Does anyone want to predict how many YC Fellowships will be announced, or if their own application, or interview request will be successful.<p>I'm going to start and say, they will announce 120 fellowships and that I won't be in them nor get an interview. Just a feeling.<p>If someone wants to create a poll for this, that could be cool.
It was originally supposed to be 20 according to Sam A., but they're supposedly going to let a few more in because they had over 6,500 applicants.
From <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10124308" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10124308</a>:<p><pre><code> Number of companies we offered to fund yesterday for the first YC Fellowship: 32
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That's a pretty steep cut-off from the number of interviews (~120).
300 was a cut off, so I'm guessing they sent 50 - 150 interview requests.<p>I got the worst category of rejection letter ( no re-encouragement to apply in W15, no 300 ).<p>I think they'll take more than 20.