I really like that idea. Perhaps if enough people comment on this in the survey, perhaps they could work in something like that. Especially given that so many sites are asking Phase II applicants that question. I'm not going to lie, it comes off as a bit aggressive to an already-way-too-stressed-out doctoral student. For me, it was definitely a turn off for them to ask me that, so they are much lower on my rank list because of it. (Not to mention that they introduced the phone call as a quick screener but then went on to ask full-on interview style questions about my supervision preferences and rotations I am interested in, etc.) But I also understand that there could be a perfectly benign reason they are asking.