INSEAD Application Essays
Job Essays:
1. (Required) Please give a detailed description of your job, including nature of work, major responsibilities;
and, where relevant, employees under your supervision, size of budget, number of
clients/products and results achieved. (250 words)
2. (Required) Please give us a full description of your career since graduating from university. If you were to
remain with your present employer, what would be your next step in terms of position? (250
words)
Personal Essays:
1. (Required) 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.)
2. (Required) Describe what you believe to be your two most substantial accomplishments to date, explaining why
you view them as such. (400 words approx.)
3. (Required) Describe a situation taken from school, business, civil or military life, where you did not meet your
personal objectives, and discuss briefly the effect. (250 words approx.)
4. (Required) Discuss your career goals. What skills do you expect to gain from studying at INSEAD and how will
they contribute to your professional career? (500 words approx.)
5. (Required) Please choose one of the following two essay topics:
a) Have you ever experienced culture shock? What did it mean to you? (250 words approx.), or
b) What would you say to a foreigner moving to your home country? (250 words approx.)
6. (Optional) Is there anything that you have not mentioned in the above essays that you would like the Admissions
Committee to know? (200 words approx.)
7. (For reapplicants) In case of reapplication, please use this page. Your essay should state any new aspects of
professional, international, academic, or personal development since your last application. We would
also like you to explain your motivation for re-applying to INSEAD. This essay should not exceed 400
words.
Click here to
return to our main page on INSEAD.
* Essays are for the 2009 - 2010
application season.
|
