YC Summer 2017 Invites/Rejections
I have to be honest, this is an emotion I&#x27;m not entirely familiar with.<p>I totally get rejection, I&#x27;ve been rejected for all sorts of things, but normally for rejection I can understand on some level <i>why</i>.<p>This I don&#x27;t get.  Not only are we applying with a company that fits with an RFS, not only is our team really solid, not only is concept proven, but we have a possibility to do real social good that both makes money and helps people.<p>Even in talking to other people, the reaction was either &quot;why are you even <i>doing</i> YC&quot; or &quot;Sheesh I&#x27;m embarassed to by applying next to you&quot;.  I know that sounds really arrogant, and Im sorry for sounding like that.  I&#x27;m just...confused, I guess?  I really wish that the applications came with a reason why they were rejected, even if it was one sentence.<p>I can&#x27;t honestly believe that typing a one sentence &quot;rejection for reason&quot; would take that much extra time.  Even a drop down of &quot;we rejected you for this one of the following 5 canned reasons&quot; (your team was bad, your idea was bad, you have no revenue, etc.) would be helpful.<p>Is it because my cofounder is from another country?  Or because we don&#x27;t live in the bay area?<p>I seriously do not understand this.  I know that sounds a little bit whiney, but it&#x27;s just frustrating to have put this much emotional investment into something[1] and to get rejected for it without even a <i>brief</i> explanation of why.<p>[1]: For people that don&#x27;t live in the bay, applying to this program is a big deal.  I skipped out on events next week because we <i>might</i> have to block out time for an interview, I moved things around this week specifically so that I could schedule an interview if possible, I moved things around this summer so that if I needed to be in SF I could etc.<p>I get not counting your chickens and all of that, I don&#x27;t think we did.  Nothing is lost for us here, and moving events and things around isn&#x27;t a big deal, obviously that is just part of doing business.  It is just frustrating to get a rejection email that doesn&#x27;t even include a few seconds explaining <i>why</i>.<p>Forever onward, obviously.  It just really sucks not having feedback on why you were rejected.