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NY Teen Tech Star Rejected By All 8 Ivies Chooses His College–After Building $30M App Empire
He built a $30 million app, launched a website with 5 million users, and still got rejected by all eight Ivy League schools.
Now, 18-year-old Long Island resident Zach Yadegari, of Roslyn, is taking his talents to South Florida.
Despite a perfect 4.0 GPA, a 34 ACT score, and a resume that includes founding a wildly successful calorie tracking app, Yadegari says he was denied admission to 15 of the 18 colleges he applied to—including every Ivy League school, plus Stanford, MIT, Duke, and NYU.
“I didn’t expect to be accepted to all of these colleges,” he told The New York Post in April. “Ho…
Newly Minted Millionaire! $4.3M Lottery Jackpot Won By Virginia Man As He Sat On The Couch
It started as a quiet evening at home, but it turned into a life-changing moment for one Prince William County man who struck gold—or rather, $4.3 million—playing a Virginia Lottery game online.
Manoj Chhetry, feeling a little bored, decided to pass the time by trying his luck with the Merry Money Mania game on the Virginia Lottery website.
By the time he finished, he was staring at a jackpot worth $4,303,499.
Merry Christmas, indeed.
“I didn’t know what happened!” Chhetry told Lottery officials, describing the surreal moment.
Thinking it was too good to be true, he called his wife…
