"Zach Yadegari, 18, never wanted to go to college. After all, why would he need to? Cal AI, the calorie-tracking app he co-founded, blossomed into a $30 million empire before he could even submit applications, so it's safe to say he was doing just fine. "After Cal AI started taking off, it confirmed it. I was like, 'Okay, clearly, you don't need college to be successful.' My parents finally saw the vision," Yadergari previously told"
"The coding prodigy is a longtime entrepreneur, teaching himself to code when he was just 7 years old. By age 10, he was charging $30 an hour for lessons to people who wanted to learn the skill. By the time high school arrived, he had created a gaming website called "Totally Science", which enabled his peers to play unblocked video games online with no download or registration required. The venture brought in his first six figures."
"Yadeguri eventually had a change of heart about college, and decided to apply. But despite having an extensive entrepreneurial background, a 4.0 GPA, and a 34 score on the ACTs, he was rejected from the Ivy League, including Stanford, which Yadegari said "is known for start-ups." Yadegari said the only schools that accepted him were Georgia Tech, University of Miami and University of Texas. He decided to attend the University of Miami, not for the prestige, but for the atmosphere."
Zach Yadegari founded Cal AI, a calorie-tracking app that grew into a $30 million business before he applied to college. He learned to code at age seven, tutored others by age ten, and launched a gaming website in high school that generated his first six-figure earnings. He later applied to colleges with a 4.0 GPA and a 34 ACT but was rejected by Ivy League schools including Stanford. He accepted admission to the University of Miami for its social atmosphere, lives with fellow young entrepreneurs, and dropped out of the business school while remaining undeclared.
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