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Crazy stuff. Can you imagine the analog in other professions? "I got rejected from Harvard Law School. So I got a couple of my fellow applicants together and
by phamilton 16y ago
Crazy stuff. Can you imagine the analog in other professions?
"I got rejected from Harvard Law School. So I got a couple of my fellow applicants together and decided to study law together for 3 years, sans professors. We all just got 6 figure offers from the big firms on Wall Street."
- davidw 16y agoHere is a list of companies that didn't go through YCombinator and did pretty well: Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Cisco, Amazon. So I think the 'sans professors' thing is a bit unfair.
- phamilton 16y agoAnd Abraham Lincoln went 'sans professors'. I didn't mean to bash. I merely meant to accentuate how unique the situation/industry is.
- bhousel 16y agoMaybe a better analogy: The Boston marathon fills up so quickly that a local running club director decided to just start his own marathon nearby for runners who didn't get into Boston. http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-297--13469-0,00.html http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-297--13469...