[POI on leave participating in the admission committee?]

Many thanks to all of your answers! I saw your replies too late.. I reached out to one of them successfully. Thank you so much!

[POI on leave participating in the admission committee?]

1 hour ago, Number34 said:

If they are on leave its for a reason, looking through PhD application is probably not what they are going to spend their free time on. Plus they most likely would not be able to supervise your training since they are on leave. So unless you are flexible with your research topics, I would look at other schools.

Thanks for the comment.

Is it still unlikely that they will supervise me even when I'm applying for the 2021 cohort? it says they will return after fall 2021 as they're on leave for this academic year. 

Also, I was wondering if there's any chance that adcomm's decisions might be affected by those of faculties on leave... I'm so confused

[POI on leave participating in the admission committee?]

Hi, I am a ph.D. applicant for this fall.

I just found out that two of POIs are on leave for this academic year (fall 2020-fall 2021), so I was wondering if this would hurt my application... Is there any chance professors on leave do participate in the admission committee?