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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Hey prospective GSoC students! You want us, the mentors of the Tahoe-LAFS projec
 
 3. Then, join irc.freenode.net channel #Tahoe-LAFS and talk over the idea of working on that *different* project for GSoC 2013.
 
-You might end up working on one of the projects below even after going through this process. But any student who seriously digs into their own project idea, as outlined in the three steps above, will be preferred by us to a student who merely applies to do one of the projects below.
+You might end up working on one of the projects below even after going through this process. But any student who seriously digs into their own project idea, as outlined in the three steps above, will be preferred over a student who merely applies to do one of the projects below.
 
 
 # Tahoe-LAFS Suggested Summer-of-Code Projects