cvsmech wrote:
If someone can answer my question, i.e., Would it be worth applying to Tuck without visiting campus? Considering that there are only 250 odd admits every year. I am guessing most of them, if not all, would have visited the campus or attended the info session at some point.
Visiting the campus is a must. The applicant-initiated interview is "Strongly encouraged" and is a great opportunity to state your case in person as well as get a feel for what two years at Tuck will be like. Other than Duke and Kellogg, there aren't other top schools that offer this option.
Tuck wants to make sure you want to be at Tuck, and not just have an MBA with the Tuck stamp on it after graduation - what I mean by this is that they're trying to weed out the applicant who is merely applying to Tuck because it's a strong school. The Tuck experience will be very different from say Wharton, Columbia, Sloan or Harvard.
Also - 250 is the target class size...they admit roughly double that.
Hope this helps.