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Based on what adcom told me during my class visit, some applicants will get interview invites starting today....most likely folks with very strong "data points"....3.8+/750+. Good Luck all.

Also, P&Q had an interview with Bruce this month. It's amazing how transparent he is about the whole process - loved his interview. Bruce is simply awesome...
https://poetsandquants.com/2013/09/05/th ... anagement/
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Interview running for 6 pages but provides great insight.
Having met him last year for my interview, I can relate a lot to where is coming from. Hoping the results are a little different for me this year.
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Based on what adcom told me during my class visit, some applicants will get interview invites starting today....most likely folks with very strong "data points"....3.8+/750+. Good Luck all.

Also, P&Q had an interview with Bruce this month. It's amazing how transparent he is about the whole process - loved his interview. Bruce is simply awesome...
https://poetsandquants.com/2013/09/05/th ... anagement/
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Interview running for 6 pages but provides great insight.
Having met him last year for my interview, I can relate a lot to where is coming from. Hoping the results are a little different for me this year.
Good luck to all! :)


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Based on what adcom told me during my class visit, some applicants will get interview invites starting today....most likely folks with very strong "data points"....3.8+/750+. Good Luck all.

Also, P&Q had an interview with Bruce this month. It's amazing how transparent he is about the whole process - loved his interview. Bruce is simply awesome...
https://poetsandquants.com/2013/09/05/th ... anagement/
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Nice. He is a very genuine guy. Were you also wait-listed last year?
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I also just completed the video questions, and it sucked. I am not a camera person at all. It just feels so artificial and fake (which is ironic, since Yale says that this is their way to try to get an authentic feel of their applicants). Here's a summary of the experience:

2 generic practice questions that no one sees and that you can review afterward
3 real questions that are delivered by videos of an adcom member asking it
20 seconds to think, 90 seconds to respond
I had two interview-y questions and 1 thought question, which I expected from what people shared about the video questions in last year's round 3

My "how to not look terrible" tips:

-Put a smiley face sticker or something right above your webcam so you remember to look at the camera and not the screen
-Spend a lot of time beforehand creating a good backdrop/setup with good lighting and seating where you'll sit straight
-Put on lots of makeup (blush) so you don't look washed out
-Elevate your computer with books or something so it's eye level when you sit up straight. That way you won't lose your posture or get the double chin.
-Stop blinking. I noticed that I blinked way too much when recording myself, and I think it's from lack of direct eye contact with another person.

Is it just me, or do webcams make every flyaway on your head stand out like antennae?? I tried to paste them down but was unsuccessful. You can let me know if you have other tips for this one.

I am so not looking forward to doing this again for Kellogg. Ugh.

Thank you for your tips. Very helpful.
What questions were asked in last year r3, can u put a link here?

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Sorry, this website isn't letting me post URLs yet. If you just Google "Yale video interview questions" you can see some questions people shared about their round 3 experiences last year on the clearadmit website.
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Rejected after interview :(
That hurt last time, but am back with high hopes and (hopefully) a much better application!



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Interview running for 6 pages but provides great insight.
Having met him last year for my interview, I can relate a lot to where is coming from. Hoping the results are a little different for me this year.
Good luck to all! :)


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Based on what adcom told me during my class visit, some applicants will get interview invites starting today....most likely folks with very strong "data points"....3.8+/750+. Good Luck all.

Also, P&Q had an interview with Bruce this month. It's amazing how transparent he is about the whole process - loved his interview. Bruce is simply awesome...
https://poetsandquants.com/2013/09/05/th ... anagement/

Nice. He is a very genuine guy. Were you also wait-listed last year?
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Just completed the video interviews. To echo others, it is a little awkward talking to a computer in a room by yourself. I kept convincing myself that I was rambling and to slow down. Overall, pretty straight forward. Definitely makes you realize how important something as simple as a person nodding their head and making eye contact with you is to keeping your thoughts organized.

Now we play the waiting game...
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I bought a new webcam with 1080p resolution. The mic picks up the nuances of my voice.

With 90 seconds to respond, you still get a superficial impression of the candidate.
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Quick question on pacing yourself. Are you guys completing your answer easily much within 90 seconds? Few seconds of dead airtime?


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Just completed the video interviews. To echo others, it is a little awkward talking to a computer in a room by yourself. I kept convincing myself that I was rambling and to slow down. Overall, pretty straight forward. Definitely makes you realize how important something as simple as a person nodding their head and making eye contact with you is to keeping your thoughts organized.

Now we play the waiting game...
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Quick question on pacing yourself. Are you guys completing your answer easily much within 90 seconds? Few seconds of dead airtime?
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Just finished my video interview too. I didn't use up the 90 seconds for any of the questions because I didn't want to start on a thread & end up running out of time. So I kept my answers fairly brief and stopped the recording manually right after so there's no awkward seconds of staring-at-the-webcam.

Good luck to everyone!
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The email we got from Kira Talent says that the video expires on October 4th. Does that mean it expires ends the day of October 4th or midnight October 3rd? Not sure if any one has contacted them? I am currently on the road and want to do the interview when I reach home on Thursday night. (better camera, mic and lighting....and obviously the background view :).
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The email we got from Kira Talent says that the video expires on October 4th. Does that mean it expires ends the day of October 4th or midnight October 3rd? Not sure if any one has contacted them? I am currently on the road and want to do the interview when I reach home on Thursday night. (better camera, mic and lighting....and obviously the background view :).
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From the email I received from them...."Submit your interview before 11:59 PM EST on October 4, 2013"
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The email we got from Kira Talent says that the video expires on October 4th. Does that mean it expires ends the day of October 4th or midnight October 3rd? Not sure if any one has contacted them? I am currently on the road and want to do the interview when I reach home on Thursday night. (better camera, mic and lighting....and obviously the background view :).

From the email I received from them...."Submit your interview before 11:59 PM EST on October 4, 2013"
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hmm just checked again. It's 12:00AM EST on October 4th, so essentially we have until the end of the day on Thursday, October 3rd to complete this part of the application process.
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Just wanted to give a bit of advice on the video questions....

I had some technical problems that ended up delaying my video my about an hour. You can log-in and test out the system at a time prior to when you want to complete the actual interview. I ended up only having one window to do both, and it was a little bit stressful trying to resolve these issues while at the same time remaining calm for the questions. I'd recommend logging in ahead of time just to make sure your webcam/audio are working properly with the system...especially if you're going to be cutting it close with the deadline.

My feedback for the questions mirrors what others have said. They cut you off at 90 seconds sharp, so make sure to tie up loose ends prior to the final three seconds. Otherwise, based on what I could see from the practice questions, it will catch you mid-word.

Good luck everyone! :)
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The email we got from Kira Talent says that the video expires on October 4th. Does that mean it expires ends the day of October 4th or midnight October 3rd? Not sure if any one has contacted them? I am currently on the road and want to do the interview when I reach home on Thursday night. (better camera, mic and lighting....and obviously the background view :).

From the email I received from them...."Submit your interview before 11:59 PM EST on October 4, 2013"

hmm just checked again. It's 12:00AM EST on October 4th, so essentially we have until the end of the day on Thursday, October 3rd to complete this part of the application process.
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I just asked the Live Help. You have until end of Friday, October 4th, 11:59 PM to answer your questions. They did encourage you to finish early during Live Support hours...
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Just did the video interview, complete disaster. Wish you all good luck.
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Same here, I am yet to hear from anyone who has done this well. Am guessing (hoping really), Yale Admissions will treat this as an experiment and give minimal weightage on the video essays.


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I always thought I was a good presenter... but if any of the Yale adcom visits this site, please take some of our feedbacks seriously... Don't roll out something that is not technologically mature...

So, I took the video interviews... the first two were choppy, but I could at least get the questions... the third one was so choppy that the cutoffs totally ruined my mood, and added up the stress level...

Talked to the support, and they claimed that I had a choppy connection... but I was quite sure my connection worked like a charm. The streaming was fast, but the video played like crap... anyways, I completed my videos, and no more complaints...

One tip to all of you, there are texts of the questions during the 20 sec waiting time in case the videos are choppy, which I totally missed it cz' I concentrated on what to talk about...
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Just finished my video interview. I actually think I did very well for 2 of the questions. Third one, I stumbled a bit and might have used a professional story which could be a bit confusing for adcom to understand. oh well, I don't think they will put too much weight on this thing, since quite a few people have video issues. Good Luck all.

ps. I applied R3 last year and did a video interview, so I have some experience.
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@hailmary, the more interesting thing for us was that the class size went from 290 on 8/14 when they posted the Yale Welcomes New Students article, to 291 in the class profile that you linked to - some lucky waitlisted dog was celebrating recently!! Wonder what went into that decision.

Probably a current Yale grad student who walked over to the SOM building and won the Adcoms' heart over.

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I can confirm that hailmary's guess is a true story. Not sure how many weeks ago it happened though! :)
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Really random question but was this person in Yale grad school last year or did this person graduate from Yale grad school years ago?

Also, anyone know the average age for the class of 2015?
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I can confirm that hailmary's guess is a true story. Not sure how many weeks ago it happened though! :)


Really random question but was this person in Yale grad school last year or did this person graduate from Yale grad school years ago?

Also, anyone know the average age for the class of 2015?
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I think that person was a Yale law student who was on wait list because of low quant score on GMAT and got in late in summer. If you read Bruce's P&Q interview, he mentions about he/she (without names or specifics).
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