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Please double-space your response. 1) Why is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? Why is Tuck the best MBA program for you? (If you are applying for a joint or dual degree, please explain how the additional degree will contribute to those goals.) 2) Discuss your most meaningful leadership experience. What did you learn about your own individual strengths and weaknesses through this experience? 3) What is the greatest challenge or hurdle you have overcome, either personally or professionally, and how did you manage to do so? 4) Tuck seeks candidates of various backgrounds who can bring new perspectives to our community. How will your unique personal history, values, and/or life experiences contribute to the culture at Tuck? 5) (Optional) Please provide any additional insight or information that you have not addressed elsewhere that may be helpful in reviewing your application (e.g., unusual choice of evaluators, weaknesses in academic performance, unexplained job gaps or changes, etc.). Complete this question only if you feel your candidacy is not fully represented by this application. 6) (To be completed by all reapplicants) How have you strengthened your candidacy since you last applied? Please reflect on how you have grown personally and professionally. Early Action Round - Total Applicants: 74 Anandzz Nick2010 madeinafrica 2011 argodan malbec coffeeaddict Paros (reapplicant) alobar00 rahulsar SalarymanJ InPursuit chaitu69 cpandya14 kotz whylivelife jmcd2127 - self-initiated interview sacirema - self-initiated interview , MBA/MALD mba2011app - self-initiated interview ahs - self-initiated interview serhio - invited for interview! almostfamous - invited for interview! sophieP - invited for interview! purpleberret - invited for interview! xiao85yu - invited for interview! Admitted: stationc sniperardex ppop spdubs CMC251 abfob kevintay bschoolhopeful MGC dchicago sr222300 anshumanbhatia madmax Nick2010 estreet ani123 hemantsood bostongirl1818 pulandasu lunasea29 fatmba2013 WL: phillymba2012 lagsantiago Mukaam nhadpc futureconsultant rkn summitbid chireapplicant mba2013 sparkles279 inTuna ekalil SalarymanJ mbaaspirations rafilla442000 gopalansai Square mikebrady sexonthebeach150 mikebrady vampireking Dinged: bakfed mbahopeful2012 bschoolq2 widerangeinput TMS2012 knewton27 shakeweight R1 - November Round - Total Applicants: 48 mbaTime trv999 dc3828102 OrientalPrinzess whylivelife DUDERINO gkumar chostein LetsGetDinged cwhs - self-initiated interview tranceparent - self-initiated interview pianoman - self-initiated interview Nikita2011 - self-initiated interview amb2512 - invited for interview! aspirantpun - invited for interview! Admitted: yj123 gdsenator Shasta17 rafromero EBSIFounder agustinsrr CAK cwhs maridadi BurkinA TuckHopeful13 gmatchaser istan sb2011 WL: mks1984 Leafs12 Shalva twobeersameer shruga atul12345 carpediem0008 inlivingcolors biochemist Dinged: dc3828102 outdoorgearexchange MBADAWG13 freroht bennika atomic927 hamsandwich kegewe ATLapplicant Silvers R2 - January Round - Total Applicants: 61 widerangeinput tyemaishu thewaves21 ballubalraj 5pm vnbui Sidhant alpeshvc sivaavis theExpat abhishekg82 missjj walich123 suppati buckleberry VictoryMBA - Consortium nyxjf - self-initiated interview vixer - self-initiated interview mbadream2011 - self-initiated interview letmein - self-initiated interview nxanand - invited for interview! DexterStJacques - invited for interview! (Consortium) manojgro - invited for interview! indianmba - invited for interview! 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Guys, you may know from previous years.

What is the success rate after being interviewed at Tuck? Some schools admit from 40% to 60% of interviewed folks.
I am wondering what is the historical "after the interview" acceptance rate for Tuck?

thank you

Probably like 25%. Tuck interviews a lot of people.

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The thing is like 90% of the people interview. So, it's hard to get an admit rate from those who are interviewed. 40-60% might be possible for those who are invited to interview.

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The thing is like 90% of the people interview. So, it's hard to get an admit rate from those who are interviewed. 40-60% might be possible for those who are invited to interview.

Lets calculate then:

total around 2000 applicants , interviewed 90% or 1800 people, you say from 40% to 60% are admittted so it is about 720 (40%) or 1080 (60%) if the yield rate is about 60% it means that 720*60%=432 attend Tuck, ut we all know that the class size is 250 people.
So your assumptions seems to be wrong.

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The thing is like 90% of the people interview. So, it's hard to get an admit rate from those who are interviewed. 40-60% might be possible for those who are invited to interview.

I didn't say 40-60% of the 90%. I said maybe 40-60 of the people invited to interview. 90% are not invited to interview.

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I didn't say 40-60% of the 90%. I said maybe 40-60 of the people invited to interview. 90% are not invited to interview.

sorry I did not understood you well enough. but 40%-60% seems to be pretty sexy rate

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Probably like 25%. Tuck interviews a lot of people.

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how did you arrive to that figure ? it seems to be a big difference 25% anf 60%.

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Probably like 25%. Tuck interviews a lot of people.

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how did you arrive to that figure ? it seems to be a big difference 25% anf 60%.

I did a sniff test. I figured that if their regular admit percentage was 20% and that they interview a butt load of people then their ratio of admits to interviews is probably only a few points higher than their overall admit percentage.

Let's see how far off it is from a more logical estimate.
https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/ra ... /tuck.html

2528 people applied. 20% of roughly 506 persons were admitted. I assumed that 85% of applicants interviewed (I'd say 10% just didn't self initiate and then weren't invited and another 5% were invited but weren't really all that interested in the school). .85*2528 = 2149 total interviewed. 506/2149 = 23.53%... Not too far from my 25% number but really 23.53% may be too generous.

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What are the Tuck interviews like? Questions?

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Does anybody know if Tuck plans on holding firm to their 3/18 D-Day? Or do they typically call applicants in the days leading up to the decision date.

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they call applicants a couple days before

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or the day before

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Can the Indian applicants invited to interview and/or accepted, share their profile. I think I will be applying next year and wanted to get a feel for whether I need to improve my GMAT score.

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Can the Indian applicants invited to interview and/or accepted, share their profile. I think I will be applying next year and wanted to get a feel for whether I need to improve my GMAT score.

I am not Indian nor do I have a higher GMAT score than you, but I thikn a good gauge is that if you think you need to increase your score to better your profile and you haven't taken it 3 times then you should take it - ESPECIALLY if you're below the average. I would not use the sample size of this message board to determine whether or not I would need to retake the GMAT.

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Can the Indian applicants invited to interview and/or accepted, share their profile. I think I will be applying next year and wanted to get a feel for whether I need to improve my GMAT score.

Having taken the GMAT twice, I am not sure if I want to go through the grind again, unless I am convinced otherwise. You have a valid point that the data set may not be representative, but I just want to use it as a pointer.

From what I have heard candidates are grouped on the basis of their nationality so the average of the "male Indian Engineer" group maybe way above the overall average. If I am within 20-30 points of my group I may not retake the exam; however if that differential is in excess of 40 points then I will definitely re-take the GMAT.

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But if you go with that argument won't you be compared to those with similar profiles, which you stated yourself skews higher.

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But if you go with that argument won't you be compared to those with similar profiles, which you stated yourself skews higher.

How much higher is the point: 20-30 points higher, I wouldn't bother about it.

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Median: 720

Middle 80% range GMAT scores:
From: 670
To: 760

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GMAT scores:
Mean: 716
Median: 720

Middle 80% range GMAT scores:
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To: 760

I already know that from B.W. This is the overall average...I want a feel for the GMAT scores of successful Indian candidates. LoL....we are running in a loop money9111....thanks for replying anyway.

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ok.. well i tried lol... i will say that whatever the average is this year... add a couple points to it because it will definitely go up next year... i've said my peace... going back to work :-)

best of luck

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I didn't say 40-60% of the 90%. I said maybe 40-60 of the people invited to interview. 90% are not invited to interview.

sorry I did not understood you well enough. but 40%-60% seems to be pretty sexy rate

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Probably like 25%. Tuck interviews a lot of people.

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how did you arrive to that figure ? it seems to be a big difference 25% anf 60%.

Tuck has two types of interviews:

self-initiated: almost all domestic applicants with true interest in this school will conduct. So the acceptance rate of this is really low (I guess it's lower than 1/4) because everyone has an interview.

invited to interview: some domestic and most international applicants (33% !!) will have this one. So it's probably around 50%, just like every other schools where people are interviewed by invitation only. But we'll never know as long as Tuck doesn't give us the number: too many factors, such as domestic / international application ratio and admit ratio, numbers of each type of interview sent, and numbers of admits through each type of interview, etc. Of all those factors, we only know that 33% of matriculated students were international last year.