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Published: February 10, 2014

Tuck MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Early Action / Second-year student / On-Campus

I interviewed on campus after completing a campus visit. My interview was with a second-year student. It was a blind interview–she only had my resume. It was a very conversational interview. Here are the questions I was asked: -Walk me through your resume. -Why an MBA now? -What are your short-term and long-term goals? -How will an MBA at Tuck help you reach those goals? -What will you bring to the community at Tuck? -Tell me about a conflict you have had in the workplace. -What would you do if you had a member Read more

Published: February 2, 2014

Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business Establishes Alumni Advisory Boards to Increase School’s Global Reach

The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College thus year established its new Asian Advisory Board, one of three new alumni boards established in recent years to help expand the school’s global reach. The new boards, which are not charged with any governance responsibilities, are more nimble than traditional boards, allowing them to impact students’ and graduates’ lives immediately, the school says. In addition to the recently launched Asian Advisory Board, Tuck also now launched a Latin American Advisory Board in 2012 and a European Advisory Board in 2011. The boards are made up of alumni living or working in each region. Read more

Published: January 27, 2014

Tuck School of Business Students Team Up to Help Local Businesses

A student-run group at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business is putting what it’s learning in the classroom straight to work by providing volunteer consulting services to local businesses and nonprofit initiatives. Student-run Tuck Student Consulting Services (TSCS) brings current MBA students together with local organizations in need for volunteer consulting projects. So far this year, teams of T’15 MBAs have taken part in 66 projects for 15 organizations, according to a recent article on the Tuck MBA Admissions Blog. Read more

Published: January 14, 2014

Tuck School of Business Annual Conference Highlights Diversity for Prospective Applicants

Each November, students at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business host a conference designed to showcase the school’s diversity to prospective applicants. Called Divco for short, the student-run Diversity Conference has been bringing together prospective students from around the United States and the world for the past 20 years. Tuck first-year student Ryan Golden attended Divco last year as a prospective applicant, learning enough about the school to feel like it was the right place for her. “It just showed me this is a good place to be and that if I came I’d be really well supported and have a good experience,” she said in an article about the conference on Tuck’s website. Read more

Published: January 6, 2014

Tuck MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Second Year Student / Coffee Shop – Delhi

I submitted my application for the November Round and got an interview call about a month later. I’m an Indian applicant and one of Tuck’s second year students was in my city for his Global Consultancy Project. So he scheduled a face to face interview and emailed me a week in advance. We met in the lobby of the hotel he was staying at. The interview lived up to my expectations in terms of being very relaxed and conversational. The interviewer introduced himself in detail – where he is from, what he did before Tuck, and what he’s doing at Read more

Published: December 16, 2013

Tuck School of Business Professor Ranks Year’s Best and Worst CEOs

For the fourth year running, a professor of strategy and leadership at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business has released his picks for worst CEOs – adding a new twist this year by also sharing the five CEOs he deems the best of 2013. Tuck Professor Sydney Finkelstein has become an expert on CEO failures. Since 2010, he has provided an annual roundup of the world’s five worst top executives, and he has also published a book on the same topic, Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes. Read more

Published: December 3, 2013

Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business Sends Student Delegation to Climate Change Conference

Four of the past five years, Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business has been the only business school to send a delegation of students to an annual summit focused on climate change. Three second-year Tuck MBA students traveled last month to Warsaw, Poland, for the 19th Annual Conference of the Parties (COP19), sponsored by the United Nations. “Climate change is not only one of the central issues of our time, but it’s one in which businesses are front and center, both as the cause and the solution,” finance professor Anant Sundaram, who teaches the Business and Climate Change elective at Tuck, said in an article on the school’s website. Recognizing this, Tuck believes it is crucial to bring MBAs into the conversation and expects other business schools will follow its lead, Sundaram added. Read more

Published: November 26, 2013

Tuck MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Second year student / On campus

The interview was held on campus, by a second year student and lasted about 45 minutes. The interviewer created a very friendly atmosphere and started by talking about her background and experiences. She basically listened and made a few remarks about life at Tuck. 1. Tell me about you (I added “why MBA” and “why now” at the end of my answer) 2. Why Tuck? 3. Tell me about your teamwork experience. 4. Tell me about a difficult situation you have been through and how you handled it. 5. What legacy would you like to Read more

Published: November 10, 2013

Tuck School of Business May Add New Master’s in Management Program

The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College is exploring adding a new master’s in management program for undergraduates with liberal arts degrees, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports. The proposed program, which could launch by September 2016, was announced by Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon in a speech to faculty last week. The one-year master’s program would be open to anyone with an undergraduate degree and would provide a “high-level introduction to business,” Tuck Dean Paul Danos told Bloomberg BW. Dartmouth is currently examining a range of factors that will determine whether or not the school moves forward with the plan, including market data, student interest and logistical considerations, Danos added. Read more

Published: November 6, 2013

Tuck MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Early Action / Second-year student / Skype

Received interview invite for my early action application as I was not able to visit the campus (I’m international). The interview lasted for 36 minutes, very relaxed conversational interview. We had 20-25 minutes for his questions and the last 10-15 minutes were for my questions for him. Interview questions: 1) Walk me through your resume 2) Why MBA ( I covered long term, prior exp, MBA, short term) 3) Went in more details of Long term and how i am planning to achieve it 4) Why tuck 5) Example of a successful team you have Read more

Published: October 29, 2013

New Tuck School of Business Associate Dean Shares Plans for a “Transformative” MBA

Tuck School of Business accounting professor Philip C. Stocken stepped into a new role as the associate dean of the MBA program on July 1st, replacing M. Eric Johnson, who left to become dean of Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Business. In a recent interview published on the Tuck website, Stocken provides a glimpse of some of the initiatives he plans to focus on in his first year as associate dean, including changes to the core curriculum, a new mentorship program for international students and more. “Tuck has wonderful resources, and as an associate dean I want to help channel them towards creating a transformative experience for students,” he said. Stocken has coined this student experience the “Fabric of Tuck” – and he wants it to include better interaction both in class and between classes as well as stronger lines of communication between staff, faculty and students. He also has plans for an international mentorship program, in which faculty and staff mentor international students during their time at Tuck, as well as expanded international and small-group dinners, giving all Tuck students greater opportunity to share aspects of their personality and culture, he says. Read more

Published: September 27, 2013

Tuck MBA Admissions Interview Questions: EA / Second-year student / On-Campus

The following questions were asked: Walk me through your resume? Why Tuck? Why you for Tuck? Why do you want to pursue an MBA now? Challenging team experience and how did you overcome it? What are 3 strengths that your teammates would say you have? What are a couple of weaknesses that your teammates would say you have? Talk about a passion that might not be on your resume? And then she gave me about 5-10 minutes to ask her questions…. Read more

Published: September 24, 2013

Tuck MBA Admissions Interview Questions: EA / Second-year student / On-Campus

Approximately 30 minutes — 20 minutes questions for me, 10 minutes questions for her. Walk me through your resume. Did you choose your grad. school thinking you would join [unrelated industry that I’m currently in], or did you intend to go into [related profession]? What were your experiences at a rapidly growing firm? Why MBA now, given your good position in your firm? Long-term & short-term goals? Why Tuck? What can you contribute to Tuck? Questions for her. Overall, quite relaxed and friendly atmosphere–very much like the overall atmosphere of Tuck. Read more

Published: September 23, 2013

Tuck MBA Admissions Interview Questions: EA / Second-year Student / On-campus

Pretty similar to everything described on here. 25 minutes of questions, 5+ minutes of questions for her. Very relaxed and conversational, which was to be expected. The following were my questions, as far as I can remember: 1. Walk me through your resume 2. Why an MBA? 3. Why Tuck? –> This lead to a question of whether I picked my small, liberal arts undergrad because of its size 4. Extracurricular Activities at Tuck? 5. Time where you dealt with a difficult situation at work and what you did to respond 6. Long-term goals (had Read more

Published: September 5, 2013

Wharton Start-Up Expands to Lend to MBA Students at 20 Top Schools

A company launched last fall by students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School experienced success in its pilot phase, during which it served as a lender to Wharton MBA students and recent graduates, and so this fall will launch nationally to lend to MBA students at 20 top MBA programs in the United States, the Financial Times reports. Wharton student David Klien is chief executive and co-founder of CommonBond, which last year lent $2.5 million to 40 MBA students and recent graduates from Wharton using funds raised primarily through crowdsourcing. Now, the start-up has raised more than $100 million through debt financing and selling equity. It will expand to offer low-interest loans to MBA students at business schools throughout the country, including Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, Columbia Business School and others. Read more

Published: August 14, 2013

Career Services Director Q&A: Jonathan Masland of Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business

~ A CLEAR ADMIT EXCLUSIVE ~ In our continuing series of interviews with career services directors at top MBA programs, we recently spoke with Jonathan Masland, director of the Career Development Office at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Masland, who worked as an entrepreneur and investment banker before joining Tuck, explains that most of his team also comes from business backgrounds. For him, the role offers a perfect combination of things he enjoys. “I like counseling, working with students, business – this allows me to do a little of all those things,” he says. In the interview that follows, he shares more about some of the other members of his team and how they all pull together to help Tuck students in their career searches. In fact, even Tuck Dean Paul Danos plays a hands-on role in helping students find the jobs they want, Masland tells us. Read on to learn more, including why Masland thinks that Tuck students benefit from interacting with companies and alumni starting almost as soon as they arrive on campus as first-years. Read more

Published: July 22, 2013

U.S. News Ranks 10 Full-Time MBA Programs That Lead to Highest Student Debt

As part of its Short List series, U.S. News & World Report today took a closer look at the student debt load incurred by full-time MBA students graduating from top business school programs. According to data provided by schools as part of its annual ranking, U.S. News found that full-time MBA graduates in 2012 emerged with an average of $49,619 in debt. At the 10 schools where graduates incurred the most student debt, the average per student was $97,154. Graduates of New York University’s Stern School of Business top the list in terms of average debt. There, the average graduate has a debt load of $105,782. Six figure debt is also the norm for graduates from the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, U.S. News reports. Read more

Published: July 17, 2013

Tuck Alumni Give Record-Setting $6.3 Million in 2013

For the third year in a row, more than 70 percent of alumni contributed to the Tuck Annual Giving campaign at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, raising a record $6.3 million in the last fiscal year. The participation rate is nearly triple the average participation rate of nine peer business schools, Tuck reports. Achieving the 70 percent rate also triggered a $50,000 gift from an anonymous donor last month. “The generosity of our alumni is unrivaled and enables us to provide a truly transformational experience to each and every one of our students,” Tuck Dean Paul Danos said in a statement. The funds raised provide about 8 percent of the school’s annual operating revenues and direct support for innovation, Tuck reports. Read more

Published: July 10, 2013

Tuck School of Business Welcomes BlackRock Executive as Senior Fellow

Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business this month welcomed a top BlackRock Investment Institute executive as a senior fellow at its Center for Global Business and Government, the school announced last week. Peter Fisher, BlackRock senior director and a former top Treasury Department official, joined Tuck on July 1st. He will hold the position while continuing his work with BlackRock. At Tuck, Fisher will work with the center to build on Tuck’s connections to experts in the private and public sectors. He will also oversee research and analysis projects conducted by MBA students on topics at the intersection of business and government, and he will expand opportunities for Tuck MBA students and alumni who are interested in areas such as financial markets, public finance and monetary policy. Read more

Published: June 17, 2013

Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business Confers First MBA/MPH Joint Degrees

Two members of the graduating Class of 2013 at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business earned not only an MBA while there but also a master’s degree in public health (MPH). Kate Head and Catherine Augustyn were the first recipients of the new joint degree, which Tuck now offers in partnership with The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI). The new program is designed for students who want to combine Tuck’s comprehensive MBA program with TDI’s deep dive into health policy and clinical practice issues. “The combination of those two programs we thought would be a really terrific marriage,” Paul B. Gardent, an adjunct professor of business administration at Tuck and director of the joint degree program, said as part of an article published in Tuck’s online newsroom. The joint degree program is an outgrowth of the Health Care Initiative, an effort launched in 2008 to expand healthcare-focused courses and career resources at Tuck. Read more

Published: June 13, 2013

AIGAC Releases 2013 MBA Applicant Survey Results

The average applicant to business school spends between 90 and 140 hours on the MBA application process, according to findings from the 2013 Applicant Survey conducted by the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC). Excluding GMAT prep, applicants report that they spend between 70 and 110 hours on the application itself. AIGAC released the applicant survey results as part of its annual conference, which took place this week in Philadelphia. The association was founded in 2006 to promote high ethical standards and professional development among graduate admissions consultants. It conducts an online survey of MBA applicants each year to help its member graduate management admissions consultants and admissions committees at top business schools better understand prospective MBA students’ goals and needs. Read more

Published: June 2, 2013

Tuck MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / Skype

Had an interview with a member of the adcom. We started with skype but soon the connection at my end got real bad so we shifted to a telephone conversation. – Walk me through your resume (I guess this is standard for all Tuck interviews) – Stand up comedy, now thats interesting. Tell me more about how you got interested in it and what you do currently in this regard (I had put it in my Interests section) – What are your career goals? Why mba? Why now? – Follow up to why now (I had only Read more

Published: May 14, 2013

Tuck MBA Admissions Interview Questions: EA Round / AdCom / New Delhi

As a reapplicant, I was absolutely thrilled to receive my interview assignment during the visit of a member of the Adcom who would also be hosting a reception for interested students the night before. Interview Questions: Walk me through your resume (you should know this one really well. ,make sure you cover the entire resume and not just the job part of it) Tell me more about your work and your company (niche industry) Tell me about a challenge at work and ow you navigated it What are your three biggest strengths that you’ll bring to Tuck What is one Read more

Published: April 29, 2013

Tuck Associate Dean Leaves to Lead Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management

The associate dean for the MBA program at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business has been named the new dean of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, Tuck announced last week. M. Eric Johnson, a fixture in the Tuck community for the past 14 years, will assume his new post in Nashville on July 1st pending approval by Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust. “During his time at Tuck Eric was truly an academic leader at the school and an outstanding teacher,” Tuck Dean Paul Danos said in a statement. “He has been much beloved by students for his flair in the classroom and dedication to their personal transformation and by faculty and staff for his collegiality and wisdom," Danos continued. Read more

Published: April 14, 2013

Tuck MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Off-campus / Alum

The interview went well and it seems very promising. Hope to hear back soon with good news. The interview had quite a few people and the atmosphere was very somber. She asked me question about was were my plans for the future and about my education. My experience was very enjoyable and very surprised about how calm I became as the interview went on. There was not really surprises but just a relief that things went so well. Read more

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CLASS SIZE: 296

FEMALE: 44%

MEAN GMAT: 727

MEAN GPA: 3.6

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November 17, 2024 9:24am ET

Applying: Columbia, , Georgetown / McDonough, Harvard Business School, INSEAD, NYU Stern, Oxford / Saïd, Stanford GSB, UCLA Anderson, Yale SOM

Pre-MBA Career: Higher Education

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Media, Undecided Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey , JP Morgan , Morgan Stanley , JP Morgan Chase , Apple , Google , Microsoft , Andressen Horowitz , Charles River , Sequoia Capital , Blackstone , KKR , 21st Century Fox , Comcast , Walt Disney

GPA: 3.97

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: Denver, Colorado

Post MBA Location: New York City

November 16, 2024 5:16pm ET

Applying: ESADE, IE Business School, IESE

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Tech

Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology, Pharmaceutical Companies: Apple , Facebook , Google , Microsoft , Oracle , Johnson & Johnson , Novartis , Pfizer , Roche

GMAT: 525

GPA: 2.79

Years of Work Experience: 4

Post MBA Location: Europe

Notes:

Asian, female, USA. Top 10 Undergraduate school in USA, majored in Biomedical Engineering. Worked for Salesforce, Accenture, and Microsoft within sales department. Major accomplishments within sales roles. Strong personal essays. Letters of Recommendations from direct managers. Founder and held multiple leadership positions in school clubs during Undergrad. Just a really bad test taker and cannot seem to get my scores up no matter how many times I take it specifically in the quant section. American trying to stay in Europe post MBA and only applying to European B-schools.

November 15, 2024 9:32am ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, Minnesota / Carlson, UVA / Darden, Yale SOM

Pre-MBA Career: Insurance

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey , Other

GMAT: 505

GPA: 3.44

Years of Work Experience: 3

Post MBA Location: Midwest, Northeast

Notes:

GMAT Note:
* The score is an unofficial practice test. I am beginning my studies for the real thing now.

Undergrad Majors:
* Economics
* Business Management

Work Experience Notes:
* Insurance experience is at a family business
* I implemented data analytics into business operations since that was not a practice beforehand.
* I help with sales, customer service, bookkeeping, and marketing.

Extracurriculars & Volunteer Activities:
* Worked as an economics research assistant during my undergrad where I consulted public and private entities
* Was part of an economics research project that won a national award for its work in community economic development
* Published 2 university-sponsored economics articles
* During my senior year, I was appointed to a university faculty committee to help plan university award ceremonies and delegate student scholarships
* Won a leadership award from my university
* Economics honor society member
* President of a student club (1 year) and a club's Senior Advisor (1 year)
* Started and led 2 initiatives that installed free smoke alarms in rural area homes (received a leadership award from the American Red Cross for this)
* Ironman triathlete

November 14, 2024 8:16pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Cambridge / Judge, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, emlyon, IESE, Imperial, INSEAD, London Business School, Manchester / AMBS, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Hospitality

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Consumer Goods, Other Companies: Amazon , Apple , Google , Coca Cola , LVMH , Nestle , Nike

GRE: 326

GPA: 3.46

Years of Work Experience: 6

Post MBA Location: Consultancy

November 14, 2024 6:29am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Georgetown / McDonough, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Consulting, Capital Project Development (Renewable Energy/CCS)

Post-MBA Target Industry: Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Commercial Banking, Family Business, Entrepreneurship

GMAT: 664

GPA: 2.9

Years of Work Experience: 7

Notes:

Pakistani male, looking to get into the financial services industry short term, and long-term make a significant contribution to the family business or pursue entrepreneurship. Studied engineering from UT Austin for undergrad followed by three jobs (roughly 2 years each) and a nine month break in between job 2 and 3. Planning to take the GMAT again in 3 weeks to offset GPA. Goal score is 695. Mitigating circumstances around GPA are just illness and general family/self issues but doubt they will be very convincing.

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November 17, 2024 2:39pm ET

Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via email on November 11, 2024

GPA: 3.79

GRE: 321

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: Chicago

November 17, 2024 10:14am ET

Interview Invite to Stanford GSB

Round: Round 1

Received via email on November 14, 2024

GPA: 3.52

GRE: 322

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Technology

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Consortium applicant applied round 1

November 17, 2024 12:58am ET

Rejected at Columbia

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on November 14, 2024

GPA: 3.49

GMAT: 740

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: India

November 17, 2024 12:46am ET

Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via email on November 12, 2024

GPA: 3.49

GMAT: 740

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: India

November 16, 2024 12:19pm ET

Interview Invite to Northwestern / Kellogg

Round: Round 1

Received via email

GRE: 320

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: India

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