Zach Yadegari, Teenci co -founder at Cal Ai High SchoolHe hits with comments on x After discovering that of the 18 best colleges he applied for, he refused 15.
Yadegari says he received 4.0 GPA and scored 34 result on his act (above 31 is considered the best result). His problem is, he is sure – as tens of thousands of commentators on X – was his essay.
As Techcrunch reported last month, Yadegari is the co -founder of the Caloria Calori AI -AI app co -founder, which Yadegari says he generates millions of revenues, on an annual trail for a repeat revenue of $ 30 million. Although we cannot check that the revenue requirements, the app stores say that the application has been taken over more than one million times and that there are tens of thousands of positive reviews.
Cal Ai was actually his second success. He sold his previous web game company for $ 100,000, he said.
Yadegari did not intend to go to college. He and his co -founder have already spent the summer at the Hacker house in San Francisco, building their prototype, and he thought he would become a classic (if not a cliché) a technological entrepreneur from a college.
But the time in the Hacker’s house taught him that if he did not go to college, he would leave a large part of his life of young adults. So he opted for higher schools.
And his essay said about just as much.
He published the whole thing on X. He has repeatedly said that he had never planned to go to college and documented his experience of making more money as a coder self -taught. He wrote that VCs and mentors reinforced the idea that he did not need college.
Until he did not have Epiphany: “In my rejection of the collegial path, I unknowingly committed to another framework of expectations: the founder of the archetypal abandonment. Instead of a school teacher, these are VC -II mentors managed to the direction that was still not mine,” he wrote.
College would help him to “raise the job I have always done,” so now he wanted to learn from people, not just books and YouTube.
His penultimate passage stated: “Through college, I will contribute and grow in this greater entity, empowering me to leave an even greater, positive impact on the world.”
Despite the grades, test results and achievements in the real world, he was rejected by Stanford, myth, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Duke and Cornell. However, it was accepted by Georgia Tech, the University of Texas and the University of Miami.
Still, his tweet about many rejections became viral, with over 22 million views, more than 2,700 retweets and more than 3,600 comments.
Many comments have blown the essay as “arrogant”, By saying that was a problem.
Others as a problem exploded a college acceptance system (with All the usual criticism there).
Were probably more terrible comments those who show They are looking for candidates who look thirsty for education and are likely to graduate. His essay read as if he could barely make sure he was attending.
Even y Combinator’s Garry Tan Libra on xNot with feedback for Yadegar, but with his own “confession” that he was also widely rejected on his list on his college applications “because I wrote my essays after reading the” Fountainhead “ayn Rand. And it seems that the philosophy of objectivism is permanently disputed theme, it seems.
Yadegari tells Techcronych that he is still revealing his next steps, but he was fascinated by the answer given to his x post. “It was interesting to see many different perspectives, but in the end, I will never know exactly why I was rejected. At the end of the day, when I wrote my essay, I hoped that he would take me to get a reception as authentic because that’s all I ever want to be.”
Yadegari also says that he realized that business success was not the greatest achievement of his 17-year life. Getting some of this, “I realized that life was not just in financial success,” he said, “it is about connections and to be part of a larger community.”