Dartmouth Tuck MBA 面试汇总（2009-2010）

myice

Tuck面经：Phone interview on Feb., conducted by a second-year student

事先沟通了一下能不能用skype, 对方说只能用电话，但通话效果确实比较差。面我的second-year比较会调节气氛，开头闲聊了一下，然后才进入主题。
问的问题很中规中矩：
1）Introduce yourself;
2) Why MBA;
3) Why Tuck;
4) Leadership example;
5) failure;
6) contribution;
7) Q&A

个人感觉essay很关键，比如Tuck的那个 feedback一定要用心写，到了面试很大程度只是kick some people out了；然后Tuck这个学校很在意Why Tuck, 所以感兴趣的TX真的要下点功夫。Hope it helps.

myice

[quote]Alumnus

Hi all, Here is my experience:

Location: Brazil
Could you choose the interview's location?: No.
How long was the interview?: 40 min
Who was the interviewer? / Position (if alumni, class of): CEO/ T91’
How did you prepare?: Mock, Reading essays
Did you receive any feedback at the end?: No.
What was your opinion of the Alumni/Office Personnel?: Friendly.
Did anything change your opinion of the school? : No.
Was there something you wish you had known ahead of time: No.
Questions:

I read your cv, but please tell me your history.
Why ?
What do you like at ?
You have done a post graduation course. Why?
You have a solid business education, why MBA? How can it help you?
Question about leadership.
Question about teamwork.
What do you plan to do after the MBA?
Why Tuck?
How do you see yourself in a small town?
How do you know tuck compared to other prospective schools (he mentioned he was not allowed to ask or know which school I applied).
What will you do if you don’t pass in any school? Will you apply again next year?
Another language or just portuguese and English?
What do you bring to Tuck Community?
Another info:

Interview was in his office. I didn't mind.
The guy remembered me from the info session.
At the end, he let it slip that the fact that I have interacted with 3 alumni gave me a good vision of the school.
He told me that the interview should be conducted in english. In the past, it could be in portuguese.
Hope it helps. My MBA Path Applicant-initiated interview

myice

Early Decision, Re-applicant, phone interview

Location : KL, Malaysia. Decision : Admitted As a re-applicant i applied in the Early action round (For Fall 2006) - Since i can't make a trip to Tuck, i opted for phone interview with a 2nd year student on 10/Nov/05. Naturally i was nervous, as i am an international applicant phone interview poses some challenges to me. Of the bat i told the interviewer that i was nervous yet excited about the interview. Interview took the time to put me at ease. Here are the questions:-

She can't find me resume on the computer. Thus resorted to asking me to walk her thru my resume. It was a bit difficult as she was not a technical person.
Why do you need an MBA and particularly why Tuck and why now?
What can you contribute to Tuck?
Have you experienced a ethical dilemma? What did you do?
Any questions for the interviewer. Which i did. I asked her what she liked most about Tuck? And how Tuck improved her leadership skills?
I was told likeability is important factor that goes into your interview evaluation. Thus make sure you are in good mood.

Signing off, JoshuaMy

myice

sd 12/20/2005: Interviewed on campus with a second year student.

The interviewer picked me up from the waiting area and we headed off into one of the admissions offices so the whole situation was very informal. Questions:

Walkthrough of resume. (He interrupted me to ask me about some specific details of certain international experiences and what I'd learnt from them).
Why MBA? Why now? This was the standard long term/short term goals question.
Why Tuck? I spoke about some experiences I'd had speaking to Tuck students and alumni. He happened to know my student contact so we spent sometime chatting about that.
What was your greatest accomplishment?
Example of a great leader, and what do you think made him great?
After your first year how would your team mates at Tuck describe you?
Finally he asked about a detail from the extra-curricular section of my resume.
We ended on a light note chatting about what his MBA experience had been like, about Tuck and Dartmouth in general.

Overall tips - know your resume, know why you want to go to Tuck specifically. also be very clear about why you want to leave your city X and move to Hanover.

myice

Early action round (For Fall 2006) - Phone interview with a 2nd year student on 01/Nov/05.

I was never comfortable during the interview. I figure I am better in a face-to-face interview than in a phone setup. The questions:-

Walk me through your resume.
Why MBA/Tuck/Now?
How do you know if you are a good fit for Tuck?
Examples of teamwork.
How do you handle a diffilcult team mate?
If you had one year completely off, what would you do?
Any questions for the interviewer.
The interview lasted about 20 mins. It did not help at all that it was Diwali night in India with loud firecracker noises in the background. It was a very average interview for me and it showed in the final result, I was dinged. I guess Tuck's interview is more of a fit interview and you must know a great deal about Tuck to be able to convincingly demonstrate why Tuck?

myice

1/11/06: December round phone interview with second year student on 1/4/06.

The call came on time at 8:45pm and the interview took about 35 minutes (my interviewer had an 8:30am class, 9:30pm my time). Questions asked:

Question about one of my extracurricular activities.
Why do you need an MBA now?
What do you want from an MBA program?
How do you see yourself contributing to Tuck?
Give me an example of a time when you set a goal and what you did to achieve it.
It was a straightforward interview without any questions designed to trip me up. Despite that, I didn't quite execute as well as I should have due to a bad case of nerves. At the end I asked the interviewer about his experiences with his first year project and international field study. You have to really know your Why MBA and Why Tuck stories to do well in the interview. And practice!! This was my first interview and I didn't do any mock interviews before, so that really hurt. For those interested, here's a more in depth analysis of where I screwed up.

myice

Tuck Interview

Tuck interview was pretty straight forward, as mentioned on this site The questions included:

Walk me through your resume
What are your goals (long term and short term)
Why MBA, why now and why Tuck
Tell me about a time when you took lead in a team setting (the interviewer
mentioned that being a team player was very important at Tuck)

What do you do outside of work.
Any questions for me
I asked him how did they manage to get good professors given the remote location and the absence of a PhD program and I asked him what percent of spouses/ partners lived in Boston and how does that work for them.

One of undergrad friends is at Tuck and he answered most of my other concerns.

One interesting thing at Tuck was that the interviewer was from my city and had spent 7 years in the Venture Capital industry - makes me wonder if this was more than just a coincidence.

myice

Student, on-campus

My Tuck interview was the first one I did - probably not the best idea since it's pretty high on my list of choices. I had been to the Dartmouth campus a few times during undergrad, so I was familiar with the environment. There were about 15 others visiting the same day as I, and I realized quickly how tight the timeliness were for completing an interview.

As everyone else does, I interviewed with a 2nd year student. I was a bit nervous, but I think that's par for the course. Some of the good things:

Similar work background to my interviewer, so I didn't have to spend a ton of time explaining what I did.
Had lots of good answers for what I would do if I had a year off from school...I said I would write a fictional novel about a guy who leaves his job to travel through South America, discovers a hidden river deep in the rain forest, and opens a white-water rafting company there. I really would.
Answered the behavioral questions well...pretty much everything I do these days at work is managing people and expectations, so I feel confident that I've got some good instincts in this area.
I asked lots of questions about the program, and felt I showed that I had done my research - avoided the basics and got to the details of specific things I'm interested in.
Some of the things I've avoided since this interview:

Asking TOO MANY questions....at the end of the interview, I said I could go on forever asking questions. We were rushed leaving the room, and it felt a bit awkward. She almost forgot to give me a card. I thought a 30 minute slot was too short...I guess the author of Blink might disagree and say first impressions are the most important.
Mentioning that I'm excited to get out of the corporate "jungle" for a couple of years. Just a bad statement altogether. Not sure if that one will bite me.
Spending too much time on my resume. I realized about halfway through that I was giving too much detail...I tried to recover, but fear I glossed over some important recent achievements too quickly, while spending more time on my first position out of undergrad.
In summary, I don't think the interview is going to set me apart in any way, but I don't think it was a disaster. Probably a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10.

myice

Student

My early morning interview was fairly short – 20 minutes – the interviewer had to be somewhere else. She was a 2nd year and seemed to have a list of generic questions that she went through. The interview was totally blind as I hadn’t even submitted my application at the time. The first was “This is your first visit to Tuck and you haven’t had a chance to sit in on a class or take a school tour. How do you know that Tuck is the right place for you?” The remaining were:

Walk me through your resume
Why an MBA? Why now?
What are your short-term and long-term goals?
How will Tuck help you to achieve them?
What do you do outside work? What do you do for fun?
A couple of unusual questions were

What will you miss the most upon moving to Hanover?
What are you most proud of?
What is the worst part about working in teams?
At the end, she clearly asked me if I wanted to cover anything else that she hadn’t already asked, and I took the opportunity to highlight a couple of things that hadn’t already been covered. Given the length of your interview, your answers have to be very crisp.

There were only 2-3 minutes to ask questions at the end because she had to run off somewhere else. She actually said that living in the dorms could leave you with little privacy – I hadn’t expected her to say anything negative about the Tuck experience.

myice

16 Dec 2005 / Phone Interview with 2nd year student / Dec 6th round / International candidate / Dinged (Report filed on 26 Feb 2006)

It was a phone interview. The interviewer gave me the option to choose the date and time. There werent any unexpected questions. I was asked to start with a walkthrough of my resume, then the regular why MBA? and why Tuck? I probably touched everything within these three questions because I wasn't asked much else. It was very informal, conversation like. The interviewer made me comfortable.

He asked me if I had any questions and I asked him something related to the curriculum at Tuck. I think I rambled on a bit about my resume and thats probably what took the interview to 45 mins instead of the planned 30 mins. (and, in retrospect, maybe thats what killed my app too! But thats just an optimistic guess... It could have well been my essays or the need for further diversity on the campus.)