Thanks! We took an approach of making the fellowship application form as minimal as we could, so most of our applicants were able to put fairly high-quality responses to the remaining questions. We also have experienced a somewhat higher attrition rate for the actual fellowship (4->2 last semester, 50->15 this semester), which we suspect is due to the shorter forms, but we haven’t seen any other new problems.
Thanks! We took an approach of making the fellowship application form as minimal as we could, so most of our applicants were able to put fairly high-quality responses to the remaining questions. We also have experienced a somewhat higher attrition rate for the actual fellowship (4->2 last semester, 50->15 this semester), which we suspect is due to the shorter forms, but we haven’t seen any other new problems.