For about half of the rest, they’d had a single conversation with me (& I think usually not with anyone else on the committee).
I think we had 3-5 conversations prior to the RSP interview, the first one in 2017. Though I think “single conversation” still gives basically the correct impression as all conversations we’ve had could conceivably fit into one very long conversation. (And we spoke very irregularly, didn’t know each other well, etc.)
I also had had a few very brief online conversations with another member of the selection committee, and I had applied to an organization run by them (with partially but not completely overlapping material).
(I was counting you in the other “half of the rest”, i.e. people I’d had more contact with than a single conversation, so probably wouldn’t be regarded as “chosen from cold applications”.)
I think we had 3-5 conversations prior to the RSP interview, the first one in 2017. Though I think “single conversation” still gives basically the correct impression as all conversations we’ve had could conceivably fit into one very long conversation. (And we spoke very irregularly, didn’t know each other well, etc.)
I also had had a few very brief online conversations with another member of the selection committee, and I had applied to an organization run by them (with partially but not completely overlapping material).
(I was counting you in the other “half of the rest”, i.e. people I’d had more contact with than a single conversation, so probably wouldn’t be regarded as “chosen from cold applications”.)
Ah, makes sense. Sorry, I think I just misread “half of the rest” as something like “the other half”.