MIT doesn't take the common app, and I don't suspect YC will either. When you're at the top, you can afford to do that sort of thing... TechStars would do itsel

MIT doesn't take the common app, and I don't suspect YC will either. When you're at the top, you can afford to do that sort of thing... TechStars would do itself a world of good if it simply accepted a verbatim copy of the YC application; and so would every other seed funder. Creating a different standard would only cement them all as in the hunt for position number 2.