Teen with 4.0 GPA who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 universities

It's just because he is white male looking isn't it, academia hates white men. Why are we over thinking this?

Personal statements like job apps are about bragging which is hard for anyone to do, the comments putting this down are piss poor.

Otherwise the comments are he shouldn't have written it as a normal 17 year old, he should have paid an experienced adult to faked it like everyone else. They could have helped him fake the "diversity" universities chase.

If universities wanted true diversity he is it. He's already worthy to have on their alumni which for the adults in the room, when all information is on your phone universities are the mostly connections you create . i.e. Gates, Wozniak , Jobs

Nah, as a parent of a high achieving daughter who had higher GPA/ACT scores than this teen, I can tell you the issue is that a high percentage of students who apply to places like Stanford and MIT also have perfect scores. A 4.0 GPA 34 ACT doesn't mean much anymore. My daughter was waitlisted or rejected by every Ivy+ engineering dept she applied to. (Granted she might have gotten in had she applied for general admission; applying directly to Engineering is doubly-hard. She ultimately accepted a full scholarship at a good "second tier" engineering school and graduated debt free, which is maybe better.) There's just so much competition these days, especially from foreign students who have spent most of their lives perfecting test taking and spend considerable money on tutoring for their applications/essays as well.