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Tuck School of Business
at Dartmouth
| APPLICATION DEADLINES | | | | | | | September 2011 Intake | | | | | Early Action | 13 October 2010 | | R2 | 10 November 2010 | | R3 | 3 January 2011 | | R4 | 1 April 2011 |
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Tuck Essays
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.)
2. Discuss your most meaningful leadership experience. What did you learn about your own
individual strengths and weaknesses through this experience?
3. What is the greatest challenge or hurdle you have overcome, either personally or professionally, and how did you manage to do so?
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?
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.
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Writing Tips and Suggestions:
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?
EssayLever Suggestions:
Logically connect your past experience with the short-term goals and the short-term goals with long-term goals. Show how your professional strengths, abilities and interests are ideally suited for the career you have chosen. Identify the skills and experiences you need to build up in order to achieve the goals and show how specific parts of the program will help you acquire them.
2. Discuss your most meaningful leadership experience. What did you learn about your own
individual strengths and weaknesses through this experience?
EssayLever Suggestions
Identify a leadership experience through which you created an impact on your organization or community. Describe the situation, the challenges you faced, the solutions you developed and executed and the results you achieved. What leadership traits enabled you to create the desired result? What leadership traits would you have liked to demonstrate in order to make a larger impact than what you were able to make.
3. What is the greatest challenge or hurdle you have overcome, either personally or professionally, and how did you manage to do so?
EssayLever Suggestions
You are looking to identify a difficult situation that you navigated successfully. Talk about specific challenges you faced and how you overcame them.
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?
EssayLever Suggestions:
What is unique about your background, the values by which you lead your life and the activities you are driven to contribute to? How do these unique aspects influence what you do and achieve? How will others gain from interacting with you? What perspectives have you developed and what experiences have you gained that will make you a useful resource for other students?
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