EA fellowships and summer programmes should have (possibly more competitive) “early entry” cohorts with deadlines in September/October, where if you apply by then you get a guaranteed place, funding, and maybe some extra perk to encourage it, could literally be a slack with the other participants.
Consulting, finance etc have really early processes which people feel pressure to accept in case they don’t get anything else, and then don’t want to back out of.
EA fellowships and summer programmes should have (possibly more competitive) “early entry” cohorts with deadlines in September/October, where if you apply by then you get a guaranteed place, funding, and maybe some extra perk to encourage it, could literally be a slack with the other participants.
Consulting, finance etc have really early processes which people feel pressure to accept in case they don’t get anything else, and then don’t want to back out of.