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YC W2019 Invite/Rejection Thread

41 points by revisionzero 7 years ago · 28 comments · 1 min read


Has anyone received an email yet?

ploggingdev 7 years ago

None so far it seems according to the people in the chat : https://www.hackerschat.net/

beautybasics 7 years ago

Join Slack group of applicants

https://join.slack.com/t/ycw2018applicants/shared_invite/enQ...

yurylifshits 7 years ago

Some decision letters have been already sent by now.

Another chat group of applicants: https://app.openland.com/joinChannel/TKnSVeH

imax11 7 years ago

First time applying. Got the rejection letter. One and done. Will push forward but wont apply again.

  • Jack000 7 years ago

    imo it's probably better to be rejected at this stage than the interview stage.

    I previously got an interview and spent 4 days in travel (they only fund the cheapest flights on hipmunk, which often has several connections), for a 10 minute interview where I thought most of the questions were answered in my written application, only to be rejected anyways.

    I'm sure there are sound reasons for the short interview time, but it feels disproportionate to the effort. The best part of that experience was probably talking to the other startups.

    • imax11 7 years ago

      True. I didnt appriciate the late rejection letters past 3am EST. Seems a bit self serving. No need to wait that long to send out letters except to creat a hype

      • hughguiney 7 years ago

        I was furious with that. First off, all I knew was that invites were being sent out on Tuesday. Then after intermittently refreshing my inbox all morning and into the early afternoon, I went to Twitter and saw some people claiming they don’t get sent out until 10 PM Pacific. Thought it strange for them to come so far outside of business hours; not to mention 10 PM Pacific is 12 AM Central (my time), 1 AM Eastern. But I stayed up past my bedtime and still, nothing. At 1 AM Central I finally said f it, and went to bed. This morning I got my rejection with a timestamp of 2:42 AM. Seriously?? Now I have to start my day off with a rejection instead of ending my day with a rejection where I could sleep on it and probably feel better in the morning. So incredibly inconsiderate.

pradeepb30 7 years ago

Will the late applicants be notified as well?

  • pradhuman29 7 years ago

    Yes, this is the best part of YC team that they consider each and every applications equally even if you were late in applying.

pepelondono 7 years ago

Good luck all!

vickiitb 7 years ago

Haven't received the email yet

pacheamp 7 years ago

acceptance letters 1st or rejection letters?

vbell 7 years ago

Nope, nothing

nemoni0323 7 years ago

has anyone received an email??

reccsmith 7 years ago

Nothing yet

tyr034 7 years ago

not yet

kanyatta 7 years ago

nothing yet from this end

kanyatta 7 years ago

have received a regret

ndebruyn24 7 years ago

nothing yet

yousifa 7 years ago

some acceptances have gone out

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