[silverlake]

I'm unclear on what experience level you're looking for in applicants. I'm a fairly good programmer (phd in cs) but I'm shit compared to Norvig. I'm in NYC with time to kill this summer. Should I apply to be in hacker school? Or would I be a "Resident" instead?

[davidbalbert]

We're looking for people of all experience levels. Our goal is to make Hacker School the best place to improve as a programmer no matter what level you're at.

We've had a number of Ph.D.s and postdocs in various subjects including CS go through Hacker School. We would be happy to have any of our residents as Hacker Schoolers if they wanted to.

So in short: you should apply to Hacker School :)