Ivy League Rejects Millionaire Teen with 4 0 GPA for 1 Stupid Reason
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How not to get into an Ivy League school? Yeah, you see all the time, wealthy parents pay a great deal of money, a great deal of money to get their kids into Ivy League schools. know, obscure sports is a great way, you know, you get your, you know, be a great lacrosse player or fencer or on the crew, know, might be able to ease the way in there. I guess…
One way you’re not going to get into an Ivy League school is to be an enormously successful high school student with a 4.0 GPA and 34 on your ACT’s. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get that. There’s no way, no way you’re getting it. I’m not making this up. Kid from Long Island. Kid from Long Island is Zach Yatagarri.
4.0 GPM, sorry, 34 ACT score. He was rejected. Rejected from 15, 15 of the 18 schools he applied to, including every Ivy League institution. Well, it’s very competitive, Mr. Markowski, and you’ve got to make sure that you’ve got all sorts of other things that you do and.
extracurricular activities and all sorts of stuff. Okay.
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He developed an app, this kid is 18 years old, developed an app that basically you use your phone and you take a picture of food and it tells you what the calories are. $30 million.
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Do the spotters in high school.
Did this while he was in high school. You know it sounds like to me? It sounds like maybe he’s, know, they were frightened of this kid because what the hell they gonna teach him? Well, we’re gonna teach him in business classes. I have a son in business classes and, you know, some of the stuff that his professors…
tell him and he, you I have conversations all the time. I said, you know, Stephen’s all BS. They don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. That’s why they’re teaching class there. It’s reality. Again, he committed to the University of Miami. But I want you to think about that. 4.0 GPA, 34 ACT, develops an app while he’s in school and makes 30 million dollars and wasn’t good enough. Wasn’t good enough. Again,
You know, I don’t know, maybe he wasn’t woke enough. I think it’s, I said, I think that they figured that, you know what, we can’t have somebody, we can’t have somebody this bright at our school, upsetting the apple cart. Watchdogonwallstreet.com.
