MBA Quant Experience

In a major re-design prompted by Tuck's revised core curriculum and my experience with prerequisite mbamath.com lessons for the Cornell 3-day course, all incoming Tuck students completed eight online mbamath.com lessons.  Learning this material before coming to campus freed up considerable space for new, more advanced material in this year's 5-day quant skills course at Dartmouth's Tuck School in late August.

About 65 incoming first years participated.  Beyond the core lessons from previous years, I wove the ongoing financial crisis into several lessons, expanded the statistics coverage to support a redesigned stats core course, pushed into accrual accounting issues, and examined real financial statements after learning the debits and credits of basic transactions.

And we still found time mid-week to paddle canoes and kayaks on the Connecticut River.

Five second-year TAs, all of whom were math campers the previous year, eased the new students into Tuck.