[examancer]

2 of your 3 red flags can be almost immediately dismissed.

A quick search into the mentors will reveal that many of them are indeed highly respected members of their community and skilled developers. Some of the skilled developers have also worked in or built startups and have experience with doing much more than development.

Also, its pretty clear this will be the program's inaugural class, so providing outcomes from program grads is obviously not possible. The fact that this is the inaugural class might give some cause for concern, but they are very up front about that.

Your criticisms about the application seem valid, though minor.

I am in no way affiliated with the school, though I have met a few of the mentors before.