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Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Accepted. Told my team. We celebrated. Then received apology/rejection. Honestly, while it would be a low probability of us getting into the YC Batch, we thought we were high probability of getting into online startup school. We have an active MVP for 2 months, a Fortune 500 enterprise customer, and a solid market opportunity using previously validated use cases. We thought we were a really good fit for this program.…

Please stay tuned. People at YC are determined to make this right.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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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.

This would be awesome. I’m sure all founders would love just a little insight on why they were rejected so that they can try to address the shortcomings.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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So I am confused. I got accepted in advisor track and then now its saying I am accepted for auditor track. So am I in? or am I not?

It was a gigantic mistake on our part. We sent out emails that accepted everyone that was rejected and rejected everyone that was accepted. It was a big boolean fuckup and we're deeply sorry. As for whether you're in or not - stay tuned. People have been working feverishly on this for several hours and an announcement is almost ready.

What if I didn't received either a rejection or an acceptance email?

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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I'm glad I only told one person, because it is pretty heartbreaking to get un-accepted. But I get it- software glitches make mistakes, people make mistakes, companies make mistakes. If something THIS small was going to deter me, maybe I should just give up and go get a regular job. But that's not gonna happen! Let's do this!
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