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OK,

Most (all?) startups have broken things. Mine did and I tried to hide them at first. But I guess YC is at a point that, after thousands of startups, they've seen most of the patterns and just want to help you fix them. They'll help you no matter in what shape your company is.

Also, some startups plainly lie about their metrics, but those rarely get accepted to YC, from my limited experience.

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Why would you lie about metrics?

That seems highly verifiable. You should only lie about things that will be hard to find out like how many women you ever slept with.

I never lied about metrics but I've seen startups that do outside YC. Most of them don't do it out of malice but due to bad math. It's easy, for example, to miscalculate CAC in the early days of your company.

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