Shaan Patel, a 27-year-old entrepreneur from Las Vegas, had an envy-inducing high school résumé.

He was the valedictorian of his class, was crowned homecoming king, and even shook President George W. Bush’s hand in 2007 as a White House Presidential Scholar, a program that recognizes two academically gifted students from each state.

He also scored a perfect 2400 on his SAT.

And yet, every Ivy League school that he applied to rejected him: Harvard, Princeton, and a special medical program at Brown. Patel also received a rejection from Stanford.

Rather than allowing these rejections to discourage him, Patel used them as motivation and parlayed read more >>>

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com