(speaking for my own understanding of the situation. I don’t handle desk rejects)
Usually, things that don’t seem that related to or motivated by improving the long-term future at all, e.g. animal shelters, global poverty stuff, criminal justice reform, and things that are even less related. AFAIK there’s no formal policy but for people reading this on the forum, I think you should think of desk rejects as mostly irrelevant to your own application chances.
(speaking for my own understanding of the situation. I don’t handle desk rejects)
Usually, things that don’t seem that related to or motivated by improving the long-term future at all, e.g. animal shelters, global poverty stuff, criminal justice reform, and things that are even less related. AFAIK there’s no formal policy but for people reading this on the forum, I think you should think of desk rejects as mostly irrelevant to your own application chances.