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We couldn't let that happen!

Yes. As part of our annual college outreach tour, we're holding in-person interviews for students at this stop.

Nope, anyone can apply to attend the Startup School event.

We're working with the venue to stream it. At the very least, we will be recording the entire event and uploading it to YouTube!

Yes! It'll be recorded and put onto YouTube afterwards.

Got me there, peepeepoopoo47.

From YC's head of public policy: https://twitter.com/lutherlowe/status/1721636692849836254

hah!

Love to see it.

We'll be announcing the early application process for S22 soon!

This year we're opening Startup School to all active startups -- all you have to do is sign up, and you're in.

Totally understand where you're coming from! As such, watching videos is not a requirement to complete the course -- though we highly recommend it.

You can watch the videos at your leisure, or just watch the content that applies best to you and your startup.

We're sorry that your experience with Startup School last year wasn't great. That was not our intention, and hopefully you'll give us another shot.

You're definitely right that we were scrambling in the last minute to build software and adjust the program to better cater to the large number of companies in 2018.

As Kyle also mentioned in this thread, we spent a lot of time listening to the community and have made quite a few new changes and improvements for 2019 to better support the program at this scale and improve the experience for founders.

We'll also be taking Startup School on the road to meet SUS founders across the globe and will have YC alumni and partners participating in the Forum to help advise.

You can sign out of your account via https://account.ycombinator.com.

Unfortunately deals and credits are only available to startups actively participating in the program.

Correct, you're all set! We'll look into making that a little more clear in the software.

You can sign up directly at startupschool.org, under 'Sign Up'. Here's a direct link in case you're having issues: https://www.startupschool.org/register.

We'll be sharing more on how that works in the near future, but essentially we've built a few features to help you connect with other founders in the community. You're under no obligation to partner with someone -- we just wanted to give founders the tools to connect with one another.

However you decide to continue interacting with the founders you meet is entirely up to you.

This year we're opening Startup School to all active startups -- all you have to do is sign up / re-enroll, and you're in. As long as you have your profile updated by July 22nd, you should be set.

Auditing the course will give you access to parts of the SUS software as well. You'll be able to access the weekly progress update tool and forums -- you just won't be added to a group for weekly group sessions.

Yep, you are correct in that you can just edit the details of the form through your profile. No need to create a new profile/company/apply again.

You can also find all of the content from past lectures in the Startup School library: https://www.startupschool.org/library

Last year's lectures can also be found in podcast form: http://backtracks.fm/ycombinator/startup-school/feed

(Steven from the Startup School team here.)

Yes, absolutely! You can re-enroll via the link found on your dashboard or by going here: https://www.startupschool.org/courses/5/register.

That's actually untrue - almost half of the Startup School companies that we ended up funding for the W2019 batch were unlaunched.

That's a great idea. We'll definitely consider that.

Since this is a brand new update to Startup School, we're going to work on figuring out how we can offer discounts/deals to all founders in the program. Stay tuned!

We have a limited number of advisors but YC partners/staff will be on the forum to help out in any way we can.

Thank you for giving us another chance. We're truly sorry for all the trouble this caused.

Yep!

You should create a new account.