smileeLv

Hey, I am trying to register for CMUNCE (Columbia Model UN Conference and Exposition) this year and I have some questions about it.....This is our school's first time to attend a Model UN conference so I'm very confused. Any help would be appreciated !
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The CMUNCE website says:
"CMUNCE prides itself on its small committee sizes. As such, we generally limited school delegations to 12 students or less. Schools are allowed to request more than 12 positions, but we cannot guarantee that they will be available."
But it also says:
"CMUNCE does not allow double delegations. Each country, cabinet member, or other personality of a committee will only be represented by one student."
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Does this mean that only one person would be going into one room and each school will be involved in 12 different committees?

Another thing that's confusing me is that when I was trying to register for it, they wanted us to choose 5 choices for committees that we'd like to be in but didn't ask about the countries.... so... does this mean that they would be choosing countries at random for us?
Also, if there are 12 people going to the conference from one school, does that mean all of them would be representing one country and going into different committees? Doesn't this not make sense though, if they let us choose 5 choices for the committees?

Anyone who's familiar with this, please help!!! I'm desperate !!! (The registration is due on Friday this week)

Thanks!!

confidentialcoll

yes.

they will decide positions.

Not necessarily, many committees have no countries/positions which overlap. Just get your school to choose the top 5 committees that they would like positions in.

smileeLv

Thank you so much

smileeLv

so.. I'm guessing.... from one of the 5 choices that we say we want to be in, they are gonna choose one of the committees and is there smaller committees within each committee that we chose?

smileeLv

Do we pay for this when we get to the conference? Does anyone know?

everynameistaken

You will pay well ahead of time, they will probably send your advisor a list of fees in an invoice, remember if you're staying at a hotel you're going to need to book that too.

I run my Model UN club (we're going to four conferences, not that one though) and I have a friend who will be working CMUNCE so let me know if you have questions

themerlion

I have personally gone to Harvard Model UN (and won the best delegate and overall best delegation award so i know what im talking abt) and am organizing a team from my high school going to princeton MUN. after looking through CMUNCE's concept and committees, i personally find columbia's to be the more interesting one. something i feel everyone would be interested in actually participating it's a random thought but really the committees are very well thought of. kudos to the sec.gen and team.