YC Application Rejections

Mind Hack: If you are rejected by YC, assume you went to them for advice and not for money.

Has YC rejected applicants despite impressive early traction?

great job! great attitude! who did you raise from and how did failing at YC application help you? I've applied for this cycle. Waiting eagerly.

You can be rejected by YC for many reasons, one possibility is that others were even better...

You could probably post your application here and get feedback that would be at least in the same ballpark as what YC thought.

Not everyone gets accepted into YC

Is it considered good etiquette to keep applying to YC even if we failed in previous attempts?

Given that YC has less than a 3% acceptance rate is it wise to turn down a program because it might affect your chance of getting into YC?

We just got ours:Thank you for applying to Y Combinator; however, your startup was not selected to interview for the upcoming Y Combinator batch. We carefully reviewed thousands of applications and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of promising groups. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the interview threshold ends up getting accepted to YC. That means there are surely other good groups that fall

How many YC companies failed to get in first time but got in on later applications - any knowledge on this?