&gt; cultural knowledge and norms required to become aware of, and then signal competency to, YC.<p>If the core problem is the poor&#x27;s lack of skill in signally competency, how would it matter if the application was online or not (e.g. a mail in form)?<p>I feel that YC programs that target specific minorities also already try to account for this issue in an efficient way, though I may wrong.