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Fortune
Fortune
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Bill Gates says he got into every Ivy League school he applied to, but tailored a different 'persona' for each application: 'Each was a performance'

A young Bill Gates caught on camera (Credit: Doug Wilson / CORBIS / Corbis—Getty Images)
  • Bill Gates applied to three different Ivy League colleges and experimented with his persona, emphasizing different experiences and career goals for each one. The Microsoft cofounder would later famously drop out of Harvard to create one of the world's biggest companies.

While Bill Gates famously dropped out of college to cofound one of the biggest companies in the world, it turns out when he was applying, he was just as meticulous as the rest of us. 

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