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Last October, Graham said that the firm was seeing about one submission per minute for the most recent class.

Is this right? It sounds wrong. Or was it just on the last day of submissions or something?

As I recall, yes, it was right near the last day of submissions that they started getting 1 per minute. Most applications are on the last day.

I’d be interested to see a graph of submissions/day from announcement till deadline. Is there such a thing?

Yes, that was during the last day.

I've wondered if this is a skewed statistic due to the "resubmit" feature. How many of these submissions were resubmissions, versus "first-time" submissions?

It seems more reasonable to do a last minute check, and update the app with any most recent progress (as I did) on the last day.

They were first-time submissions.

It's still a rather meaningless statistic though.

Is there a total published anywhere on yc with total applicant teams vs accepted during last two batches? I remember someone saying yc was more exclusive than HBS now. Is that true? (harvard accepts roughly 7% of applicants)

It's about 3%- http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/23/y-combinator-demo-day-the-u...

thanks

I've seen the 3% number mentioned a few times, and seem to remember hearing that this has stayed consistent for some time (so more applications but still 3% -> bigger batch size) but I can't find the original source just now.

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