[shafyy]

The only reason they had 12k applications this time was because they incentivized every Startup School company to apply in order to potentially get $10k. I would be pretty shocked if there won't be significantly less applications for S19.

Not sure why they did that to be honest, giving someone $10k to apply is probably the best way to decrease application quality and have more work to sort through. Maybe for more data?

[2arrs2ells]

What did folks have to do to get the $10k?

[shafyy]

I didn't participate at Startup School this time, so not sure. But I think they said they give out $10k each to the top 10 participants IF they applied to YC.