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Hey people,

When you visited Tuck and had an interview, did you bring your business card? Mine went out and it takes about a month to get new ones....eefff

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It is not expected that you have a business card. It's not like you give them your own business card and they keep a file of them. Chances are, it ends up in the trash. They are the ones that hand out the business cards.


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In addition to the business card question (I ran out..),

can someone tell me weather it's better to have an on-campus interview before or after application is submitted?
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It does not matter whether you interview before or after your interview. The only piece of your application that the interviewer sees is your resume. So, it truthfully does not matter if you interview before or after submission of your application.
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can someone tell me weather it's better to have an on-campus interview before or after application is submitted?
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Since you get asked questions similar to the essay questions, I would make sure you are at least fairly confident in the content you will be including in your essays. Interviewing slightly before the deadline may give you additional material to add to your essay whereas applying after you submit will ensure you have strong answers to questions they will be asking.

I guess it just depends where you feel you can use the benefit. The only thing I would recommend strongly is to not interview to far in advance until you have had time to at least run through several drafts off all the essays.
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Tuck 2012 - Calling All Applicants 28 Nov 2011, 08:09
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In addition to the business card question (I ran out..),

can someone tell me weather it's better to have an on-campus interview before or after application is submitted?
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I would say that the timing doesn't really matter. The interview has to be completed before the app deadline and they don't start reviewing apps till the deadline anyway. May be best to visit/interview first so you can work details into your essays.
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can someone tell me weather it's better to have an on-campus interview before or after application is submitted?

Since you get asked questions similar to the essay questions, I would make sure you are at least fairly confident in the content you will be including in your essays. Interviewing slightly before the deadline may give you additional material to add to your essay whereas applying after you submit will ensure you have strong answers to questions they will be asking.

I guess it just depends where you feel you can use the benefit. The only thing I would recommend strongly is to not interview to far in advance until you have had time to at least run through several drafts off all the essays.
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I agree with the strategy of interviewing slightly before the deadline (week or two). At that point your essay responses will be solidified enough that your answers to interview questions will parallel the themes in the essays. More importantly though, it would be to your benefit to include relevant information that you learn from the interview into your essay responses. And even if you don't end up weaving the interview or information from the interview into the essays, it will at least give you the option.

Also, if you haven't visited Tuck before, you will want to do the class visit/interview before the application deadline. Spending the day at Tuck will help enrich your application.
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Thanks. Am just feeling unfair and limited chance to get in.
It is hard to believe that this kind of cheating is somehow common in MBA application.
We did not see any scandal in the past few years, right? They all survived and could have been working at a prestige company with good pay.
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Agreed with your point, and too with some of the opinions of the GMATClubbers - all that you can control is your own actions, so put your best foot forward. I understand your frustration, but quite honestly, you don't have to have cured cancer, or saved a company from ruin to get into a top school :)

As for AdComm's not caring about dishonesty, I don't think that is accurate.

Sure, there is the subjective "they have had many years of experience, so have a sense of what's real and what's not", how much faith people have in that statement varies.

However, most schools also carry out some form of background check on admitted students. (I do not have any official word on this from a school source, but a simple search on this and other forums will yield numerous discussions about this topic). As in anything, there are some applications that sneak through, but it would be logical to think the majority are filtered out.

Think about it, AdComms should care about the quality of incoming students.

Think of B Schools as a workflow:

The AdComms control the input (students), the faculty, staff, career office process the input, and the output is an employable graduate. The feedback loop is that the employable graduate does great work, and further adds to the prestige of the school.

If the AdComms are loose on selecting the right input, then the system does not work. Bad input->Bad output->Bad for school.

So, the Admissions team must work hard to assemble a class of the most high-potential candidates because they have to meet the expectations of the school, AND those of the recruiters. Schools need to be able to place their graduates in the market.

A lot of the "prestige" of schools come from the work their alumni have been able to accomplish, and schools care about this. As an AdCom I wouldn't bet on an applicant whose stories I feel are fake. Would you?

So saying that AdComms don't really care about fabricated applications is a disservice to them, because it is in their best interest to care about fabrications, and they do.

As for not seeing a scandal in recent years, maybe there aren't as many fake applications as we think? ;)
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I disagree with your statement that the most high-potential candidates get selected.
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Conditionally agree - basically highest potential candidate from race/gender/industry/sex/etc etc etc....then again, this is a subjective process - one man's high potential is another man's ordinary, and there is some level of dumb luck randomizing the results.

What I was merely attempting to point out is that as much subjectivity there is to the process - it is in the AdComms best interest to admit "real" students.
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From what I understand, the interview asks several questions about working in a team (tell me a time when you managed a team, talk about a time that you had to deal with team conflict, etc). Are these questions specific to professional experiences or do they allow the applicant to answer them with examples from EC's, class projects, etc? Thanks.
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From what I understand, the interview asks several questions about working in a team (tell me a time when you managed a team, talk about a time that you had to deal with team conflict, etc). Are these questions specific to professional experiences or do they allow the applicant to answer them with examples from EC's, class projects, etc? Thanks.
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While Tuck does not admit candidates directly out of undergrad, there will be some applicants who are on the younger side who have not had the opporunity to manage or lead a team in a professional work environment. If this is the case, it is more than appropriate to discuss leadership experience within an EC activity. If you have both leadership experience within a professional work environment and EC activity, I'd lean towards discussing your professional work experience unless your EC leadership is fantastic. This of course is personal preference, I would imagine an adcom can best answer this question.
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Does anyone know if Tuck normally declares results on the day mentioned on the website or have they in the past declared the results earlier than that ?

I am waiting on Early Action results :)
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Does anyone know if Tuck normally declares results on the day mentioned on the website or have they in the past declared the results earlier than that ?

I am waiting on Early Action results :)
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From what I remember last year, they start letting admit calls go out the week of the deadline. Since the deadline is a Friday I would assume any day that week is fair game. I do believe the first reported call on gmatclub was a Wednesday. So 2 days before the deadline with admit calls coming right up to 5PM EST on the day of the deadline.
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Does anyone know if Tuck normally declares results on the day mentioned on the website or have they in the past declared the results earlier than that ?

I am waiting on Early Action results :)

From what I remember last year, they start letting admit calls go out the week of the deadline. Since the deadline is a Friday I would assume any day that week is fair game. I do believe the first reported call on gmatclub was a Wednesday. So 2 days before the deadline with admit calls coming right up to 5PM EST on the day of the deadline.
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Thanks rgupta83. All the best :)
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Hey all. Been on here for a while but this is my first post. 29/M/760/3.18/Ivy/Math/Air Force Officer. Tuck EA applicant, invited to interview via Skype due to my assignment in Korea. Waiting like the rest of you! Best of luck to all, wish we could all get in!
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I'm in Uijeongbu (CRC), working with the Army. I'm a Meteorologist.
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Submitted for the November Round.. Applicant initiated interview on Nov 09... Now long wait before the results in February
My application says 'Completed on Nov 19' (which is because my recommendations came in late, I had already requested an extension on the dead-line for reco). Do they change the status to completed and under review or does it stays like this till the decision notification week?
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hey guys
I am waiting for EA result too. Since I am a re-applicant from last year and my interview being waived, it is really a long time to get that phone call.
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I am waiting for EA result too. Since I am a re-applicant from last year and my interview being waived, it is really a long time to get that phone call.
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about ten more days to go. hang in there buddy!
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I am waiting for EA result too. Since I am a re-applicant from last year and my interview being waived, it is really a long time to get that phone call.
about ten more days to go. hang in there buddy!
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10 really long days.... :wink:
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I am waiting for EA result too. Since I am a re-applicant from last year and my interview being waived, it is really a long time to get that phone call.
about ten more days to go. hang in there buddy!

10 really long days.... :wink:
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hey guys
I am waiting for EA result too. Since I am a re-applicant from last year and my interview being waived, it is really a long time to get that phone call.
about ten more days to go. hang in there buddy!
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tks buddy, hope we can meet each other next year @ hanover.
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I am a reapplicant from last year too.. I ended up reinterviewing with them.

This and the next week will be the longest! Best of luck all.
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so after the application and interview have been done and said, is anyone doing anything else to stay in touch with tuck and keep on the up and up or is everyone just sitting and waiting?
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