Obsidian wrote:Have you decided to do only yearly intakes now, rather than the quarter (or biannually) of days gone by?
We haven't decided to do yearly, it just ended up that way because we took two waves in a row very close to each other (ie. within a few months of each other).
I suspect the same thing will happen this time. Meaning, whomever is picked for this wave will likely have other brethern picked a few months afterward. We haven't decided yet (since the interviews themselves haven't started) if the second round of newbies is "too close" to the first that if we are going to do a second round of interviews, considering the amount of applicants.
Because of the sheer amount of applicants (Yes, 31 is the new record), based on their application, some won't be interviewed because it would take forever to do so (we'd still be interviewing 3-6 months from now!). They will be informed that is the case however. Nothing has been sent out yet that I'm aware of.
Bob_stew wrote:By 'commented on', do you mean that we should have received an email reply? If so, I haven't gotten one yet.
No emails have been sent out. "Commented on" means that the individual applications are put in their own threads in a forum, everyone reads them and comments on them and adds as much as possible for everyone else's benifit (for example if they know them outside of the application, and if so, what insight they might have, or even based on how the application reads how well they will fit into the group, etc. The list goes on.)