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Has something changed with the YC process, I don't recall ever seeing as many announcements postfixed with the YC season (i.e YC W11) before that season actually happened as we do now.

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There are way more companies per class now, from about 10 up to 30 or so. They also didn't used to have a Winter class.

Even taking that into account. YC companies didn't used to describe themselves as (YC Xxx) until after they went through the process.

AFAIK there's always been a winter class (the second class I believe took place in Winter 06)

Ah, I see what you mean. Should have checked my source before saying that. If I got into YC, it'd be extremely tempting not to do that, though :)

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