Ivy League Rejects Millionaire Teen with 4.0 GPA for 1 Stupid Reason

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Chris sounds off on the absurdity of elite college admissions after a high-achieving Long Island student with a 4.0 GPA, 34 ACT score, and a $30 million app under his belt was rejected from every Ivy League school. Is academic excellence and entrepreneurial success no longer enough? Markowski argues that the admissions game is rigged — not against the underqualified, but against the uncontrollable. If you’re too independent, too successful, or maybe just not “woke” enough, you’re a threat to the system. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
How not to get into an IVY League school. Yeah.
You see, all the time, wealthy parents pay a great,
great deal of money, a great deal of money to
get their kids into IVY League schools. You know, Obscure
sports is a great way. Yeah, get your you know,

(00:37):
be a great lacrosse player or fencer or on the crew.
You know you might be able to ease away in there.
I guess one way you're not going to get into
an IVY League school is to be an enormously successful
high school student with a four point oh GPA and

(00:58):
thirty four on your acts. Yeah, yeah, you get that.
There's no way, no way you're getting in. I'm not
making this up. Kid from Long Island. Kid from Long
Island is zach Yadagari four point zero GPM, sorry, thirty
four act score. He was rejected rejected from fifteen fifteen

(01:26):
of the eighteen schools he applied to, including every IVY
League institution. Well, it's very competitive, mister Markowski, and you've
got to make sure that you've got all sorts of
other things that you do and extra curricular activities and
all sorts of stuff. Okay, he developed an app. This

(01:55):
kid's eighteen years old. Developed an app that you basically
you use your phone and you take a picture of
food and it tells you what the calories are. Thirty
million dollar at did this while I was in high school?

(02:18):
Did this while he was in high school? You know,
it sounds like to me, it sounds like maybe he's
you know, they were frightened of this kid because what
the hell they're going to teach him. Well, we're going
to teach him in business classes. Yeah, I have a
son in business classes, and you know, there's some of

(02:42):
the stuff that his professors tell him, and he you know,
I have conversations all the time. I said, you know,
Steven's all bs. They don't know what the hell they're
talking about. That's why they're teaching class. There, it's reality
row He again, he committed to the University of Miami.
But I want you to think about that four point
zero gpa thirty four act develops an app while he's

(03:08):
in school and makes thirty million dollars and wasn't good enough.
Wasn't good enough again? You know, I don't know. Maybe
he wasn't woke enough. I think it's like I said,
I think that they figured that, you know what, we
can't have somebody. We can't have somebody this bright at
our school, upsetting the apple Cart watchdog on Wallstreet dot

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