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Tuck 2019-2021 Deadlines
	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
Application Deadline	Sep 24, 18	Jan 7, 19	Apr 1, 19
Applicant-Initiated Interview Deadline	Oct 26, 18	Feb 1, 19	Apr 5, 19
Final Decision Notification	Dec 6, 18	Mar 14, 19	May 9, 19

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Class size: 293 (44% women)
Average GMAT: 722
GMAT Range: 620-780
Average WE: 63 months
International Students: 37%

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Well, I cannot wait for December 6th to find out decisions!

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Best of luck to you! I will be applying there next year and from what I’ve seen of the school thus far, I love it!

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Is it just me, or does it seem like activity here is muted compared to prior years? Are lesser people applying?

Activity is certainly not muted here. May be the current crop of Tuck applicants are less willing to discuss/share updates with other applicants compare to the folks applying in prior years.

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I guess as an R1 applicant from India I should give up hope of receiving an interview invite, then?

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Hi guys. I just finished my interview and class visit today.
Ill be sure to write up my experiences soon.

In summary, It was a fantastic experience and I highly encourage international applicants to visit Hanover!

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AUSJ Looking forward to the write-up. Can you also add your interview debrief here? https://gmatclub.com/forum/tuck-194/int ... brief.html

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Adcom initiated interview debrief

Getting there

I took the dartmouth coach up from Boston early in the morning. The ride was around 3 hours total and was fairly pleasant. The coach was surprisingly comfortable with wifi, toilet and reclining seats.
I highly recommend the coach if you're coming from Boston or NYC, however make sure you get your tickets in advance. Both my ride to and from Hanover were sold out the prior day. Luckily I got my tickets a week before hand. I arrived in the afternoon and was tired so didn’t do much the night before the interview. Read over some notes quickly and tried to chill out with netflix and some herb tea

The morning

My day was scheduled to start at 8 30 am with a class visit and applicants expected to arrive at the admissions office around 8 15.
Due to jet lag, I was up at 5am so had plenty of time to get up and get some breakfast from Lou’s Bakery(highly recommended by the way). After eating I went for a walk around the campus and familiarised myself with where Tuck was on campus so I wouldn’t get lost. I ended up arriving around 8am to the admissions office and was the second person there. We were given our schedules for the day and admissions marked us off the list. By 8 15 the room was full with about 12 -15 people. There were a few other International applicants - Some from East Asia and some from India. However majority was domestic students

Class Visit
At 8 25 my guide showed up and took me to the class I was sitting in on. I sat in on a core accounting class that ran from 8 30 to 10. I have never studied accounting and didn’t really understand what was going on, however the professor seemed engaging and the class appeared more like an open discussion rather than a lecture. It seemed like a great way to learn.

Interview

After the class visit, I had around 15 minutes before my interview was scheduled. My interviewer showed up at 10 15 on the dot and took me to the room and we made small talk about my flight and what not on the way.

The interview was with a second year and was very relaxed. We had 30 minutes for interview and 15 minutes for questions. The 30 minutes flew by and we covered a lot of ground so make sure you are succinct in your responses. The interviewer already had a copy of my resume (although I don’t believe they have access to the other parts of my application; essays, transcript, gmat etc) and had already read through it.

The questions were all fairly standard with the walk me through your resume,
why mba, why tuck, what are you most excited about outside of academics, how will you contribute to the study group, when have you had to give feedback, when have you received tough feedback.

It was very flowing and they don't appear to throw any curveball questions at you, so nothing to be stressed about. However make sure you have interesting questions prepared as 1/3 of the interview time is allocated to questions. I truly feel the purpose of the interview is to know your personal side and your motivations for Tuck.

Lunch and Tour

After the interview I had an hour of free time before lunch. I mostly just chatted to other applicants and walked around the dartmouth campus.
At lunch we sat in a class room and sandwiches and fruits were provided. We were joined by some first years who talked more about their experiences so far. After lunch was a tour provided by a first year who walked us all around tuck. It’s deceptively big and is all interconnected with tunnels which I thought was interesting

Takeaways and observations

Tuck is really remote. Like really remote. If you are coming from a major city you may find it difficult to adapt. Understand this before applying. However the campus is beautiful and has a lot of charm to it. Things close very early which I found weird coming from a city where most things are open 24 hours

The students seem amazing. All the interactions I had with students seemed very genuine and authentic. They obviously love being at tuck and they will go out of their way to make you feel comfortable. Whilst I was walking around during the day I got lost on campus. A first year approached me and asked if I needed any help with directions. We ended up having a chat for 10 minutes about Tuck life and even gave me some interview tips.

Lack of diversity. I was a little disappointed about the lack of diversity at tuck. Maybe it was just the class I sat in on but everyone seemed to be White American. There was a handful of Asian/Indians in the class and no coloured people. It seemed about 90% of the class was white. This was a little off-putting and made me think about tucks international strength and reputation. Diversity is an important criteria for me and within that class I didn’t really feel it. I need to do more research here.

Sense of community
You can really feel that all the students known each other and are always helping one another. I could definitely feel a strong sense of community, almost like everyone was a family.

Worth the visit
Overall Im very glad I decided to visit. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in Hanover. I encourage those, particularly international applicants who aren't familiar with US culture to visit tuck. The day was very well run and informative and gave me a much deeper understanding of what Tuck is about

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Thanks for sharing AUSJ. I am glad that you enjoyed the trip to Upper Valley. I believe Tuck's student body is actually more diverse and if you had the opportunity to attend the Tuck Diversity Conference, you would totally see that. Best of luck with your application this year.

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Agreed. It's difficult to know diversity from just one class. What stood out most for me is the tiny number of non white students.
However if we do some rough analysis. Tuck has a class size of ~280 with 40% international.
That brings it to 112 international students spread across 4 class sections of ~75 which is roughly 28 int students in each sector. Assume half those int students are from non white countries and it brings us to roughly 14 asian/indian/african students in each core class. This is roughly about the number of non white students in the class I counted, however the above analysis fails to take into account asian americans / african americans, so in theory it should be much higher than 14

So to your point, in the class I observed the ethnic diversity was well below what I was expecting. Not that there is anything wrong with this. It's just something that stood out to me

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I visited Tuck back in September and also had the opportunity to attend a class. I actually had the same reaction. There were surprisingly few people of color in my class, particularly women of color. Another prospective student and I chatted after the class visit and she commented on the exact same thing. I agree that there is nothing inherently wrong with this because it's a limited sample, but I (and others) definitely noticed.

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Tuck actually has a very strong relationship with the Consortium so I hope more URM students will join the school but I definitely can assure that the school really focuses on diversity, even with its small size (< 290 students). I had the opportunity to attend the Tuck Diversity Conference (a.k.a. DivCo) last week and got a amazing experience.

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I guess as an R1 applicant from India I should give up hope of receiving an interview invite, then?

I have the same question, any hopes for the interview invites for Indian applicants now?

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I guess as an R1 applicant from India I should give up hope of receiving an interview invite, then?

I have the same question, any hopes for the interview invites for Indian applicants now?

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Until you get the rejection email there is always hope.

However I would take a guess that as the deadline date approaches ,your chance of getting an interview approaches zero

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Congratulations to everyone who has already applied and good luck regarding your decisions!

For those who are still planning to apply to Tuck and are just not sure when they can finally let go of their application and click submit here are some tips:

How do I know when my MBA application is finished?

1. Is your resume in the template of the target MBA program?

This is a super easy way to fit in, and demonstrate your commitment to the school. Plus, it creates sort of a cognitive dissonance for the adcom to read a resume in their school's template and then reject that student -- essentially causing the document they are viewing to disappear.

2. Does your whole application tie to one simple story?

You are not under oath. You do not have to tell the whole truth, so help you god. In fact, explaining every part of your job, explaining every reason for why you pursued every opportunity, or listing the many divergent career options that interest you will not help your application, but hurt it. Your application is telling a story, and the best stories are simple linear ones. The best story characters are have clear motives and take decisive action. Often the key to telling a great story in your application is not to add things in, but rather to cut out all extraneous details.

It is also important for every part of your application to tell the same single story, from your resume to your recommender. If your essay is all about working in renewable energy, but your resume is all about finance, the adcom might not think that you're all that credible. The easiest decision that the Adcom can make is to not admit you.

3. Have you mitigated your weaknesses?

Your application is an argument and the best arguments bring up the opposing case and offers counter points. Do you have a lower GPA? Find space in the application to explain why that is the case and what you have done subsequently to prove that academics are no longer an issue. Is your work experience less impressive? Then point out all the ways in which your employer, position, client, or projects were impressive. Ignoring your weaknesses is not a winning strategy. The adcom will still see them, they just won't have the benefit of your counter argument.

4. Have you connected your candidacy to a larger problem you're trying to solve?

Adcoms don't like "admitting students" so much as they like "funding solutions to problems." In that way, you can think of them less like hiring managers and more like venture capitalists: ready to provide funding and mentorship to entrepreneurs out to tackle big markets. If you are able to argue that you have spent your career fighting to solve a specific, important, and urgent problem (ideally one that resonates with Tuck's unique values) and that you are now poised to achieve the next level of impact, if only you were equipped with the unique resources that Tuck has to offer, you will be a much more credible candidate than a generic professional looking to go to graduate school.

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Dec 5, 2018. Wednesday. Live Chat with Tuck Admission Directors

Hi Guys, Tuck team will be in our chat room in the first week of December. We invite all of you to participate in this chat session and ask your questions/doubts about the school/ application to Tuck adcom. Event details are given below.

Look forward to all applicants in the chat.

Date & Time: Wednesday, Dec 5, 2018; 12pm Eastern Time (5pm GMT, 10:30pm IST)
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Tuck team members participating in this session

Amy Mitson - Sr. Associate Director of Admissions
Stephanie Butler - Assistant Director of Admissions

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The day before they release the R1 decisions? Aren't they presumably going to be busy calling accepted students?

Oh really? I didn't know that this chat is happening just ahead of decisions.

Anyways, perhaps the team calling admits is different from the one participating in this chat.

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Got an interview invite just now. From India

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First, congratulations! and best of luck! Do you know who's going to be taking your interview and when it's scheduled for?
Second. Thanks for sharing the news, gives me some hope that all is not lost haha.

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