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I don't know. The fair way to handles this would have been to first honour the original deal. They have already put people through the application process and the were going to reject them if this hadn't happened. Instead of "accepting everyone" they should have rejected the ones original being rejected and then asked them forgiveness and confidence in this additional track. Now they have left a lot of people in the awkward position of doubt if they want to do it but without an easy way to say no.

Yeah, same here. Got the email about accepting our startup to the advisory track. My friend got the email about the normal track.

The advisor track email was the email they didn't intend to send referenced in this post, isn't it?