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LI teen tech whiz Zach Yadegari — creator of $30M health app — makes college decision after all 8 Ivy League schools rejected him
May 8, 2025
This Long Island genius is taking his talents to Florida.
Tech whiz Zach Yadegari, 18, who boasts an impressive 4.0 GPA and 34 ACT score, committed to the University of Miami on April 30 after he was rejected from 15 of the 18 schools he applied to, including every Ivy League institution.
“Update: I officially committed to Umiami,” Yadegari wrote to his 45,300 followers on X.
Yadegari, of Rosslyn, NY, is a tech developer and has made over $30 million before setting foot on a college campus due to his AI-calorie counting app, Cal AI.
The program, which launched in 2024, allows users to track their daily calorie intake by snapping photos of their food.
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The future Hurricane experienced a turbulent application process despite massive success with his grades and business venture.
In March, Yadegari revealed that he received rejection letters from all eight Ivy League schools plus MIT, Stanford, Washington University, Duke, USC, the University of Virginia, NYU and Vanderbilt.
According to the tech whiz, he may not have fit into what universities were looking for in potential students.
“I think that college admissions tries to place students in this rubric, a very tight box, that makes it difficult for students with achievements outside of school, like an entrepreneur, to really stand out,” he told Fox News.
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