But then of course there is the question of what’s keeping EAG organizers from making them twice the size. They will have a better insight here!
I suspect/my understanding is, it’s just a slow feedback loop. You have to book a venue before you know how many people will apply, and if that venue has a capacity (i.e. there literally wouldn’t be enough space, or health and safety issues) you can’t accept more than that.
With that said, I would be very surprised if EAG-SF (Which IIRC had around 1700 accepted, with 200 no shows) rejected more than 30% of US based applicants. And those rejections would likely no be capacity related, by more due to not hitting the bar of acceptance. So the limiting factor could be demand
I suspect/my understanding is, it’s just a slow feedback loop. You have to book a venue before you know how many people will apply, and if that venue has a capacity (i.e. there literally wouldn’t be enough space, or health and safety issues) you can’t accept more than that.
With that said, I would be very surprised if EAG-SF (Which IIRC had around 1700 accepted, with 200 no shows) rejected more than 30% of US based applicants. And those rejections would likely no be capacity related, by more due to not hitting the bar of acceptance. So the limiting factor could be demand