Together with GPA, who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 best universities

Zach yadegari, Co-founder of Cal AI High SchoolHammer is With the comments of X After he revealed that he was rejected by 15 of his 18 best colleges.

Yadegar says he received 4.0 GPA and nailed 34 points with his act (31 is considered to be the best score). His problem, he is sure, because tens of thousands of commentators are in X, his essay.

According to TechCrunch last month, Yadegari is the co-founder of Virus AI Calorie App Cal AI AI, which says it raises annual income. Although we cannot confirm that income requirements, app stores say that the program has been downloaded more than 1 million times and has tens of thousands of positive reviews.

Cal AI was actually her second success. He said he sold his previous Web game company for $ 100,000.

Yadegar did not plan to go to college. He and his co-founder have already spent summer on the Hacker House of San Francisco, building their prototype, and he believed that he would become a classic (if not cliché) college-drop technological entrepreneur.

But the hacker’s house taught him to teach him that if he did not go to college, he will continue to have most of his great adult life. So he chose more to school.

And his essence has said a lot.

He placed the whole thing in X. This has repeatedly said how he never planned to go to college and document his experience with his experience with more money. He wrote how VCS and educators strengthen the idea that he did not need college.

All before he had a denomination, I became imbued with another framework for his collegial road.

The college will help him “raise the work I have always done,” he now wanted to learn from people, not only books and YouTube.

His penultimate paragraph announced.

Despite classes, test units and real world’s achievements, he came to Stanford, Ai, Harvard, Colombia, Princeton, Duke and Cornel. However, he received the University of Texas and the University of Miami.

His tweet on many refuses would have visited the virus, more than 22 million views, more than 2,700 rubber and above 3,600 comments.

Many of the comments blew the essay as “arrogant.” saying that it was the problemA number

Others exploded college acceptance system as a problem (with) All the usual criticisms there).

Were probably more insightful comments They celebrate It’s out of colleges looking for candidates who seem thirsty for education and are likely to end. His hint, as he read, was hardly convinced.

Even Y combinator barley tan weighed in xNot feedback for Yadegar, but with his “confession” that he was also widely rejected to his college plans, “as I rewrite my essays, the philosophy of” much “. (Tan, however, entered and attended Stanford).

Yadegar tells TechCrunch that he still finds his next steps, but admired his X post. “It was interesting to see many different prospects, but in the end I never know why I was rejected. At the end of the day, when I wrote my essay because I was all I wanted to be.

Yadegar also says he realizes that business success is not the greatest achievement of his 17-year life. By gaining a few of them.