Blog: Archive for the “Dartmouth College (Tuck)” Category

Hysteria sells. Last week, an admissions consulting firm gained a fair amount of press for its piece on “weird interview questions that the admissions officers will use to trip you up.” The questions that they showcased were indeed incomprehensibly absurd, including this one: “If you could go back in time and steal Hitler’s wallet without … Read More  

The bad news is that interview slots on MBA campuses are down by 20%. The good news is that career services office are, according to the Wall Street Journal, getting creative in order to ensure that their students are meeting with recruiters – via videoconferencing (UVA-Darden, Cornell-Johnson, Chicago-Booth) and  road trips to interview forums in … Read More  

mbaMission writes a monthly feature for our friends at Beat the GMAT. The following piece was penned for BTG by mbaMission Founder, Jeremy Shinewald:     It has been years since you were in college, and as you contemplate pursuing your MBA, you suddenly remember a few not-so-stellar semesters when your social life was far more important to you than your grade … Read More  

We always advise candidates to take rankings not with a grain of salt, but with a pound of it. Today, the Financial Times released its annual ranking of top global MBA programs and London Business School came out on top, with Wharton, HBS, Stanford, INSEAD and many others following, of course. So, why should one … Read More  

Update: Dawna Clarke is no longer the Director of Admissions at Dartmouth Tuck. After briefly serving as mbaMission’s Chief MBA Strategist, Clarke back at the admissions helm for the University of Virginia’s Darden School after almost a decade and a half since her previous tenure there. We were quite fortunate to have some time to speak with … Read More