Hi Arindam,
On Sat, 2015-03-21 at 00:50 +0530, Arindam Padhy wrote:
How can project ideas being assigned to a student
before all students have
submitted their proposal. i too wanted to put my proposal but my mentor
says he has already selected one student for this project. this is not fair.
In general, organizations have a limited number of slots and usually get
more applications than slots.
If there are great candidates who have expressed interest in a task and
have already gotten involved (e.g. by providing an initial contribution)
it might happen that a mentor already has one or more strong preferences
(I don't know the exact wording of the conversation that you had).
So from a different angle, it might be even fair to tell someone that
their chances are low. Depends on what people consider "fair". :)
Are there any further tasks that interest you?
In any case, I hope that you will find a great task and mentor!
andre
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