I applied but did not receive an email. Does that mean I was not accepted or did something else happen?
Same here. I applied, but no email on way or the other. Is there a way to check acceptance status on the web?
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#62rejected...le sigh what is the criteria to get in anyways?
Reject here as well. I think the "What's the coolest thing you've made?" question held the most weight. Edit: I say this because I felt my response lacked anything significant. I have to say, it is a good motivation to get you working on side projects.
Might want to read that again. http://www.paulgraham.com/judgement.html
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reject here as well. I think the "What's the coolest thing you've made?" question held the most weight. Edit: I say this because I felt my response lacked anything significant. I have to say, it is a good motivation to get you working on side projects.
Might want to read that again. http://www.paulgraham.com/judgement.html
Actually reading it for the first time, thanks for the post.
Edit: So we are all random selections and rejections?
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#64I bet understanding the acceptance process here would be fascinating.
YC is, by all accounts, is an organization tirelessly focused on making decisions based on the merit and potential of the founders. They have clear opinions of what is a good indicator of merit, but have shown a willingness to test their opinions and refine.
If anyone involved would be willing to shed light, I'd love to know how you've refined the process of identifying good Startup School participants over the years.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Might want to read that again. http://www.paulgraham.com/judgement.html
Actually reading it for the first time, thanks for the post. Edit: So we are all random selections and rejections?
I would guess so. I was surprised by the rejections that were posted on this thread as well. I use to think that they only rejected biz devs, as it's more of a way for hackers to get up to speed on what is involved in a startup.
But it seems like when your demand outstrips your capacity, you need to make cuts. And since most people fall in the middle as an average, chances are, you'll end up making a large number of small mistakes when you're picking teams.
I've been to the last two startup schools, and for what it's worth, you can see the talks on justin.TV. You do miss out on the atmosphere, but most of the socializing happens after the day's events, not necessarily as much time to do so during the intermission.
So check out the talks online, and then see what after parties there are.
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#66rejected...le sigh what is the criteria to get in anyways?
I wonder what the age distribution is between applicants and those accepted. Rejected as well. But I'm "old" in YC-years so I didn't expect to get an invite.
I got accepted and I'm in high school so the range must be pretty big. I'm still debating over whether I should go cause I'm on the east coast.
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Don't get worked up replying. This appears to be a troll. He didn't apply.
I applied and got rejected and was wondering if I was rejected on the quality of my application or on the quality of my product. I guess in the grand scheme of things rejection is rejection and it dosent matter but I was still wondering.
I wouldn't read much into it. We got so many more good applications than we had room for this time that we might as well have been flipping coins.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder what the age distribution is between applicants and those accepted. Rejected as well. But I'm "old" in YC-years so I didn't expect to get an invite.
I got accepted and I'm in high school so the range must be pretty big. I'm still debating over whether I should go cause I'm on the east coast.
This would make for an excellent college entrance essay :)
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#70I refuse to accept that I suck Paul. Seriously. You're 1-5 people trying to judge on what you think is going to work. I personally think reddit gave you a bit of an ego trip. I think your vision of the future is clouded by visions of the past. The future is strange and you're going to miss it. Enjoy your 15 minutes.
i'm not sure what the startup school email said (i live on the east coast), but my rejection from yc was pretty civil... We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally. The quality of the applications continues to increase with each cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of interviews we can do, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups. Another…
Very nice. It says a lot about YC that they put effort into making rejection letters not sound discouraging.