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Zach Yadegari, 18, CEO and founder of a $30 million startup, shocked the world when he revealed he was rejected by a series of prestigious American universities.
Zach Yadegari’s company is the owner of the calorie tracking app Cal AI. On April 1, Yadegari’s post on social network X attracted more than 10 million views, when he publicly listed the applications of 18 American universities, of which only three (Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas and Miami) were accepted.
The 15 universities that rejected him were all top names, such as Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York, Duke...
The young millionaire claims to have a perfect GPA (4/4), a 34/36 ACT score, and a resume that says he co-founded a high-revenue tech company. Cal AI was once hailed by Forbes as an application that "challenges the industry's long-standing giants."
Many people were shocked by Yadegari's announcement.
“Any institution would be lucky to have you. Admissions officers are probably jealous of you,” one person wrote.
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, was also surprised. "This is crazy," Ohanian commented.
In response to questions about whether the essay influenced his results, Yadegari shared his own writing. He said he started programming at age 7 and was earning $30 an hour teaching three years later. At age 12, Yadegari launched his first app and left an online gaming company at age 16.
He founded Cal AI while still in high school. The app, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to track calories from food images, quickly grew and generated millions of dollars in revenue. Yadegari was so successful that he initially believed college was unnecessary, but later changed his mind.
"I realized that college was the path to take me to the next level in the work I've been doing. In this next chapter, I want to learn from both professors and students, not just from computers or books," Yadegari said.
Despite the Ivy League rejections, Yadegari remains optimistic about the future. Of the three schools that accepted him, Georgia Institute of Technology is renowned for its engineering and technology programs. The University of Miami is another promising option.
Many believe that Yadegari's success in business sets him apart, proving that the traditional educational path is not the only path to success.
TB (according to VnExpress)