer the conversation your own way to a topic you're confident of. I don't know or I give up doesn't work, being defensive doesn't work, admitting that you learnt something today works!

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Greet your panel, be enthusiastic, and keep your energy level high, inspires confidence!

Interact with other candidates in the waiting room if you get a chance, helps calm your nerves.

Remember that the panel might be having a very busy day, with hardly any breaks between interviews, so if you wish to be heard make sure your speech is collected and concise, not verbal diarrhoea!

Don't hesitate to ask questions around personal experiences at ISB, happiest moment, stressful one's, hell week, o week, favorite professor, favorite event.

This is with respect to the any questions for us? At the end of the interview.

If you falter at some point in the interview, reset immediately, dont let your confidence subside.

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