If you advertise that you only accept/hire <n% of applicants, what you're telling me is less that you're exclusive and more that you don't properly communicate with potential applicants and consider it beneficial to you to waste their time
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Replying to @webdevMason
YC only accepts a small percentage of applicants, but they certainly don't want to waste anyone's time.
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Replying to @paulg
Having a low acceptance rate is not the same thing as advertising one — if you're treating low acceptance as a value add, I don't think your incentives are aligned with mine as an applicant
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Replying to @lumiferrous @paulg
Ivies notoriously advertise to students they'd never consider accepting
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Replying to @webdevMason @paulg
Yes, and they don't seem to have a shortage of applicants
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