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Next person who gets a call needs to ask whether or not calls will go out tomorrow as well.

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3rd and last time asking... are calls made to cell phones or work phones too?

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3rd and last time asking... are calls made to cell phones or work phones too?

They called me to my work

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OK. Based on the numbers I've seen for 2016 Tuck Admits on on this excellent analysis by MBA Data Guru, I'm expecting a total of 25-40 applicants from this forum getting admitted. Now not everyone is going to post their success or update their profile immediately. That being said, we've only had 4 or 5 people say they've gotten a call so far. My understanding is that they attempt to call everyone who is admitted before around 5pm on Friday, and then around 5pm on Friday everyone else gets rejected/waitlisted by email. My interpretation of all this is that they've started doing a few calls today, they may do a few more this afternoon, but the bulk of calls will likely come tomorrow. I don't think it's logical to worry until we have closer to 15 or 20 people saying they've gotten in. I also realize though that humans are not purely logical creatures, which explains why I am freaking the heck out right about now and writing this long post to assuage my anxieties...

citations: tuck-dartmouth-class-of-2016-calling-all-applicants-151322.html
https://www.mbadataguru.com/blog/admissi ... ion-round/

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Well you did nothing to assuage mine! I'm here stewing in anxiety and resentment!

...I'm not good at patiently waiting...

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after MIT's stinger of a rejection last week I'm preppin' for another (at my #1 school)

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"Yeah no one on this forum is good at waiting. If we were good at waiting, we'd be, like, doing our actual work for our actual jobs or going to the gym or spending time with our loved ones or really anything other than being on this forum" she said while writing, and therefore being, on this forum.

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Well you did nothing to assuage mine! I'm here stewing in anxiety and resentment!

...I'm not good at patiently waiting...

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FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: Part I: Recruiting Advice for the Investment Banking Industry from CDO Expert Deirdre O’Donnell

Deirdre O’Donnell is an associate director of Tuck's Career Development Office (CDO).

Discuss how you’d prepare for fit interviews for the investment banking industry.

The first thing that’s very important is to understand what the desired skill set is for the industry. There are very standard competencies that all investment banks look for. They’ve all had consulting firms in to do studies on what makes the most successful people successful. The most importance competency is leadership, followed by quantitative ability, which means you have to be a logical problem-solver who is comfortable with numbers. Because of what you do as an associate, you really need to be somebody who takes a lot of personal initiative, which might be another thing they test for in the first round interviews.

The final round interviews for banking are usually with someone much more senior who is looking at you through a different lens. They are looking to see if you would be an asset in a meeting: are you client-facing? That’s a hard thing to prepare for. People are either socially adept or they’re not. It’s really a test of your listening skills and putting your client first, so they’re going to ask you fit questions that will address those things.

Doing a lot of mock interviews is essential. It’s a client-facing business, so you never want to sound rehearsed. To get comfortable, practice with second-years, the CDO, and with Tuck alumni who are currently associates at the investment banks. I’ve never seen a situation where someone hasn’t been willing to do mock interviews so there’s a lot of support.

Shed some light on technical questions that are asked in the investment banking industry.

We have collected a whole library of technical questions over the years. That’s complemented by the core curriculum where there are three key classes that help in this preparation: Accounting, Decision Science, and Capital Markets. The easiest way for banks to test whether or not you’ve got a grasp of the technical concepts is to ask for grades. Tuck’s a non-grade-disclosure school, but banks will typically ask students if they’re comfortable revealing their grades. If you don’t, they’ll assume the worst. They will also test your modeling skills and may have you walk them through a DCF or LBO model in an interview.

We bring up Training the Street before Winter Break to go through how banks do their models, how to work those models through Excel, things like that. We do it before Winter Break so that students then have those weeks to crunch through the 400 technical questions we have in our library and then use what they’ve learned in the Training the Street class. Also, the Finance Club does a tremendous job assigning mentors. Each second-year student might have three or four mentees and they will do a series of technical mock interviews with them until they’re comfortable with the concepts.

People who have a quantitative background don’t often get a lot of technical questions. The assumption is they’ve got a quantitative major; they’re doing well in the Tuck classes; they can do the work. It’s the people with nontraditional backgrounds who get the most technical questions. So they do have to work a little bit harder, but the second-years know that and they’re very supportive.

Tell me about the logistics of the typical interview process for the investment banking industry.

Typically, there are two interviews, a first round and a final round. Usually they’re one-on-one: one bank representative to one student. Sometimes they are two-on-one where they’ll have somebody who’s more experienced at interviewing and someone who’s new, as a way to train them. But the second person is usually there to listen, so in terms of your interaction it’s one-on-one.

The first round interview is usually with somebody at the vice president level to test your technical ability. Can you crunch the numbers? Are you detail-oriented? Can you deal with tight time frames? Can you prioritize because you’re working on more than one project? They’re looking at you in terms of what they need in an associate.

Assuming you make the final round interview, then it’s more the client-facing fit piece. Fit is important and even more so if you’re interviewing away from the bank headquarters. If you have interest in going to San Francisco or Houston, the offices are much smaller and you’re working long hours together in highly tense situations, so it is important for them to feel comfortable with you as a team member.

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Welp, cross your fingers for tomorrow!

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Congrats to all admitted applicants!

For those of you who got in, did your status changed on your application page? Or does it change tomorrow at 5 PM for all of us regardless of the call date / ding?

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It changes tomorrow at 5.

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Admitted!! Received the call around 3:45pm EST from Dawna Clarke. Based in the US, no scholarship, but excited about the admit! Also as someone mentioned above, can any of the admits PM me the admitted students website as well?? I was too excited to remember the address!!! Also, my app status has not changed either..I imagine it will all happen tomorrow!

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Based on the numbers I'm expecting and what I'm seeing in this forum, I bet about half of the calls went out today. The other half will come sometime tomorrow, so keep your fingers crossed!!!

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Based on the numbers I'm expecting and what I'm seeing in this forum, I bet about half of the calls went out today. The other half will come sometime tomorrow, so keep your fingers crossed!!!

I figure that the admit calls were sent mostly to U.S or America based on this forum.
I am wondering if there are somebody who got the happy call in north east asia? (Hong Kong, China, Korea, Japan?

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ok this is probably not it, but could it be at least SOMEWHAT alphabetical when they notify us lol? My last name is in the last quarter of the alphabet.. Folks who got called today, what quarter of the alphabet does your last name fall???

Thanks

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Have the calls reached India?

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Have the calls reached India?

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It does not appear that the calls have reached India. From the past posts in this forum, the calls to India and Asia should start early morning EST today.

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Dear all,

Been lurking around for a while but think should post an update. Got the call around 10pm Thursday 12/3 GMT+8 which was morning Thursday 12/3 EST. In addition 20k scholarship/year.

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