[nicholasjbs]

Male and female applicants are judged by exactly the same standards. From our blog post when we first offerred grants:

"We're not going to lower the bar for female applicants. It frustrates us a little that we feel the need to say that, and we think it underlines the sexism (intentional and not) that so pervades the programming world.

But we want to say that now, so people don't have to waste time asking or debating the point. Women will be judged on the exact same scale as men. We think to do otherwise would be insulting and counterproductive. We care a lot about getting more women into Hacker School, but we won't do it at the expense of the quality of the batch."

From: https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/1-summer-2012-applications...