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>For high school students with aspirations in the tech field it is like the MIT, Caltech and Stanford all rolled into one. not anymore. the bar for the batches
by choppaface 5y ago
>For high school students with aspirations in the tech field it is like the MIT, Caltech and Stanford all rolled into one.
not anymore. the bar for the batches in the last few years has dropped substantially. even former YC founders have shared this observation. that’s likely inevitable through scale and the investors getting rich and … busy with being rich.
don’t compare YC to a 100+ year old university. the incentives and timelines are wildly different. there will always be a segment of ambitious people who chase a brand no matter the field. there are many who covet YC like a McKinsey or Goldman or Supreme Court clerkship, but YC isn’t like any of those either.