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Re:You have a 1 in 20 chance of being chosen by YC. Pretty ... by palish on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @04:35PM (#47584)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372

Certainly not hard evidence but the limiting factor seems to be good applications, not how many they're able to accept. That's a great sign.

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Re:You have a 1 in 20 chance of being chosen by YC. Pretty ... by blored on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @04:48PM (#47590)
Maybe even more than 500. [link eludes me] But somewhere it was written that the Cambridge session was the unpopular session. And since May 2007 YC has been featured in Newsweek, in addition to getting a groundswell press from each individual company (eg. Weebly in Time).

I'd bank on about 700-800 applications.

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Re:You have a 1 in 20 chance of being chosen by YC. Pretty ... by pg on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @04:55PM (#47595)
> somewhere it was written that the Cambridge session was the unpopular session

If anything it's the other way around, because fewer people are free to try something new on Jan 1 than June 1.

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Re:You have a 1 in 20 chance of being chosen by YC. Pretty ... by blored on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @05:55PM (#47989)
I guess I got it backwards then, :S woops.
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