An interesting (albeit impossible to track) metric would be how much time the average YC application took - and if the time spent correlates with acceptance at all.
I wonder if that graph would look closer to a bell curve or exponential decay.
I wonder if that graph would look closer to a bell curve or exponential decay.
Applicants that submit at the last minute have likely been thinking about/living with the problem for a while, and they are able to quickly articulate the problem, their solution, and the reason that they will be successful.