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trystwithmba,

If you have doubts about Tuck's location and small size then it is definitely not the school for you. It's one of those schools where you really need to convince them you understand their uniqueness and feel the fit is good. I recommend demonstrating that by visiting the campus if possible. Tuck seems to be Indian-friendly. In recent years Indians have been its largest international student group: roughly 17 out of each 240 entering class.

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trystwithmba,

If you have doubts about Tuck's location and small size then it is definitely not the school for you. It's one of those schools where you really need to convince them you understand their uniqueness and feel the fit is good. I recommend demonstrating that by visiting the campus if possible. Tuck seems to be Indian-friendly. In recent years Indians have been its largest international student group: roughly 17 out of each 240 entering class.

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Paul - I found your comment regarding Tuck and its need to be convinced of its uniqueness and fit interesting.

Among the top 10, (H/S/W, Columbia, MIT, Kellogg, Tuck, NYU, Haas, etc), which would you describe as schools similar to Tuck in the sense that one really needs to demonstrate a solid understanding of the school's uniqueness to have a good shot (as opposed to schools more heavily weighted towards the strength and merits of the individual's profile).

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Well, if you really want to maximize your chances of admission then you will treat all the top 10 schools (with the possible exception of HBS) as if they were Tuck: that is, schools that need you to explain the fit to them and that need you to show you understand why they're unique. But I do think that schools like Tuck, Stanford, MIT, Cornell, and Yale, among others, merit some "special pleading"--some indication from the applicant that you have really done the due diligence and understand that these are not schools for everyone.

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pbodine wrote:
Well, if you really want to maximize your chances of admission then you will treat all the top 10 schools (with the possible exception of HBS) as if they were Tuck: that is, schools that need you to explain the fit to them and that need you to show you understand why they're unique. But I do think that schools like Tuck, Stanford, MIT, Cornell, and Yale, among others, merit some "special pleading"--some indication from the applicant that you have really done the due diligence and understand that these are not schools for everyone.

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This is great, thanks Paul.

Why did you single out HBS? Are they less sensitive to what you each applicant thinks of them?
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They don't ask applicants to explain why they want to attend HBS anywhere in their essay set. They don't especially care to know why you want to attend HBS because, well, HBS is HBS.
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