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>90% of yc startups come in via the regular process I feel that it might then be safe to assume that accepted/applied_through_regular_process < accepted/applie

• jhuckestein 14y ago
  In my experience this is very true for most application situations with a low acceptance rate. If you're standing out by doing something vastly different, you'll already get more consideration than most. I once got into a very competitive neuro-science grad program by claiming in my application that I won't be able to answer any technical interview questions because I'm from a different field, but I could be useful in building an interdisciplinary team and helping with modeling/simulations.