Tuck (Dartmouth): Class of 2016- Calling all applicants!

Thanks. Congrats on your admit - enjoy Hanover

Waitlisted...

Dinged.

Saw it coming with no interview invite as an international.

Congrats again to the admits and good luck to the waitlisters and other round applicants.

Damm Hamm0, sorry to hear you didnt get in, we actually have a VERY similar profile so now I'm beginning to worry as I submit for Round 2

I got dinged as well. Congrats to the admits and good luck to all the WL's!

Congrats new Tuckies! There are so many of us waiting to meet you with open arms.

Also, Tuck really made a mistake on Hamm0. I've seen a lot of applicants come through and I can surely say he would have been an asset to the class and an alumni who would make us proud.

Dinged

Shocked but oh well. Tuck never my first choice but still not fun to get bad news.

Congrats to all the admits!

On to Columbia!

Now that I have had a chance to think:

Congratulations to all the admits; you deserve it ten times over! I hope that this community played a small part in your victory today.

I had a gif saved for today, in case I got in. I knew exactly which one I wanted to use.

HOWEVER, I didn't get in, and I became very unhappy and upset. I had worked so hard, AS DID MANY OF YOU. I don't have to go into the details, because you all get it. You all worked hard and poured your soul into your application, and for many of us it simply didn't work out how we imagined. I notified many of my close friends and family about the outcome and received many statements including the words "don't worry" and "sorry," but I really didn't find a whole lot of comfort in their words. However, something else extraordinary happened. I received PM's from various social media and public messages on this forum from people that I have "met" on this journey; something I did not expect. In many ways, it means more to me, because we are in this journey together, we are sweating together, and we are bleeding together.

As I read the messages, my mood changed. I thought that I am actually pretty lucky to be in the WL column; I'm sure many people that were dinged would prefer to be WL'ed. I realized that I am pretty lucky and should be very grateful of my position. And then I thought, I'm actually pretty lucky to even be applying. I come from a small town on the West Coast and now have a great job in a metropolitan area. The fact that I'm even IN THE ARENA is pretty great. I've had a lot of successes (as many of you have had) and quite a few failures along with them (as many of you have had). But I'm grateful to be in a good place in life, and to be in a place that allows me to help others.

So for me, tonight was a win. Here's the gif:

Great post gbrooks. Agree 100%. This whole process has been incredibly humbling and full of self-reflection. Good luck through the WL

I empathize with you. Same here. Was waitlisted last year and did all the things they asked me to do during my waitlist feedback and reapplicant feedback sessions. After other disappointing results from other schools, I feel defeated, and will need to come to terms with the fact that b school is not in my future.

This is probably the exact thing I needed to read. I have been wait listed too.

Thank you.. Hope that all of us on the waitlist can do enough to move from the waitlist forum to the accepted forum...

One of my favorite quotes that I have seen from gmatclub.com is from NonYankee: "I do feel that many on these forums tend to miss the forest for the trees"[1]

Guys - There are other schools besides Tuck! Just because Tuck dinged you does not mean you need to give up on your advanced degree aspirations. Yes, I agree that Tuck is a great school with an awesome alumni network, but it is not the only tree in the forest. There are still plenty of schools that will provide you with the same opportunities that Tuck can provide. BSchool is just a step that we, motivated professionals, utilize in order to achieve our ultimate career goals. If Tuck doesn't want to help you achieve your career goals, find another tree that will.

In addition, there is a round 2! Yes, I know it is approaching very quickly, but if you leverage the chip on the shoulder that Tuck just gave you, you can still put together a solid application to another school or two.

[1] - the-2012-2013-zero-admit-club-144164-40.html

In@Tuck

Asian Male, 27. Never did a campus visit or something....

Now, I am facing the dilemma between Tuck, Darden and Cornell....

It's simple. Go to Tuck

Really though, it is very worth your investment to visit these schools for their respective Admitted Students Weekends.

Yeah, I almost made my decision in favor of Tuck... But I am thinking if Darden grand me the scholarship, it will then become Sophie's choice...

I applaud the spirit and good intentions of your encouragement, but I think it oversimplifies the situation a little bit. A person may have unique goals that really make the "trees" where he or she applied the best places to achieve those goals, and other "trees" not worth the price tag of attending there. Or a person may have a background where really this year was the last year. Here, I'm mainly thinking of age. As an over-30 candidate, applying again next year for a third time, being one year older, would just make it even harder to get in somewhere.

So while I was a bit dire in my post where I said b school was not in my future, and I don't mean to be completely down on your post, I just wanted to explain where I was coming from.

Congrats to those who were admitted and commiserations to those that did not get in or were waitlisted. As a Nov round applicant (who looks to have bombed down in R1) I am dreading the next 7 weeks.

Hamm0 - so sorry to hear about this one. I knew you bled green but whatever happens you have found at least one great home in Johnson.

gbrooks - you've been great fun. Hope you get off that waitlist!