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Teen with 4.0 GPA who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 top universities
Zach Yadegari, the high school teen co-founder of Cal AI, is being hammered with comments on X after he revealed that out of 18 top colleges he applied
He and his co-founder had already spent a summer at a hacker house in San Francisco building their prototype, and he thought he would become a classic (if not cliche) college-dropout tech entrepreneur. His penultimate paragraph declared, “Through college, I will contribute to and grow within that larger whole, empowering me to leave an even greater lasting, positive impact on the world.” Despite the grades, test scores and real-world achievements, he was rejected by Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Duke, and Cornell, among others.
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