A recap of my Tuck interview…
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I had a telephonic interview with a second year Tuckie in the first week of Jan’08 – what a way to start the new year 
After the pleasantries, we moved on to the expected “take me through your resume” question, which flowed into the Why MBA and Why Tuck threads. Frankly, I dont know why these took as long as they did, but the interview lasted about 40 min!
After the pleasantries, we moved on to the expected “take me through your resume” question, which flowed into the Why MBA and Why Tuck threads. Frankly, I dont know why these took as long as they did, but the interview lasted about 40 min!.
I think I did okay on the main resume question, as well as the Why MBA part. I’m not too happy with my answer to Why Tuck, as there were so many reasons, but I ended up giving only one – the people, and digressed…. I’ve heard this ‘fit’ is the most important question, so that scares me a bit, but otherwise it was a nice interview on the whole.
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I guess now its a wait to Feb 8th, to see how nice …
The fit part is definitely important as schools are very different and Tuck has a unique environment.
But that’s not the only data point for an admission. Hang on in there!
You would know that interviews are difficult to predict. I think if you do well in the Why MBA question, half the battle is won. I think you have a very strong case if you have adequately talked about the fit with Tuck in your essays.
Once I get over with this process, I will write a really long post on ‘FIT’.
Hey There,
Good to read about your Tuck update. I havent been able to put up mine. But it was similar to your interveiw, only a bit shorter about 25 mins.
By the how was the general tenor of the interveiw? ive heard generally Tuck interveiws are quite conversational. However, in my case it did not happen that way.
(. more like my interveiwer asking questions and listening to my replies with not much counter questioning ( rather none at all). How did it go for you?
And yeah dont worry about the why tuck part. I guess if you have been able to give even two reasons with sufficient conviction, should be good. You need not give 100 reasons there i guess.
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All the best for 8th Feb to you.