<story><title>Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-every-company-that-applied-is-now-accepted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwmeoutoft11</author><text>Unpopular opinion here.&lt;p&gt;The value of startupschool (as a previous graduate) is the individual attention we got from a hand selected instructor.&lt;p&gt;I know yc screwed up with the emails, and their response was to please those that they have misled, accidentally of course. But I think they also devalued the class. It&amp;#x27;s gonna be much harder to offer the quality attention of the past.&lt;p&gt;I think the right thing they should have done, which is harder, was for yc to apologize for their mistake and move on. I know it sucked for those who were selected then deselected, but if you are a startup owner you need to be prepared to be rejected, cause someone will reject you.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know what criteria startupschool goes through to select a company, but I think they must have seen something unique in those four thousands.&lt;p&gt;I do congratulate them for this decision still because obviously the influx of students is gonna be a great challenge to surmount.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r_singh</author><text>I personally think that they&amp;#x27;ve rectified this in a smart way by introducing 2 tracks: the advisor track and a normal one (this is just a guess since I received mail saying I&amp;#x27;ve been accepted to the &amp;#x27;advisor track&amp;#x27;).&lt;p&gt;So YC is giving forum access to all the companies that applied but advisor access only to a subset of all the companies that applied. Is that correct?</text></comment>
<story><title>Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-every-company-that-applied-is-now-accepted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwmeoutoft11</author><text>Unpopular opinion here.&lt;p&gt;The value of startupschool (as a previous graduate) is the individual attention we got from a hand selected instructor.&lt;p&gt;I know yc screwed up with the emails, and their response was to please those that they have misled, accidentally of course. But I think they also devalued the class. It&amp;#x27;s gonna be much harder to offer the quality attention of the past.&lt;p&gt;I think the right thing they should have done, which is harder, was for yc to apologize for their mistake and move on. I know it sucked for those who were selected then deselected, but if you are a startup owner you need to be prepared to be rejected, cause someone will reject you.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know what criteria startupschool goes through to select a company, but I think they must have seen something unique in those four thousands.&lt;p&gt;I do congratulate them for this decision still because obviously the influx of students is gonna be a great challenge to surmount.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>You make a good point about withstanding rejection. But from the discussions that I overheard this afternoon, part of the motivation is that it&amp;#x27;s what the YC partners wanted to do anyway. That is, it&amp;#x27;s not only about making people feel better (though we certainly do want that), but also about realizing the original vision. I think Adora is planning to write a blog post about this.&lt;p&gt;If it works out, then the mistake will turn out to have been more of a catalyst than a mistake, which would be a good outcome. Hopefully people will feel that way in the end.</text></comment>