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Ask PG: How popular has Startup School become?
Based on previous years, it looks like maximum attendee capacity is set at 600 people for Kresge Auditorium. Have the number of applications been drastically increasing every year? What percentage of applications do you anticipate accepting this year?
- pg 19y agoThe number of applicants has increased every year. It looks like there were about 1300 last year. Presumably more this year. Which means statistically the chance of being accepted would be a bit less than 50%. However, the odds would be better for anyone who's reading this, because most people reading this are probably hackers. We hate having to turn people down. (Among other things, it's a lot of work to read all the applications.) We'd get a bigger venue if we could, but there just isn't one.
- andreyf 19y agothe chance of being accepted would be a bit less than 50% Typo? the odds would be better for anyone who's reading this By how much? Can you say how many applicants have >10 karma? Or better - could you publish a list of karma scores of everyone who has applied?
- iamelgringo 19y agoThere's no place to put karma score in. My karma score is currently 1956, and I got turned down last year. I'm hoping I can get in this year.
- andreyf 19y agothere's no place to put karma score in But there's a place for your user name(s). Since Arc is so expressive, I'm sure it would only take one line of code to get the list ;)
- cstejerean 19y agoThere's a place for the yc username on the app? Where?
- pg 19y agoThere isn't. But: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=110672 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=110672
- vlad 19y agoI got an expired link when I clicked submit, and when I backtracked, the form no longer contained my data. I successfully submitted a new instance of a blank application a few times (it accepted blank input.) Then I submitted my real application. Will that confuse the system?
- andreyf 19y agoI thought we were talking about YC funding. oops.
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- lyime 19y agoyea i have a feeling the applicant pool is going to be huge this time around.