Only in modern times, would an 18 year old kid, who runs an 8 figure company, who employs 15 people, and made an app to combat the number 1 health crisis of his nation would be lectured by a twitch streaming only fans girl because she got into Harvard and he didn't.
— bumbadum (@bumbadum14) April 1, 2025
These…
18 years old
— Zach Yadegari (@zach_yadegari) April 1, 2025
34 ACT
4.0 GPA
$30M ARR biz
Stanford ❌
MIT ❌
Harvard ❌
Yale ❌
WashU ❌
Columbia ❌
UPenn ❌
Princeton ❌
Duke ❌
USC ❌
Georgia Tech ✅
UVA ❌
NYU ❌
UT ✅
Vanderbilt ❌
Brown ❌
UMiami ✅
Cornell ❌
The woman in question (I think)
This guy is smart, will be successful, and I wish him the best of luck, but I wish more people who go viral for getting rejected from top colleges would post their personal statement because it becomes immediately obvious why they were rejected. This is an educational resource. https://t.co/GpgPRMj7mR
— giggly ♡ (@xgigglypuff) April 1, 2025
Whenever I see students with good grades but lots of college rejections, my first thought is a bad personal essay. As predicted, this guy's essay was kind of a disaster.
— Kareem Carr, Statistics Person (@kareem_carr) April 1, 2025
Since I did get into Harvard, I'll give my two cents on the essay: https://t.co/eyiYF7axk5
Very high standards from Stanford btw:
I submitted this answer in my @Stanford application, & yesterday, I was admitted...#BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/R5YxM77bWL
— Ziad Ahmed (@ziadahmed) April 1, 2017
This is the college admissions "crisis" in a nutshell. A million people with good grades that think they're Steve Jobs write the worst admissions essays ever and are surprised Harvard said no. https://t.co/TUVjRBOfXs
— Goobermensch (@Not_Cool_Yet) April 1, 2025
.webp?h=11 "Nuzzles, pounces on you, UwU, you're so warm!..")
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does his app really make so much
https://www.calai.app/
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Computer, how much protein in baby?
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The value of a tech company matters much less on how much money they actually make and much more on how much they can convince investors that they'll eventually be able to make money.
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Saying that getting investor money should be a ticket to an elite university is just a silly thing to do because it's measures absolutely nothing about academics
"Wow dude congrats you successfully fundraised your web app. You're now worthy to stand side by side amongst our Nobel prize winners and partake in cutting edge PhD level research"
He'd have a better shot if he was neurodivergentally passionate about his field instead of signaling so hard about doing it for the money. These places want neurodivergents!!
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In fact it's an indictment if the university system. Someone who's proven themselves to be economically valuable gets rejected by elite universities because those institutions are just signals of elite class, and mainly exist to suck money out of the taxpayer to inflate their own egos
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