[andrewhillman]

I do not think YC wants to do an experiment for the sake of experimenting because YC is an experiment in itself. Seems like many commenting are missing the his point. The pool of applicants seems to come from those who gain access to computers at an early age. Unfortunately, minorities don't get this early access to computing, therefore, very few applicants are minorities. This has little to do with race and color and more to do with the level of interest of the person, but again, this tails back to how early a person comes in contact with a computer.