bug: mentors can see mentee applications before profiles are approved by admin

[khairahscorner]

Bug Report

Applications from new mentees are appearing on mentors dashboards (and triggering the full email workflow) before the mentee profiles are approved by Mentorship Admin team.

This is not necessarily an issue because the mentor ultimately decides whether they want to mentor the person BUT this is causing situations where the mentee does not meet our baseline requirement to be in the community Slack but are accepted by mentors before we can review their profiles.

Describe the bug

To Reproduce

See Slack thread: https://womencodingcommunity.slack.com/archives/C07042K8VPG/p1783616435783809

Expected behavior

• Mentors should not be notified of new pending applications until the mentee profiles have been reviewed to meet the Slack baseline requirement.

Reproducibility

• The bug is reproducible consistently.
• The bug is sporadic or occurs randomly.

Impact

• The bug affects critical functionality.
• The bug affects minor functionality.
• The bug is a cosmetic issue.