The original language of During the review phase, organizations maintain an open dialogue with their student applicants, asking them to refine their proposals has been cited by some student applicants to our projects in asking about making changes to their proposals during the review period based on mentor feedback.
This rewording tries to make it clear that organizations can ask questions about the proposals during this time for purposes of making a decision and ensuring they understand the student's proposal, but that proposals cannot be altered after the submission deadline.
rspier
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During the review phase, organizations maintain an open dialogue with their student applicants, asking them to refine their proposalshas been cited by some student applicants to our projects in asking about making changes to their proposals during the review period based on mentor feedback.This rewording tries to make it clear that organizations can ask questions about the proposals during this time for purposes of making a decision and ensuring they understand the student's proposal, but that proposals cannot be altered after the submission deadline.
For a bit of background, this discussion on the mentors list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list/mq0MXHvd7gI