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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Amber Raiken

18-year-old startup founder’s college essay goes viral after being rejected from Harvard and Yale

An 18-year-old startup founder shared his college admission essay after being rejected from some of the top schools in the country — and many readers were not impressed.

Zach Yadegari shared a post to X/Twitter on Monday about a slew of colleges he was rejected from. This included schools with notoriously low acceptance rates like Stanford University, Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Cornell University, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania.

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