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Let me guess. That would be a hack to engage a list of post-rejection uninterested users.
Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
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#102We were also accepted and then rejected. Doesn't exactly instill confidence.
You're right. We're going to have to work extremely hard to regain people's confidence.
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#103Hey I was like really cool there for an hour or two :)
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#105Guys - we are deeply sorry for this screw-up. I know we got people's hopes up only to let you down, and I feel terrible about it. While it doesn't excuse our mistake, for what it's worth, Startup School makes the classes and all the materials available online to everyone. So even if you didn't get accepted to the advisor track, we hope you will follow along, watch the videos, and find the material useful. My apologie…
Mistakes happen. Waiting two hours to tell people, then doing so from a do-not-reply address, however, is a poor way to handle them. If we make a mistake like this as a company, we at least try to make up for it in some way, and make our users feel valued.
It took us a little while to realize what we had done. Once we did, we sent out the correction email as soon as we could. That's not an excuse, but I don't want it to feel like we were intentionally leaving people in the dark.
Sending the follow-up from a do-not-reply was also our mistake. Our default outbound address is do-not-reply, and we forgot to change it as we were drafting the correction. Please follow up to startupschool@ycombinator.com. :(
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "do not reply" was particularly upsetting.
And the “accepted to audit” stings super hard. We were accepted and then rejected. I’m a stoic person but this really hurts. We were on a pathway to earning success with help and now we’re off again on our own in the wilderness.
Right. The accepted to audit should have just said "you didn't get in" accepted to audit made it briefly seem like we were still accepted to something.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about making this up to those of us who got false-acceptance emails by providing some feedback on our applications?
I'm happy to do that. Email us at startupschool@ycombinator.com with your name so we can do that.
I appreciate the initiative, very nice way to apologize. Thanks
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#108Accepted, then rejected but “accepted into Audit course”, is this a joke?!
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#109No post body was provided.
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#110Got in shared the news with everyone, Got out waiting hoping the second email is an error, before letting the team know.