Just telling people to choose 5 seems really flawed. You are both telling people that being interested in working at many different places is wrong, and tellin

Just telling people to choose 5 seems really flawed. You are both telling people that being interested in working at many different places is wrong, and telling them they need to choose 5 (because programmers are going to try to optimize). The obvious good solution would be to algorithmically recommend startups based on a quick survey. The better solution is to have somebody whose job it is to know all about every YC startup, their teams, culture, and needs spend 5 minutes with you and give a few good recommendations.