Now that we know which Y combinator members were accepted into the Y combinator program, LightSpeed, and TechStars. Let's see who got into Highland. Anyone get the interview call this week yet?

Reading the forum, I noticed a lot of you are applying to Techstars and Y. If you were accepted to Techstars, you will have to give an acceptance decision by April 16th. However, lets say you were given an interview to Y but acceptance is not offered until April 29th. So what would you do?

Take a leap of faith and wait for Y, knowing that you just given up a sure opportunity to be mentored or go for Techstars?

Of course both are great programs

We tell people finally on the 22nd, not the 29th. Which is still after the 16th, but only 6 days after.

I read an old RWW 2006 article that said if you're not from an ivy league school, than Y Combinator doesn't consider you. Anyone know if this is true?

Sure, I know. It's false (of course). Sounds like something written by someone we turned down. What is RWW?

Read/Write Web.

I think he's referring to their profile on you: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/paul_graham_profile.php

RWW refers to Read/WriteWeb (Richard's blog). I haven't read the article BitGeek is referring to but I am guessing, like most posts on R/WW, it was written by a guest author.

How about people with no university education?

Yes, we've funded people who've never been to college, along with a large number who didn't finish.

One of the best programmers I've ever met dropped out of high school (I believe he eventually got a GED). Now he's Director (but never stopped programming) of an entire department with a handful of CS PhDs under him.

Do you do background checks for criminal history or education? Are there any fixed requirements like this?

(Sorry for not asking all of this in my first post)

If we didn't allow people with criminal records, we would have had to exclude one of our own partners.

I'm starting to feel that the elusive, intangible rtm is but a legendary myth, like the griffin or the free lunch.

how about the reddit founders? they say uva is the mit of the south, but even mit isn't an ivy.

They are wrong. Ga Tech is the MIT of the south :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_in_popular_culture

Not sure why we are proud of being qualified by "of the South" though.

Go Jackets!

Alexis (of Reddit) said he was joking right after he made that comment at his presentation at Startup School. I think the joke was referring to Chris Anderson's earlier talk -- he said that Wired had acquired Reddit and it was done by a couple of guys from MIT using Rails.

My team members enjoy creating things for the hell of it because it's fun. The application asked if we had built anything else. A lot of the things we are building is almost entering beta stage. I would say maybe 3 of the projects. We built it because it was fun to build.

We're concerned that Y combinator may think that we lack focused if we shared the projects on our applications. Should we or shouldn't we list the other projects we developed for fun?

Variety of ideas are indicative of the plasticity of mind. Rest assured, this is something YC will see as a good thing. Go ahead and list them.