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[amyamy]

I am a graduate student vying for a (work) fellowship, and will be attending an interview this week. I was told that there are about 12 such fellowships.

Stupid it seems, I am trying to gauge my success rate. Is it true that the success rate (based on pure probability) should be higher when there are more places? Say, people tend to interview 10 candidates for 3 positions, but they tend not to interview 36 candidates for 12 positions.

I worked for a while, but never served on a faculty/ fellowship board before. Yes, the interviewers will be chiefly faculty members and not a recruitment board/ committee whatever you call it. Do they tend to slack? (I wish ...)

[the_honey_badger]

slack?  What do you mean?

and, didn't you ask this on another thread?

[anthroid]

Yep.

Uncool, OP.  Ask once.

If you're having trouble, you may want to think about your interactional style.  You are not gaining points here.

[fugitive_prof]

I know how difficult waiting to hear can be. But you should know that this anxity often results in an obsessional form of mathematics, strategizing that only makes the waiting worse and rarely leading to any career-building insights.

That's the tough love. Let it go. Just let it go. The enabler in me, however, agree with your general impression-- though I have no idea what slack is.