I am too, because I haven't seen any yet. In other words, this is the first year we've taken anything other than through the formalized application process. We have on our board pedagogues who are experts at this sort of thing, and they've told us that we're discouraging many bright students. It is an academic challenge, a scholarship-type of thing. They pointed out that there are many clever students, but they're clever in different ways, so why are we requiring them to do another essay and so forth?
Our object, by the way.... And I'm not interested in sending 1,000 kids over to France, as we could never afford that. We leave that to EF, and others like them. But our object is to try to get 1,000 kids or 10,000 kids to apply for the scholarship, because in doing so, they learn something about what we want them to do. In effect, we've gained what we want by the student having applied.
The idea of changing the application process is just to solicit applications from students who would otherwise never make the effort to do so, because it's laborious. It's learning.