PS The essay questions provide you with an opportunity to help the admissions committee gain greater insight about you as a potential member of the Tuck community. We do not allow substitution or replacement of essay responses after an application has been submitted. Please be clear, succinct, forthright, and thoughtful in your responses. Additionally, we ask that you share what you truly feel, as opposed to writing what you think the admissions committee would like to read. There are no right or wrong answers. Reapplicants should also complete the reapplicant essay. Tuck expects that the work contained in the essays is completely accurate and exclusively your own. Use of professional essay-writing services violates Tuck’s admissions policies Fee Tuck requires each applicant to submit a nonrefundable application fee. The online application fee is $250 and is payable by Visa or MasterCard. The application fee is waived for participants of the on-campus Tuck Business Bridge Program and for U.S. military personnel past and present. Please contact us if you have any questions about payment. RL The LOR forms should be given to two people capable of commenting on your professional, leadership, and intellectual capabilities. We have found that the most useful evaluations are those from people who are able to speak with certainty about your leadership, maturity, team orientation, communication skills, intellectual ability, and interpersonal skills. If you are currently employed, we prefer that you submit LORs from people who know you well and are in a position to judge your professional performance and leadership, such as your direct supervisor. If you are unable to provide an LOR from a direct supervisor, please include a brief explanation as to why in the optional essay section. Generally, we do not find LORs from professors to be helpful in our evaluations. Getting independent perspective about your qualifications from a third party is very valuable to the Admissions Committee, therefore the LORs are to be completed by the recommender and no one else. Drafting, writing, or translating your own recommendation, even if asked to do so by your recommender, is a violation of the terms of our application process and Tuck’s Academic Honor Principle and could result in rescission of our offer of admission or termination of a student’s enrollment. Applicants are expected to inform recommenders of this policy. If your recommender is not able to complete the LOR in English, he or she should write it in their native language and have it translated by an outside translation service. You should not translate the recommendation into English for your recommender. Please contact your evaluators well in advance to give them sufficient time to write and return their evaluations by the application-round deadline for which you are applying. Given the importance we place on LORs, we do not review any applications until we have received LORs from both of the evaluators you listed in your application. If your LORs are received after the deadline for submission, your application will not be considered until the next round. It is your responsibility to make sure that your evaluators are aware of the deadlines and to ensure that both LORs have been submitted. If you would like to make any changes to your list of evaluators, please contact Tuck admissions at tuck.admissions@dartmouth.edu. Transcript You will be required to scan and upload a copy of the academic transcript (not diplomas) issued by the institution(s) from which you obtained your undergraduate (bachelor’s or first) degree and any advanced/graduate degrees. If your transcript is not in English, you must scan and upload a copy of it that has been translated into English. Transcripts and translated transcripts should include the following kinds of information: course names, course numbers, dates, grades (including incompletes, failed courses, and withdrawals), and grade modes (pass/fail). If you attended institutions other than those from which your degrees were granted, you will be required to scan and upload your academic transcripts from these institutions (transfer coursework, domestic or study-abroad programs, post-graduate non-degree coursework, etc.). If you have more than three undergraduate transcripts or three graduate transcripts to upload, please combine them by uploading a file that contains more than one transcript. When scanning and uploading your academic transcripts, please keep in mind the following: Remember to scan both sides of your transcript (provided that the second side is not blank). Various scanners and image software work differently. One option is to insert individual images (.jpg) into a word processing document so that all of the individual pages comprise one document for upload. If your scanning software produces a .pdf file, you may simply upload that file. Do not scan and upload a copy of your diploma. Do not upload a password-protected file or a file that has macros in it. This will cause the upload process to fail. The size of each file you upload must not exceed 1 megabyte. View each uploaded document to make sure it is legible. You may do this as soon as your upload is complete and when you review your entire application prior to submission. If admitted to Tuck, you will need to provide us with official transcripts for all undergraduate and graduate courses taken, as well as any transfer courses, study-abroad programs, or post-college non-degree courses, within 30 days from when you submit your enrollment deposit. This requirement also applies to applicants who received their undergraduate or graduate degrees from Dartmouth College. Tuck reserves the right to rescind an offer of admission or terminate a student’s enrollment should any misrepresentation or omission occur. If your official transcript is not in English, you must make arrangements to have all academic records translated and sent to Tuck with the originals. If your institution has a policy of issuing only one official transcript, you may submit a copy validated by your school, a foreign affairs ministry, the Fulbright Commission, or a U.S. consular official.