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Any thoughts on the risk of a change in "demographics"? It seems like one of the coolest things about Hacker School is the diversity of people. If the motivation for applying changes and/or it gets a lot harder to get in, there could be a big change in at least the applicant pool. Not necessarily for the worse, but still a change.

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I don't know enough to say if this will change the demographics of Hacker School. We'll presumably get a higher percent of applicants who know who Peter Norvig is than we've gotten before, but I don't think that's going to be the dominant factor.

The best tool we have to affect the demographics of Hacker School is outreach to specific groups, which we do a fair amount of via mailing lists, events, meetups, etc. I have a hunch that any demographic shifts from news like this will be more than offset by any active outreach work that we do.

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