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I can't imagine what it's like to go through so many applicants, so I won't.

A few thoughts:

- It would be interesting to see what made them 181 instead of 179. Would applicants this close to the cutoff get feedback of any kind about how they fared?

- Whoever ranks 271 might be missed out too in the future.

- Has any thought been given to sharing "you're this close" details with the 50 or 100 applicants that were within the proverbial whisker, or giving them a second review to see if any would move up or down relative to their peers in the same range?

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The closer a startup gets to the cutoff, the less there is to say about why they fell below it. I talk about that phenomenon here:

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html




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