There's a lot to be said for going to an Ivy League school, it definitely gives you a head start in a lot of fields - the connections you can make while at scho

There's a lot to be said for going to an Ivy League school, it definitely gives you a head start in a lot of fields - the connections you can make while at school, the brilliant people you'll learn from, and the vast support network you'll have when you get out are not matched at the thousands of lesser schools across the country, and the extra kick you'll receive from being at an Ivy will be most useful right after you graduate. But the fact that the "lesser" schools can't quite give you that same push doesn't mean that they shouldn't exist, or that you might not be helped immensely by going to one of them. Not sustainable, sure - YC is the elite of elite accelerators, obviously it's going to be extremely difficult to reproduce its success. But there's still room to grow here, and a lot of people going it on their own that can't get into one of the elite accelerators (if I'm correct YC now accepts a vastly smaller percentage of applicants than Yale or Harvard) but would greatly benefit from some funding, advice, and being helped through some of the unfamiliar business dealings while they focused on their products. Maybe 500 accelerators is a bit much, but I'd imagine that we could certainly do with a few more, unless we've already reached a point where spots are going unfilled...