Fellow Application Instructions

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General
InSITE has traditionally recruited our Fellows from four top New York City programs: Columbia Business School, Columbia Law School, NYU Stern School of Business, and NYU School of Law. This year, however, we opened the Fellow application to any graduate program based in New York City.

Selection Criteria
To be considered, applicants must be:

  1. Enrolled full-time in a graduate or post-doc program based in NYC.
  2. Able and willing to commit a minimum of 4 semesters as an active Fellow with either a Tues or Wed evening available during this time to serve on a Team. (Columbia J-Term students may count their summer as a semester and are thus eligible to apply in their first semester.)
  3. Willing to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA). An applicant is not technically a Fellow until he or she signs this document. If you are uncomfortable signing the NDA, please do not apply.

If you meet the above criteria, then we welcome your application. Please note that InSITE cannot accept 3Ls or MBA2s.

When reviewing applicants, we look to a number of factors, including:

  1. Passion and Dedication: We look for an applicants who have the energy and willingness to commit to an intense and demanding group such as InSITE, on top of their school commitments. We expect our Fellows to become Team Leaders, Officers, or take their own initiative to improve and contribute to the organization in unique ways.
  2. Interpersonal Skills: We care deeply about finding candidates who have integrity, initiative, leadership, reliability, courtesy, composure, concise & effective communication skills, and analytical ability. Yes, we want it all.
  3. Industry Experience: We learn from each other, so we seek candidates who have experience in private equity, venture capital, starting a company, technology, engineering, operations, law (especially intellectual property law), or experience in other arenas that developed skills transferable to InSITE.

While we do not seek to fill specific quotas for any of the programs, we recognize that one of the strengths of InSITE is our diversity across different schools/disciplines and our balance of graduating and first-year/earlier year students, which brings stability and continuity. However, first and foremost, we seek applicants who embody the the spirit of InSITE.

Selection Process Overview
The Fellow application process has two parts:

  1. The Written Application: This includes a resume, statement of interest, and VentureBeat article analysis.
      All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, February 2nd. No late applications will be accepted as the Application Form will close.

  2. The Interview: After all the written applications are reviewed, advancing applicants are invited back for a 15-20 minute interview.
      Important Interview Dates
        Monday, February 6th: Notified of interview status
        Wednesday, February 8th: Interviews conducted (evening). Please keep this date available if you apply to InSITE.

    3. Final Fellow selections are made after all interviews have been conducted. Selection is highly competitive. Applicants who were interviewed will be notified no later than 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, February 12th. All newly admitted Fellows must save the date for Orientation on the evening of Monday, February 13th or Tuesday, February 14th and the Company Selection event on Wednesday, February 15th. (See Calendar for further event details.)

    (1) Written Application
    To be considered, all applicants must complete the Fellow Application Form and upload one document that includes the three components of the written application. (See below.) Each portion of the application should be no more than one page. (Thus, your application should be a three-page document total.) Each page should include your full name, school, year of graduation, and page number in the top right header margin. The document should be .pdf format. Please name your document using the following convention “Full Name – School – Fellow App S2012.pdf”

    The Written Application Components:

    1. Resume: One page.
    2. Statement of Interest: One page answering the following: “What will you bring to InSITE? What do you hope to get out of InSITE? What kind of commitment can you make to InSITE?” If you have applied before in the past, please additionally mention at the end how many times you’ve previously applied, when you last applied, and what has changed since your last application.
    3. VentureBeat Article Analysis: One-page analysis of one of the VentureBeat articles listed below. The piece must address the following: “Analyze any investment that was completed. Would you have done the deal? Why or why not? What additional information would you want before deciding? What are the interesting issues involved with this deal?”
        While it is important to point out any additional information you would like to have before making a final decision, please take a position on the investment and strongly defend it using rigorous analysis based on the information provided in the article along with general industry knowledge and any of your own experience.

        You are not expected to do outside research to answer these questions. We are more interested in your analysis than your conclusions.

        Your analysis can be in bullet-point form, as long as rigorous thought is reflected.

      For the your analysis, choose one deal from the following articles:

      1. Buddy Media
      2. WhosHere
      3. ZocDoc

    (2) Interviews
    Interviews for all InSITE candidates will be the held on Wednesday, February 8th. Each applicant will be interviewed by Current Fellows or Alumni for 15-20 minutes. There will usually be 2-3 interviewers in the room.

    For the interview, no technical knowledge (such as higher math skills or industry-specific technology) will be required. It may be helpful, though, for applicants to understand the basic goals of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

    Dress is business casual. You really don’t have to wear a suit; we won’t be. All candidates will be notified by email of their final status no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern, Sunday, February 12th.

    As an applicant, you are expected to be in town and available for an interview in the timeslot indicated based on your degree-program. If you have a conflict, it is entirely at the discretion of InSITE whether to make alternate interview arrangements for you should you advance to the interview round. (Exceptions will be made for religious observance.) If you have an unavoidable conflict, please note this as an addendum to your personal statement.

    The InSITE Commitment
    InSITE is only possible with the participation and contributions of its Fellows. All prospective InSITE Fellows must be prepared to do the following once admitted to the program:

    1. Sign the NDA. All InSITE Fellows must sign a standard non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to protect the companies we work with during the year. Recognizing that the Fellows are sometimes involved with other companies during the school year, there is a mechanism to recuse oneself from any given company. If you are unwilling to sign a general NDA on principle, please do not apply.
    2. Serve on a Team. This requires the candidate to commit either their Tuesday or Wednesday evenings for the next two academic years to InSITE. If there is a class you simply must have on both Tuesday and Wednesday, in either the Fall or Spring term, this year or next, please do not apply. We will normally meet in Midtown between 7pm and 10pm, and we’ll often go out together afterward, so please leave your entire evening free. We do break for holidays as indicated on the schedule.
    3. Attend All Schedules Events. All Team Meetings, Speaker Events, Alumni Events, etc. are considered mandatory unless you have a class that meets at the scheduled time.
    4. Support Company Selection and Fellow Recruiting Process. These processes occur every semester in Aug/Sept and Jan/Feb. Responsibilities entail looking out for great startups and students to apply to the program as well as screening candidates and conducting interviews.
    5. Contribute One Blog Entry per Semester. You will be able to choose from a list of items or propose your own topic.

    These are only the minimum roles and responsibilities of the current Fellows and other responsibilities may arise as the program evolves. However, we recognize that our Fellows are students and take this into significant consideration.

    We seek candidates who are strong leaders and will help drive the organization during their Fellowship. After the initial semester, we expect our Fellows to serve as a Team Leader and/or an Officer. Even without a formal title, our expectation is that our Fellows constantly seek ways to improve or contribute to the organization.

    Application FAQ
    Still have questions about the application process or InSITE in general? Visit our frequently asked questions page. If you have further questions, you can reach out the our VP’s Recruiting at vp.nyu.recruiting@insiteny.org
    or vp.col.recruiting@insiteny.org.

    Notice
    We have attempted to make our decision process as transparent and fair as possible, but all decisions are final regarding the application process. InSITE reserves the right to accept or refuse any applicant as a fellow of InSITE. InSITE makes no commitment to any applicants of assured entrance into the organization.