Tech whiz Zach Yadegari, 18, who boasts an impressive 4.0 GPA and 34 ACT score, was rejected from 15 of the 18 schools he applied to, including every Ivy League institution.
Yadegari is a tech developer and has made over $30 million before setting foot on a college campus due to his AI-calorie counting app, Cal AI.
Despite his impressive achievements, all 8 Ivy League schools and 7 other schools rejected him.
The teen experienced a turbulent application process despite massive success with his grades and business venture.
Yadegari revealed that he received rejection letters from all eight Ivy League schools plus MIT, Stanford, Washington University, Duke, USC, the University of Virginia, NYU and Vanderbilt.
According to the tech whiz, he may not have fit into what universities were looking for in potential students, because those institutions are looking for people who fit in a box.
“I think that college admissions tries to place students in this rubric, a very tight box, that makes it difficult for students with achievements outside of school, like an entrepreneur, to really stand out,” he told Fox News.
Yadegari said he wanted to go to college because he missed out on “a lot of social events” in recent years.
“I’m 18, I want to hang out with other 18-year-olds. I don’t want to go straight into the business world, just yet,” he added.
The University of Miami, Georgia Tech and the University of Texas were the only schools to accept his application.
“I didn’t expect to be accepted to all of these colleges, however, I did expect to at least be accepted to a couple of the top schools I was applying to,” Yadegari told The Post. “I think that entrepreneurial accomplishments may not be fully appreciated.”
The teen, who has been coding since he was 7 and had his first project on Apple’s App Store when he was 12, said he only began to feel the weight of his situation after he was rejected from Stanford.
“I held out hope for Stanford, but then when I opened their rejection letter, all of the prior rejections just flooded in and really hit me at once,” Yadegari previously told The Post.
He is not letting the mental anguish get to him and he compared his life to other successful entrepreneurs who didn’t need higher education.
He has now committed to attend the University of Miami.
“Update: I officially committed to Umiami,” Yadegari wrote to his followers on X.
