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Columbia MFE Columbia MFE 2018 Applications

I got an invite, and I am from South America.

Has anyone done the interview already? Do you know or think is it the same as the previous year? Is it possible to re-record?
 
Is it technical? Do we need paper and pen to calculate?

Also, how long is it? I plan to do it tomorrow but won't postpone if it's too long.
 
It's not technical at all. I found it more like behavioral in nature. Each question has a 2 minute response time limit (you can re-record the response several time and prior responses will be discarded), with a total of 5 questions.
 
It's possible to re-record as many times as you want before submitting the final version.
Are you sure we could re-record as many times as we want? I heard that the question does change when one tries to re-record and we could re-record just once (not sure of the last part)

PS: Received an invite. From India.
 
It's not technical at all. I found it more like behavioral in nature. Each question has a 2 minute response time limit (you can re-record the response several time and prior responses will be discarded), with a total of 5 questions.
Thanks a lot for your response! And good luck everyone with your interviews!
 
I re-recorded several times before allowing the system to upload my latest response.
Also, you can't move to next question before uploading response to current question.
 
I got an invite, and I am from South America.

Has anyone done the interview already? Do you know or think is it the same as the previous year? Is it possible to re-record?
Mate, I am just kidding about India, ethnicity etc. Nothing better to write lol. I am sure everyone deserving has/will receive an invite. It was just light banter from me.
 
Mate, I am just kidding about India, ethnicity etc. Nothing better to write lol. I am sure everyone deserving has/will receive an invite. It was just light banter from me.
It is all good! I am sorry if my response looked a little bit defensive. I just did it for the sake of informing other people in this forum about the status of our applications. It has been very helpful for me when I read comments or posts from other applicants, so just wanted to do the same.:)
 
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I may be jumping the gun here, but does anyone know how many interview invites were sent out last year and what's the acceptance rate?
 
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