Remember when you were a kid and were the last one picked for basketball? I do. You know how that made me feel? It made be feel like "other". That feeling sucks, and it turned me into the monster I am today.
IMHO this should be 100% open field. I don't understand why having this data is important. We might have turned away hundreds of people.
If I were applying to MIT hackathon and they listed 10 MIT schools and there's an "other" field, I would close that tab. That's the quickest way to say "This is not for me" despite the fact that we have that disclaimer at the top.
Remember when you were a kid and were the last one picked for basketball? I do. You know how that made me feel? It made be feel like "other". That feeling sucks, and it turned me into the monster I am today.
IMHO this should be 100% open field. I don't understand why having this data is important. We might have turned away hundreds of people.
If I were applying to MIT hackathon and they listed 10 MIT schools and there's an "other" field, I would close that tab. That's the quickest way to say "This is not for me" despite the fact that we have that disclaimer at the top.