Tuck (Dartmouth) Hub

1. Walk me through resume 2. Why MBA 3. What industry after mba & why. 4. When you acted out of your comfort zone. 5. Hard message you had to give to someone at work. 6. Achievement at work. 7. Legacy you will leave behind. 8. job transition Why Tuck

INTERVIEWED TODAY, 1) WALK ME THROUGH UR RESUME, 2.) GOALS,3.) WHY MBA NOW, 4.) TWO ADJECTIVES ABOUT YOU,4.) ACHIEVEMENT, 5.) FAILURE, 6.) CHALLENGES,7.) WHY TUCK, 8.) QUESTIONS...40 MINS...

1. So walk me through your resume 2. What's your motivation for MBA basically she then explained what's a short term and long term goal is and asked me to explain my motivations 3. Why Tuck? 4. Ok, how would you contribute to tuck? 5. Tell us your proudest leadership experience 6. Tell us a time you had to deal with a difficult person 7. What are three things that made you successful? Those can be anything; share us anecdotes 8. Cool, tell us something that you would like to tell us, and I haven't asked 9. Tell us something you had to adapt to very quickly 11. Tell us a time where you did something to help someone and how uncomfortable was that 10. You have 1 minute since I am not allowed to go beyond this time; anything you would like to ask me?

Walk me through your resume Why MBA Why Tuck Short term and long term goals Most significant impact Difficult conversation Significant accomplishment Anything you might want to tell Any questions for me

Intros- small talk Walk me through resume Short and long term goals? Why Tuck? Why the MBA? How will the MBA help you achieve your goals? Professional accomplishment that you're most proud of? Strengths and weaknesses Leadership style? How would your manager and peers describe you? Anything else that you want to add? Questions and convo

Opened with introducing himself. Described the interview structure and how it will be conducted. 30 mins of talking + 10-15 mins of questions from me. 1. Walk me through your resume 2. ST LT Goals + Why MBA 3. Why Tuck 4. Situation where you didn’t know something and how did you deal with it 5. Situation where professional conflict 6. 3 examples – how would they describe you – a) supervisor/manager b)a peer c) someone you managed 7. Most impactful feedback that you have received and how did it change you 8. Most impactful feedback that you have given and how did it change them 9. Is there is anything in the application that you missed or want to additionally highlight 10. Tell me your overall life’s biggest accomplishment. 11. Questions for me.

Interview with 2nd Year Tuck student. She was an excellent listener and we had a very friendly chat. 1. Tell me about yourself? 2. Why MBA? 3. What are your short term goals immediately post MBA? 4. Why Tuck? 5. Tell me about a time you failed? What did you learn from it? 6. Tell me about a leadership accomplishment you are proudest of? 7. Tell me about a time you dealt with conflict? 8. What would your friends say are your biggest strengths? 9. Tell me about a time you went above and beyond your mandate? 10. Who is a leader you admire? Why? 11. Tell me something surprising that you learnt recently? 12. Do you have any questions for me?

Tuck interview with a 2nd year student. Very conversational and friendly. 1. Tell me about yourself? 2. Why MBA and why Tuck? 3. What are your short and long term goals? 4. What will you be involved with at Tuck? Interviewer had a few follow-up questions about my interests @ Tuck. 5. Tell me about a time you failed. 6. Tell me about your leadership style. 7. Tell me about your proudest accomplishment at work. 8. Any questions for me?

Interviewed with second year student over skype. Started with some small talk about our lives, current situation, etc. Then the student started with the questions that were supposed to be addressed: 1. Walk me through your resume. 2. Why an MBA 3. Why Tuck 4. LT Goals 5. What role do you tend to play in your organization. 6. Tell me about a time you received constructive criticism and how you reacted to it. 7. How would you contribute to tuck. 8. Any questions you want to ask me.

Interviewed with second year student over skype. It was very conversational and she asked lots of followup questions to my answers. 1. Walk me through your resume. 2. What is your biggest achievement and what did you learn from it. 3. Describe your leadership style. 4. What role do you tend to play in teams when you're not the leader. 5. Tell me about a time you received criticism and how you reacted to it. 6. Why you need a MBA and why tuck. 7. How do you see yourself contributing while at tuck. 8. Any questions you want to ask me. We ended up talking 5-10 mins about a club i mentioned and the effect of online classes on tuck experience.

I had a Skype interview with MBA2. Very friendly conversation. It was a blind interview. Started off with us talking about sports since both of us were student athletes back in undergrad. 1. Tell me about yourself in 60 seconds 2. ST/LT 3. Why MBA 4. Why Tuck 5. Tell me a time when you had a conflict with your colleague and how did you respond to it 6. What is your biggest accomplishment professionally 7. Who is a leader that you admire and why Good luck!

Like any other Tuckies, the 2-year interviewer was really nice in my interview. The first part was him asking me questions. This part seemed more like an interview, and he took notes. When I asked him questions, it felt more like a conversation to me. 1. Walk me through your resume 2. Why Tuck 3. What can you contribute 4. Tell me about time you had difficulty working with someone 5. Why BYU 6. What do you do outside of work 7. Tell me about your current role 8. ST/LT goal 9. If you don't get into an MBA this year, what's your plan? 10. Questions for me? Overall, I really liked our conversation. he provided very insightful answers about Tuck to my questions. I can see that he really believed in Tuck.

"AdCom initiated interview. I interviewed with a second year student over Skype/Google Hangouts. Overall very friendly. No real follow-up questions, less of a conversation as the interviewer was mostly going through his list. Started with an overview/introduction of himself 1. Walk me through your resume. 2. Why MBA now? 3. Why Tuck? 4. What are your short term goals? 5. Describe a situation when I received constructive feedback from someone. 6. What is your greatest accomplishment? 7. Talk about a time you took on a leadership role? 8. What is a time you went out of your way to help someone? 9. What are you most excited to engage with or do if you're at Tuck? 10. Any question that you believe I should have asked you about. 11. What are your long term goals? 12. Any questions you have for me?

Online with a second year student - Tell me about yourself - Tell me about your current role - What do you think has been your greatest accomplishment - Tell me about the time you made a mistake (follow-up - What is your though process during these kind of situations) - How do you think this has influenced your leadership style (follow-up question after the above question) - ST/LT goals and Why MBA - Assuming you are at Tuck, how will you engage at campus - What would be your legacy at Tuck after graduating - Anything else which we have not touched upon yet that you would like to discuss. - Any questions for me? Interview went on for 20-25 minutes. After that, I asked a few questions which went on for another 5-10 minutes. Overall, it was very friendly and conversational. I think it well. And I wish best luck to everyone else. Hope this debrief is helpful. Let me know in case you have any other questions related to the process.

Skype interview with a 2nd year MBA student. 1. Walk me through your resume. 2. Why MBA? 3. Why edtech? 4. Why Tuck? 5. How will you contribute to Tuck? 6. Tell me the most challenge you think you will face at Tuck. 7. Tell me about a time when you have taken an initiative at work. 8. Tell me about a time when you helped someone without them asking for it. 9. Tell me about a time when you received constructive feedback and how you reacted. 10. Tell me about a time when you had to deliver tough news to someone. 11. What has been your greatest accomplishment? 12. What was the dish you cooked the last time? 13. Do you have anything else you would like me to communicate to the adcom? 14. Any questions for me? The interview was friendly, the interviewer was nice, shared her experience a bit at the beginning and then the questions followed for 30-35 minutes. I answered every question using the examples I had prepared except the questions like "tell me about a time when you had to deliver difficult news to someone" or "the last time you've cooked something new." Overall, I kept speaking flawlessly, didn't really stop to gather thoughts or something, the ideas were just flowing in smoothly. And I smiled a lot, probably too much (but I joked about that and said that I was just excited).

On campus interview with a second year student. 1. Quick introductions and then a chronological resume walkthrough. 2. Short-term goals and what made you want to pursue this route? 3. Why MBA? 4. Why Tuck? 5. Tell me about a moment where you had adversity with a coworker or subordinate? 6. Tell me about a moment where you had adversity with a boss? 6A. More detail on the story. 7. What would your coworkers or boss give you as feedback for strengths and weaknesses? 8. What traits make you a good contribution to the future class? 9. When you are graduating and walking across the stage what do you want to be going through people's minds about you? 10. Any questions I didn't ask but you want to answer? 11. What questions do you have for me? Overall the interview was very conversational. Each of the questions flowed into each other and my interviewer also gave me anecdotes of how my experiences were similar to a recent lesson he had learned in the program. The total length of the interview was about 50 minutes.

Online interview with a second year student: 1. Take through resume 2. Short-term and long term | lot of probing in short-term 3. Why MBA 4. Why Tuck 5. What legacy will you leave at Tuck/how would you want your friends at Tuck remember you 6. A time when you had to mentor someone 7. A time at work when you received constructive feedback and your response 8. Questions I asked: Comparison with previous university and why rural place as they lived entirely in megacities 9. Any interesting career shift example 10. Short-term and long-term Finished in 20 minutes and I didn't go into rabbit holes. Then chatted for 25 more minutes about random stuff. I guess we connected because I also got more than one reference for a dual-degree programme I was looking. On the whole a very free-flowing conversation. I think I did well.

AdCom initiated interview. I interviewed on 15th April 2019 with a second year student over Skype. Overall it was more of a conversation and she really had some insightful and thoughtful questions to ask (specially the follow-up questions she asked). Overview: She started with her introduction. 1. Walk me through your resume. 2. What are your career goals, short-term and long-term? 3. Why MBA now? 4. Why Tuck? Then she went onto behavioral questions: 5. Tell me a situation when you had a significant impact on your organization. 6. A situation when I was asked to resolve a conflict or differing views on a topic (a couple of follow-up questions on my answer) 7. A situation when I received constructive feedback from someone. 8. Tell me a situation when I had a difficult interaction with someone (This question threw me off a little about as I was sort of not prepared for this one and no situation as such came onto top of my mind as well :D Eventually I explained one such situation. She then asked quite many follow-up questions to get deeper behavioral insights during the situation, specifically probably concentrating on nice criteria of Tuck) 9. How will I contribute to Tuck community? 10. What did you learn about recently? Any fact/news/books/articles etc. 11. Which criteria from Tuck's Admissions criteria of smart, nice, accomplished and aware resonates with you the most? 12. Any question that you believe I should have asked you about. Then she opened the floor to ask questions from her. Total interview lasted about 40 minutes. This was the most insightful interview that I had in the whole process over the last few months. I could have done better I feel, fingers crossed now! Hope this debrief helps all the applicants. Good luck!

I went up to Hanover, NH for DivCo (which I HIGHLY recommend) and did my interview then. It was mildly unfortunate in the sense that my interview was so early in the process (I hadn't even finished taking my GMAT yet) relative to the other full time programs I was looking at - just something to keep in mind. Hanover is far away and very isolated but amazingly beautiful. If you can, I highly recommend going to campus to interview as you will get a much different view of the school. I went into my interview right after I traveled to campus, so I was mildly frazzled, to say the least. (I had time to get to my room, change quickly, and head over). The interview itself is very casual. I met with a second-year student and he noted at the beginning of the interview that he would be taking notes on his laptop and that he was listening to what I was saying, but would not necessarily be making eye contact as he would be typing as I spoke. He asked the typical questions one would expect: - Why MBA? Why now? - Why Tuck? - Describe a time when you had to work with someone you didn't get along with. - What do you want to do post-MBA? All in all, it was a pleasant experience.

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