My early morning interview was fairly short – 20 minutes – the interviewer had to be somewhere else. She was a 2nd year and seemed to have a list of generic questions that she went through. The interview was totally blind as I hadn’t even submitted my application at the time. The first was “This is your first visit to Tuck and you haven’t had a chance to sit in on a class or take a school tour. How do you know that Tuck is the right place for you?” The remaining were:
- Walk me through your resume
- Why an MBA? Why now?
- What are your short-term and long-term goals?
- How will Tuck help you to achieve them?
- What do you do outside work? What do you do for fun?
A couple of unusual questions were
- What will you miss the most upon moving to Hanover?
- What are you most proud of?
- What is the worst part about working in teams?
At the end, she clearly asked me if I wanted to cover anything else that she hadn’t already asked, and I took the opportunity to highlight a couple of things that hadn’t already been covered. Given the length of your interview, your answers have to be very crisp.
There were only 2-3 minutes to ask questions at the end because she had to run off somewhere else. She actually said that living in the dorms could leave you with little privacy – I hadn’t expected her to say anything negative about the Tuck experience.
