afaik it’s incorrect to model these programs as having a single ‘bar’. Mentors pick their scholars. MATS has done some pruning of applicants based on a mentor’s specifications in the past, to save mentor time, but (unless something has changed in the last 18 months) doesn’t enforce a universal standard (and doing so would be operationally costly, since different mentors are looking for different things—often dramatically different).
I don’t know how Anthropic fellows works in this regard, but they have less natural cause to take interest in this kind of thing (since they’re explicitly trying to be Anthropic’s hiring pipeline). Hiring is about ruling people out, not in.
afaik it’s incorrect to model these programs as having a single ‘bar’. Mentors pick their scholars. MATS has done some pruning of applicants based on a mentor’s specifications in the past, to save mentor time, but (unless something has changed in the last 18 months) doesn’t enforce a universal standard (and doing so would be operationally costly, since different mentors are looking for different things—often dramatically different).
I don’t know how Anthropic fellows works in this regard, but they have less natural cause to take interest in this kind of thing (since they’re explicitly trying to be Anthropic’s hiring pipeline). Hiring is about ruling people out, not in.