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Re:Announcement: YC alumni will help us read applications by pg on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @06:14PM (#908967)
As I explained here, the alumni are going to read applications in addition to us, not instead of us:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=908585

I'm not sure what you meant about a "one in three chance," but it sounds like you're misunderstanding how we read applications. We don't split them up. Also, there are 4 YC founders, not 3.

The way it usually works is that Robert, Trevor and I (separately) read and rank the applications. Then Jessica looks at the top-ranked ones to see if there are any red flags we've overlooked.

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Re:Announcement: YC alumni will help us read applications by tianaco on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @06:22PM (#908991)
My mistake. I spoke to a few YC alums and they told me that RTM wasn't really involved. Thank you for clarifying.
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Re:Announcement: YC alumni will help us read applications by vivek_ganesh on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @11:11PM (#909411)
Paul,

Would you tell us, which YC alumni is going to read the applications for us in advance,if we see any conflicts then, we delte our application.

Thanks,

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Re:Announcement: YC alumni will help us read applications by pg on Thursday October 29, 2009 @02:01AM (#909575)
Software assigns them randomly. But if you want me to delete your application just let me know.
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