The road to perdition... err INSEAD

I have been reading all about INSEAD in the past few days! I was been tormented of its requirements. Even in my sleep, I have been thinking how I am going to write an excessively exciting yet truthful essays about myself, my accomplishments, and my craziness. My study is now a total mess. I just have cleaned my room a couple of days ago, and now, it's back to it messiness!

When i get bored at work, i would open the various INSEAD bloggers website whereas detailing their road to perdition, err, INSEAD. :) If you find me crazy, i would be more crazier when i get admitted in INSEAD. One blogger commented about life in INSEAD that the schedule is crazy and the parties are crazier. WHoa!

Read below what I got from wikipedia about INSEAD and its MBA program. You could check as well the website, http://www.insead.edu/

INSEAD is a graduate business school and research institution with campuses in Fontainebleau (near Paris), France and in Singapore. In 2006, an INSEAD Executive Education centre was inaugurated in Abu Dhabi.

The official name of the school is INSEAD (phonetically/pronounced IN-SEE-ADD), originally an acronym for Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires.

One of the world's leading business schools, INSEAD's main differentiation factor lies in its global perspective and multicultural diversity.

Outline of the program
The MBA curriculum is made of a range of required core courses covering traditional management disciplines including finance, economics, organizational behavious, accounting, ethics, marketing, statistics, operations management, international political analysis, supply chain management and corporate strategy. MBA participants are graded on a relative curve and the MBA programme is renowned for its intensity.

All participants are bilingual or more at entry and required to learn a third language before finishing the program. The school officially emphasizes it is a global school, neither a French nor a Singaporean school.

INSEAD's student body comprises more than 70 nationalities, with no nationality representing more than 15% of the student body. Mother tongues of MBA programme participants, July and December 2006 classes, are: English 17%, French 13%, Hindi 8%, Spanish 6%, German 5%, Mandarin 4%, Portuguese 4%, Other 43%.

The Admissions Committee selects candidates from a pool of applicants on the basis of various qualities and look in particular for excellent academic performance, career progress, interpersonal skills and leadership potential.

All applicants must hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent, be fluent in English and are required to submit a lengthy application with detailed essays supporting their case, two recommendations, their Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score and academic transcripts. MBA participants' average GMAT score is currently 702 (class of July 2007).

Applicants who successfully pass the initial screening process by the Admissions Committee are invited to two separate interviews conducted by alumni in their country of residence.

INSEAD has two full facility campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and in Singapore. They are officially called Europe Campus and Asia Campus respectively. There is no distinction in admissions and most elective courses are offered across both campuses.

All MBA participants can choose a preferred campus to start the MBA programme, and after the first two periods they have an option to move to either location (or to the Wharton school) in each of the third to fifth periods (in 2001, an alliance between INSEAD and the Wharton School was announced). Professors also move between campuses throughout a year. More than 70% of December 2006 class MBA participants have opted to exchange between the two campuses.