“EA Global Admissions bar” by frances_lorenz, OllieBase, Amy Labenz, RobertHarling

TL;DR In 2024, 84% of applicants were accepted to EA Global. We evaluate applications by considering several factors. Our two primary considerations are an applicant's EA context and their potential to advance professionally in ways that contribute to EA-related goals or support others in doing so. If you’d like to better understand our admissions bar, you can skip ahead to An overview of the admissions bar. Currently, we suspect that many people who reach the admissions bar are not applying. We want to encourage you to apply! Events are expensive and this prevents some people from applying. We don’t think it should—if you’ve been accepted, we think your attendance is a good use of our funding.  Introduction  The two goals of this post are: Provide greater transparency on the current admissions bar for EA Global (EAG) Encourage more people to apply to EAG We aim [...] ---Outline:(00:06) TL;DR(00:57) Introduction(02:10) What is EA Global?(02:44) Acceptance rate(03:55) You should apply to EA Global(03:59) We suspect there are many people who clearly meet the admissions bar who are not applying(05:11) Events are expensive; we don’t want this to deter applications(06:20) Why have an admissions process?(08:46) An overview of the admissions bar(15:04) Common questions(16:30) Recommendations for writing a strong application(18:03) Apply nowThe original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: December 3rd, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/S6GMTQf2ryKbykpiW/ea-global-admissions-bar --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.