I’m surprised at the $500 reward for nominating a student who is accepted into the program. It might encourage people to give a glowing reference to someone who really isn’t that good.
If you aren’t receiving as many applications as you’d like, I’d suggest that this might be because it’s the first time that you’re running this program. I expect word of mouth would quickly mean that future rounds would receive many more applications.
I appreciate the suggestion! But I think you’ve slightly misunderstood our nomination process. As hath surmised, nominations are an easy way for people to share the program with students they think might be a good fit, not a part of our admissions decisions. We don’t ask students for a nomination on the application. Apologies for not making that more clear!
As far as I know, the purpose of the nomination is “provide an incentive for you to share the Atlas Fellowship with those you think might be interested” not “help make our admissions decisions”. I agree that, if the nomination form was weighted heavily in the admissions decisions, we would be incentivized to speak highly of those who don’t deserve it to get 500$.
I’m surprised at the $500 reward for nominating a student who is accepted into the program. It might encourage people to give a glowing reference to someone who really isn’t that good.
If you aren’t receiving as many applications as you’d like, I’d suggest that this might be because it’s the first time that you’re running this program. I expect word of mouth would quickly mean that future rounds would receive many more applications.
I appreciate the suggestion! But I think you’ve slightly misunderstood our nomination process. As hath surmised, nominations are an easy way for people to share the program with students they think might be a good fit, not a part of our admissions decisions. We don’t ask students for a nomination on the application. Apologies for not making that more clear!
Update: edited the post to make it more clear what we mean by “nomination.”
As far as I know, the purpose of the nomination is “provide an incentive for you to share the Atlas Fellowship with those you think might be interested” not “help make our admissions decisions”. I agree that, if the nomination form was weighted heavily in the admissions decisions, we would be incentivized to speak highly of those who don’t deserve it to get 500$.