This happened with us, We applied to 3 groups and were accepted into two and asked to interview at YC. All the seed groups were pretty cool about it.
The first groups deadline was so early, we wouldn't have known about offers from the two other seed groups. After giving us an offer extended our decision period, by over 2 weeks. The second groups deadline was towards the end of that time and actually told us we were accepted slightly early so we could make a decision between the two groups.
YC invited us out for and interview, but that was going to be so much later that we didn't think we could put off the decision that long. PG was great about giving us his thoughts on the matter and talked on the phone with us some about the situation.
In the end we made our decision to accept one of the offers and not do the YC interview. It worked out well for us, but it was a bit stressful and complicated.
One problem is that the programs start at different times and really out of timing need to make decisions earlier. One of the programs we applied to started a week after the YC interviews and obviously by that time they need to know who is going to be showing up. It would be great if they could all sync up the timing a bit more like college semesters are roughly at the same times.
The first groups deadline was so early, we wouldn't have known about offers from the two other seed groups. After giving us an offer extended our decision period, by over 2 weeks. The second groups deadline was towards the end of that time and actually told us we were accepted slightly early so we could make a decision between the two groups.
YC invited us out for and interview, but that was going to be so much later that we didn't think we could put off the decision that long. PG was great about giving us his thoughts on the matter and talked on the phone with us some about the situation.
In the end we made our decision to accept one of the offers and not do the YC interview. It worked out well for us, but it was a bit stressful and complicated.
One problem is that the programs start at different times and really out of timing need to make decisions earlier. One of the programs we applied to started a week after the YC interviews and obviously by that time they need to know who is going to be showing up. It would be great if they could all sync up the timing a bit more like college semesters are roughly at the same times.