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Ask HN: Betting on the number of YC Fellowships

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Does anyone want to predict how many YC Fellowships will be announced, or if their own application, or interview request will be successful.

I'm going to start and say, they will announce 120 fellowships and that I won't be in them nor get an interview. Just a feeling.

If someone wants to create a poll for this, that could be cool.

I thought I read in the FAQ thread a lot less than 120, something like 12.

I think YC would throw 1 - 1.5 M at an experiment.

For ref they do 10x this on YC startups every 6 months.

It was originally supposed to be 20 according to Sam A., but they're supposedly going to let a few more in because they had over 6,500 applicants.

  Number of companies we offered to fund yesterday for the first YC Fellowship: 32

That's a pretty steep cut-off from the number of interviews (~120).

300 was a cut off, so I'm guessing they sent 50 - 150 interview requests.

I got the worst category of rejection letter ( no re-encouragement to apply in W15, no 300 ).

I think they'll take more than 20.