Tuck School of Business,
Dartmouth
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Tuck Dartmouth Application Deadlines
Early Action
Deadline: October 13, 2010
Notification: December 17, 2010
Round 2
Deadline: November 10, 2010
Notification: February 4, 2011
Round 3
Deadline: January 3, 2011
Notification: March 18, 2011
Round 4
Deadline: April 1, 2011
Notification: May 13, 2011
Tuck Dartmouth Essays
Although there is
no restriction on the length of your
response, most applicants use, on
average, 500 words for each essay.
Please double-space your responses.
Have a halt before starting to write application essays for Dartmouth Tuck. Consider the qualities you think you have to qualify for the program. Then close your eyes and summon up incidents from life that best illustrates those. Read the total set of essay questions and find appropriate occasions to distribute your qualities among those. Make sure that you avoid repetition and allot the right example to reveal the right traits of your persona.
Tuck Dartmouth
Essay 1: Why is an MBA a critical
next step toward your short- and long-term
career goals? Why is Tuck the best
MBA program for you? (If you are applying
for a joint or dual degree, please
explain how the additional degree
will contribute to those goals.)
Essay Tips: You can break this one in two vital parts; ‘why MBA?’ and ‘why Tuck?’ In the ‘why MBA’ part you have to take the additional responsibility of including your short-term and long-term goals as well. Although there is no restriction on word limit, yet if you settle for a standard of around 500 words for each essay then for this one it should around 250 for each part.
Keeping that in mind the ‘why MBA’ part should be more concise and focused. You can briefly mention an overview of your career if needed, but most importantly relate your short-term goals and long-term goals with your decision to pursue MBA. State specifically which sections of a MBA course will contribute in your voyage towards achieving goals.
As for the ‘why Tuck’ part, you can adopt a more elaborating writing style. This is good place to share personal experiences like visit to campus, interactions with students, your online and offline researches, etc. As the committee wants to know why this is the best MBA program for you, it will better for you to mention some unique features of Tuck and discuss how those will add to your development.
Tuck Dartmouth Essay 2: Tuck
defines leadership as “inspiring
others to strive and enabling them
to accomplish great things.”
We believe great things and great
leadership can be accomplished in
pursuit of business and societal goals.
Describe a time when you exercised
such leadership. Discuss the challenges
you faced and the results you achieved.
What characteristics helped you to
be effective, and what areas do you
feel you need to develop in order
to be a better leader?
Essay Tips: Select a real life incident that has the potential to cover all the queries of the committee. Half the battle is won once you succeed to recollect an appropriate story. It can be something like winning a football championship by a team effort led by you or anti-drug campaign in your locality headed by you. Make sure that the experience led you to ride roller coaster of challenges and that you did a great job as leader by motivating others. Try to discuss every single important move of yours including your thought process at that time. If you think that you could have done better in some areas, mention those with special importance.
Tuck Dartmouth Essay 3: Discuss
the most difficult constructive criticism
or feedback you have received. How
did you address it? What have you
learned from it?
Essay Tips: Unlike the most common MBA essay question that wants you to reveal what you learnt from a mistake, this one seeks to know what you learnt from a criticism. The approach for this one will be a little different from that of a typical mistake essay. When you learn from a mistake you discover your faults on your own, but in this case, someone else is pointing at your mistakes. Therefore, here you need to show that you have the temperament of accepting positive criticism and working on those. So, for this essay briefly describe the mistake and the criticism and then most importantly highlight on your reaction part. Lastly talk about the steps that you took to rectify your faults and your lessons from that.
Tuck Dartmouth Essay 4: Tuck
seeks candidates of various backgrounds
who can bring new perspectives to
our community. How will your unique
personal history, values, and/or life
experiences contribute to the culture
at Tuck?
Essay Tips: Tell the adcom about some of your specialties apart from academic and professional excellence. Tuck is not only a school; it’s a culture. Firstly, you have to prove that you are well aware of its values, principles, culture and community. You surely need to do adequate research on the topic before answering this. Giving examples from your real experiences about Tuck will not be a bad idea, but be aware of repetition, as you have already faced a similar situation in Essay-1. Having done that, you have to speak about your uniqueness. You may have special skills or uncommon background or anything that will give the committee a reason to prefer you out of the mass. This essay is your chance to share that.
Tuck Dartmouth Essay 5 (Optional): Please provide any additional insight
or information that you have not addressed
elsewhere that may be helpful in reviewing
your application (e.g., unusual choice
of evaluators, weaknesses in academic
performance, unexplained job gaps
or changes, etc.). Complete this question
only if you feel your candidacy is
not fully represented by this application.
Essay Tips: This essay is a great opportunity for those who have some weakness in their application. The committee has clearly mentioned that any significant limitation of a candidate needs explanation through this essay. So, if you have one then this optional essay is more like a mandatory for you. Besides, if you think that some aspect of your character still needs focus to familiarize your complete persona to the admission committee, then again this essay gives you a fair chance to do that. On the whole, most of the candidates will find a reason to attempt this one.
Tuck Dartmouth Essay 6 (Reapplicants
only): How have you strengthened
your candidacy since you last applied?
Please reflect on how you have grown
personally and professionally.
Essay Tips: This is the typical reapplicant essay and is a great chance for re-applicants to show that they have worked out on their previous mistakes. List the changes that have strengthened your profile. Stress on strategies you followed and the actions you tooks to imporve your candidature e.g. you shifted your domain from software development to business development or pre-sales or you started an onlien venture which helped you acquire new skills. While discussing about your improvements, stress on both your personal and professional growth.
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