Tuck of Dartmouth - 2009 Q&A

[世界和平]

Hi Polarbear,

要來之前，請記得聯絡我。

現在可說是Hanover最美的季節，很多遊客也專程從南邊北上來賞楓，若在附近，千萬別錯過了！

Hi Nick,

我就是眾多遊客之一，我上星期跟其他同學利用long weekend到White Mountains一日遊，不過似乎天氣還不夠冷，所以楓葉還不夠紅~~

希望有機會能到Tuck走走，跟您見面聊聊!

[chihlung_h]

Hi Rick,

首先，我真的很認同你對campus visit的看法，如果時間和金錢允許，我也是建議applicants能到心目中的學校看看。我知道campus visit不是件容易做的事，不過MBA可是個數百萬，再加兩年青春的投資，若以同等金額的花費來看，如買房子、買車，我想一般人應該都會把房子一看再看，或是要試車試個幾次後，猶豫再三，才會做決定，那為什麼申請MBA就只要參考一下排名，再看看網站，就可以做決定了呢！

今年Tuck收了三個台灣學生，不過只有我一個人來，所以勢力稍嫌單薄了些，希望明年會多些生力軍。

說到teamwork，"Team Fuqua"真是不同凡享。我還記得去年我到Fuqua時，有十個人圍著我，熱情地回答我的問題，幫我準備interview。這經驗讓我感動萬分，也讓我認真地想在第二輪申請Fuqua，可惜惰性戰勝理智。我在12月中收到Tuck的offer後就不想再做任何的application，也錯過了機會和你做同學，希望未來不久，我們可以有機會見面聊聊。

[chihlung_h]

Hi 世界和平,

你禮拜去white mountain了，真羨慕你，我已經聽很多人說到那裡的美景，只是還抽不出時間去。

我們這裡的楓葉也還沒全紅，不過已經很美了，歡迎你隨時來看看，不然就是等我去Boston採買時，再找機會碰面聊聊了。

[vc1209]

Hi Nick,

不知道能不能分享一下面試的經驗呢? Was it blind? What questions were asked?

非常謝謝!!

[chihlung_h]

說到intervew，我是去年11月初到Tuck進行on-campus interview。事實上，我到的日子已經比website上公佈的interview deadline晚兩個星期，不過我早在一個半月前就和學校聯絡，所以admissions office就給我這個遠來的applicant一個優惠 - 讓我可以在deadline之後進行early round的interview。

Tuck採用 blind interview， interviewer基本上都是2nd year students。而我當初在進行時，是和一位二年級的女生，我們大約聊了三十分鐘多一點。她主要是在基本題和我的resume之間穿插，再加上一些follow-up questions，如為什麼我會這麼做或下這樣的決定。

在基本題方面，我記得她問了:
1. Please introduce yourself
2. Why MBA (I answered Why Tuck here)
3. Goal
4. Teamwork experience
5. Failure experience
6. Contribution to Tuck

在resume的部分，我覺得她是挑一些她有興趣或她有疑問的部分問我。她問了一些有關Job, Extracurriculum 和Personal interest的細節。
而惟一一個讓我覺得意外的問題是在interview的後段，她問我：Suppose the interview is finished. I walk out the room and meet the admissions officer, what'd you like me to say about you? 而最後就在她回答我三四個問題後，結束了這一場interview。

整個過程，我覺得大致可說是平順，因為大部分的題目都是早就有準備。不過，首先我那天舌頭一直打結，講得不是很順，再加上我跟interviewer的互動似乎少了些，讓我在 interview完頗感鬱悶，幸好最後結局完美！

[boredjimmy]

Hello Nick,
I'm Jimmy, don't know if you remember me but our workshop had the pleasure of having dinner with you prior to your departure to Hanover. Thanks for all these great info, really appreciate you taking the time from your already busy schedule and englighten us with your own Tuck experience.

I received an invitation for interview on Saturday (Friday afternoon EST), it is a phone interview with a 2nd year student. I was wondering if there is any tip that you might share with us besides the ones that you have listed on the previous entry...(is there any taboos that I SHOULDN'T bring up during the interview, per se?)

And I was wondering for those of you who are located at Taiwan and also received an invite, are you also interviewing with 2nd years over the phone?

thanks Nick & best wishes.

[boredjimmy]

Hello Nick,
I'm Jimmy, don't know if you remember me but our workshop had the pleasure of having dinner with you prior to your departure to Hanover. Thanks for all these great info, really appreciate you taking the time from your already busy schedule and englighten us with your own Tuck experience.

I received an invitation for interview on Saturday (Friday afternoon EST), it is a phone interview with a 2nd year student. I was wondering if there is any tip that you might share with us besides the ones that you have listed on the previous entry...(is there any taboos that I SHOULDN'T bring up during the interview, per se?)

And I was wondering for those of you who are located at Taiwan and also received an invite, are you also interviewing with 2nd years over the phone?

thanks Nick & best wishes.

[chihlung_h]

Hi Jimmy,

Congratulations on your invitation. I still remember the night! You guys were so amazing to organize such a strong supportive group. It's my pleasure to share my two cents with you.
However, I have to admit that right now I hardly remember your faces so wherever you see me, feel free to stop me and help me refresh my memory!

Speaking of interview, I don't think there is any magic and trick. So we still need to go back to interview 101:
1. Make sure you have one or two convincing and passionate "Why Tuck." Tuck understands that she's not a well-known school in Taiwan so if you can convince your interviewer, he/she may think you're just another "normal" applicant who follows rankings to apply .....
2. Know well the "strengths and weaknesses of Tuck." Like location, class size, academic focus, alumni network.....All of these can be either strength or weakness so be careful....
3. Teamwork, leadership, integrity, people and community are the values we respect and practice here so don't say you have problem with team or don't feel like to contribute.....
4. Maybe you've already had tons of mock in-person interview, but phone interview would definitely be a different experience. Try to do it at least once before Friday!

Gook luck!

[boredjimmy]

來分享下跟Tuck的電話面試吧..

我的面試人因為種種原因遲遲打不通我的電話,後來只好用skype,也因此晚了30分鐘才開始,心情大受影響.

他一開始就問我resume上面他有疑問的問題(why did you get a Master's degree in engineering?),我也就順便把我的career path to date跟他講了下. 再來就問了工作上的conflict resolution,和 outside of work activities. 很快30分鐘就過了,想多聊下他就急著要掛電話,我想可能是下一個interviewee已經在等他了吧.

overall 我不覺得我講的很好,該講的點(why mba why tuck) 都講了,聊的其實也有說有笑的, 不過沒有把我這個人比較特殊的經歷講出來,我想是比較可惜的一點.

希望對還沒面試的朋友們有幫助.

[donahue922]

來分享下跟Tuck的電話面試吧..

我的面試人因為種種原因遲遲打不通我的電話,後來只好用skype,也因此晚了30分鐘才開始,心情大受影響.

他一開始就問我resume上面他有疑問的問題(why did you get a Master's degree in engineering?),我也就順便把我的career path to date跟他講了下. 再來就問了工作上的conflict resolution,和 outside of work activities. 很快30分鐘就過了,想多聊下他就急著要掛電話,我想可能是下一個interviewee已經在等他了吧.

overall 我不覺得我講的很好,該講的點(why mba why tuck) 都講了,聊的其實也有說有笑的, 不過沒有把我這個人比較特殊的經歷講出來,我想是比較可惜的一點.

希望對還沒面試的朋友們有幫助.

Hi Jimmy,

感謝你的分享，我跟你差不多時間收到phone interview invitation. 但是
到目前為止還沒有收到email來約時間，我已經寫信問過，但我想要面試的
人可能真的太多了... 想請問一下，從你收到email到真正電話面試隔了多
久呢？謝謝！

[donahue922]

剛剛PM10：30結束了我的phone interview，大概花了一個小時， 面試我的人是二年級的學生Eduardo Olivares，是一位智利人，人很親切，也真的很感謝他給我很多時間選擇，讓我不用凌晨起床面試，我被問到的問題如下：

1.Career progression
2.Why MBA
3.Why Tuck
4.Why now
5.A failure experiece when I was a leader
6.How will I contribute to Tuck
7.Three words I want my classmates at Tuck discrible me after graduation.
8.The best accomplishment I did in workplace

然後我大概問了三個問題。

整體過程沒有任何壓力，他也很有耐心的聽我講完我的回答。希望對之後要面試的人有幫助，謝謝！

[donahue922]

剛剛PM10：30結束了我的phone interview，大概花了一個小時， 面試我的人是二年級的學生Eduardo Olivares，是一位智利人，人很親切，也真的很感謝他給我很多時間選擇，讓我不用凌晨起床面試，我被問到的問題如下：

1.Career progression
2.Why MBA
3.Why Tuck
4.Why now
5.A failure experiece when I was a leader
6.How will I contribute to Tuck
7.Three words I want my classmates at Tuck discrible me after graduation.
8.The best accomplishment I did in workplace
然後我大概問了三個問題。

整體過程沒有任何壓力，他也很有耐心的聽我講完我的回答。希望對之後要面試的人有幫助，謝謝！

我被ding了，從CD跟Businessweek的論壇中，我發現今年被錄取的人的背景都真的很強，AT也有越來越高的趨勢，目前我看到被錄取的AT最低是730...雖然感覺很失落，但是也是輸得很服氣，只能看如何再增進自己的實力...好像沒有人被ding還分享自己的背景，但我想也許這對之後要申請的人也是一種幫助，所以我還是分享一下-

GMAT:710/5
TOEFL:263/5
工作經驗：預官（19個月）、產物保險經紀人（至明年六月，44個月，工作上雖然有很多機會跟外國人聯繫，但是很少有實際海外出差的機會，雖然我強烈表達這是我想申請MBA的原因之一，但似乎還是我的缺點之一...）
GPA：3.37
第一輪申請：Kellogg、Tuck、Ross、Fuqua
面試：Kellogg、Tuck
Ding: Tuck
Pending: Kellogg、Ross、Fuqua （Ross跟Fuqua都沒有給面試機會，所以應該是等同於被ding，Kellogg雖然有面試，但是機會很小，所以我第一輪應該是全軍覆沒了...）

其實我本來一直認為越早申請的機會會越高，但是我現在改變了我的想法，我覺得第一輪申請確實是很好發現自己缺點的時候，在這段時間中，我發現了自己不少在書面上可以改進的地方，所以我很後悔我在第一輪就把大部分我喜歡的學校給申請完了，至於essay，我並沒有找essayedge來改，而是找沒有MBA背景的外國朋友來幫忙給意見，我本來想也許這樣反而會有不一樣的感覺，但後來我發現，也許照MBA所喜歡的方式來寫還是很重要的。

目前還沒有聽說有台灣人被Tuck錄取，希望這只是被率取的人沒有公布而已，真的很希望能有越來越多台灣人被肯定。雖然我被Tuck ding了，但是我大概可以感覺的到Tuck想要的人是怎樣的，所以如果有人找不到人可以幫忙給意見，只要不在意我是被ding的，我很願意幫忙的。

最後，還是要特別感謝Nick大對我resume的一些指導 !

[boredjimmy]

thank you Donahue922 for sharing your experience. Like you, my results came this morning and I was WL'ed by Tuck. I suppose there's a part of me that is hoping eventually I will be admitted, but mostly I feel the oft-talked about frustration of not receiving a closure from this process. (much like a bad breakup )

Tuck is definitely a great institution, and from my personal experience, it boasts some of the friendliest students. I encourage all applicants who are thinking about applying to Tuck in the later rounds to plan for school visits if time permits. I think one of the weaknesses in my application package is that I never had the chance of visiting, and although I spent much time researching and discussing with others, I could not talk as in-depthly about 'why Tuck' as those who did visit.

Like Donahue922, I am also more than happy to help those with Tuck application questions, albeit my WL status.

[donahue922]

thank you Donahue922 for sharing your experience. Like you, my results came this morning and I was WL'ed by Tuck. I suppose there's a part of me that is hoping eventually I will be admitted, but mostly I feel the oft-talked about frustration of not receiving a closure from this process. (much like a bad breakup )

Tuck is definitely a great institution, and from my personal experience, it boasts some of the friendliest students. I encourage all applicants who are thinking about applying to Tuck in the later rounds to plan for school visits if time permits. I think one of the weaknesses in my application package is that I never had the chance of visiting, and although I spent much time researching and discussing with others, I could not talk as in-depthly about 'why Tuck' as those who did visit.

Like Donahue922, I am also more than happy to help those with Tuck application questions, albeit my WL status.

Hi Jimmy,

加油啦！祝你順利被扶正喔！

[chihlung_h]

Hi dohahue922,

真遺憾聽到這樣的消息。不過，彌足珍貴的是你已經在第一輪的申請過程中發現了一些錯誤和盲點，我想如果你可以吸取這些經驗，第二輪一定會有一些好結果，只是可惜今年秋天就沒有機會在Hanover看到你了。

非常感謝一直以來你在這個版的熱心貢獻，尤其是在收到rejection後，還願意將你個人申請的經驗和想法分享給其他的申請者，更是難能可貴。此外，我還要對你願意對其他申請中或準備申請的人提供意見這點，致上萬分謝意，我想不管結果好壞，你對Tuck的認識和了解，絕對可以對其他人提供寶貴的助力。

最後，若你覺得有我能幫地上忙的地方，請不用客氣。



Hi Jimmy,

Although WL is not a very satisfying result for you, it's definitely a positive message. Early round only account for around 1/3 of total enrollments. There are still 2/3 vacant spots out there so you still stand a good chance in the later rounds.

My suggestion is that contacting the admissions offices ASAP. You should ask if they have specific concerns with you, and showing your passion and commitment to Tuck.

Feel fee to contact me if you need any help!