EssaySnark's Strategies for the 2011-'12 MBA Admissions Essays for Tuck School of Business

By Essay Snark

Tuck is unique among the bschool uniques. Tuck is very small, very intimate; and very beautiful.

It's also a darn good MBA education. Tuck is a place where lasting relationships are formed. It's a place where you can get to know your professors – and no, that does not always happen at the big-city bschools. Tuck is a place where you have nothing else to do but what you came to bschool for: to learn. (And maybe to snowboard.)

If Dartmouth is the right bschool for you, then you need to work hard to prove that to the Tuck adcom. This SnarkStrategies Guide shows you how.

You'll also get answers to the perennial question of “Is my GMAT score good enough?” and you'll find out what you can do to boost your chances for acceptance at this very special school.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Essay Snark
• Release date: Oct 19, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466158269

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EssaySnark's Strategies for the 2011-'12 MBA Admissions Essays for

Tuck School of Business

A SnarkStrategies Guide

by EssaySnark

Snarkolicious Press

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version 1.0

October 18, 2011

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Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Tuck Everlasting

Table of Contents

We Love Tuck

What you must do to have a chance at Tuck

How Much Snow?

Whom Is Tuck Looking for – and Who Should Consider Tuck?

What does Tuck need to see in your profile?

Do I Really Have to Visit?

Your GMAT Score and Tuck

Tuck's Application Rounds and Policies

What is Early Action?

When should you apply?

7 steps to a Tuck application

Multi-school strategies

Planning Your Tuck Essays

What's the right balance of topics?

Essay 1: Career Goals

Essay 2: Leadership

Essay 3: A Bad Thing that Happened

Essay 4: Life Experience, Diversity, and You

Optional Essay

The Tuck Interview

What to Do Next

We Love Tuck

EssaySnark is enamored of Tuck. If we could go get our MBA over again, we'd want to go to Dartmouth. Tuck is one of our absolute favoritist schools. This SnarkStrategies Guide explains why.

If you don't want to read the whole thing to find out, the essence of it is, Tuck is a) very small; b) very intimate; and c) very beautiful. It's also a darn good education. Tuck is a place where lasting relationships are formed. It's a place where you can get to know your professors – and no, that absolutely does not happen at many of the big schools in the big cities. Tuck is a place where you have nothing else to do but what you came to bschool for: to learn.

Mother Nature is the biggest distraction at Tuck – and while she can be a mighty temptress, luring you out into the mountains with snowshoes or snowboard or a pair of hiking boots in fall or late spring, she also does her part to make you huddle together with your sectionmates and your case studies by dumping so much snow that it shuts the place down on a regular basis. (How much snow? We'll tell you on page 1.)

What you must do to have a chance at Tuck

Now, applying to any top MBA program is a big undertaking. You have to put in your time, and the essays are a bear. This is true everywhere. It's perhaps more true at Tuck. Before we get too far with this SnarkStrategies Guide, we need to advise you that you must make a bigger commitment to the application process at Tuck than at almost any other school.

In fact, this is so important we're going to throw out a set-in-stone rule for you to ponder, right here on the first page:

If you're serious about Tuck,

you must visit the school before you apply.

Tuck actually tells you this. They want you to come visit. They invite you – all of you – to interview on campus. They want you to know what their school, and Hanover, is like.

We go into all the details of why and how later, but we wanted to lay it