Hanover, NH: As prospective students enjoyed their first full day of Admitted Students’ Weekend, anxious second years prepared for their last, best chance to flip their houses. Many second years, however, were angered by Tuck’s efforts to stymie the process.

On-Campus Competition
In an effort to improve Tuck’s position in business school rankings, Admissions has seized on a negative correlation between age and GMAT score. As a result, most ASW attendees arrived toting parental permission slips and 750 GMATs. With a younger class of mostly single students, there are fewer potential homebuyers.

Some second years also cited a knock-on effect from improved on-campus housing, which compounds the demographic shift in the admitted class. “Refinishing the Buchanan floor is the last straw,” said an enraged Adam Marcus, T’07. “The Administration’s concerted efforts to make Buchanan habitable are killing demand for off-campus housing. Now that the bathrooms have been swapped and the floor redone, people with strong immune systems will be able to live in Buchanan.”

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