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Not to mention that the “top 10%” shifts year-to-year as much or more than HYPS admissions.

Talent _development_ requires substantive feedback, or at least substantial visibility into the competition versus a binary outcome. For example, tell Founders if they have the substance or right fidelity but poor sense of timing. (And market timing often in the hands of the VCs anyways).

Without real feedback, it’s much closer to a real estate license than an academic math program.



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