We agree with your assessment. We were also aware of the timelines for law students (especially in the US), but decided to take our chances. This was our reasoning:
The funder behind this project agreed to provide funding only if we found suitable applicants (given the late announcement). So in the scenario where we don’t find any applicants after all, we will only have lost some time announcing and advertising the opportunity. We thought it was worth a try.
The fellowship is also open to applicants who are not US law school students, which significantly increases our applicant pool.
If the fellowship goes well despite the late announcemment, it will be much easier for us to secure early funding for future fellowships. Having received 864 applications for this fellowship (of which 122 from the US), we’re optimistic that this will be the case!
Multiple factors affected the timing of the announcement, some of which were outside of our control, but we hope to have more predictable schedules as our capacity (staff and funding) increases.
Thanks a lot for your comment, liilly!
We agree with your assessment. We were also aware of the timelines for law students (especially in the US), but decided to take our chances. This was our reasoning:
The funder behind this project agreed to provide funding only if we found suitable applicants (given the late announcement). So in the scenario where we don’t find any applicants after all, we will only have lost some time announcing and advertising the opportunity. We thought it was worth a try.
The fellowship is also open to applicants who are not US law school students, which significantly increases our applicant pool.
If the fellowship goes well despite the late announcemment, it will be much easier for us to secure early funding for future fellowships. Having received 864 applications for this fellowship (of which 122 from the US), we’re optimistic that this will be the case!
Multiple factors affected the timing of the announcement, some of which were outside of our control, but we hope to have more predictable schedules as our capacity (staff and funding) increases.
Thanks again!