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- Cofounder of AI company Exa Jeffrey Wang wrote his college application essay about McDonald's.
- The Harvard graduate said he wanted to make his essay authentic and entertaining.
- Wang said he got into Yale, Harvard, and Princeton using the same essay.
When Jeffrey Wang was a high-school senior in Connecticut in 2014, he wasn't sure what to write about for his college application essay.
He thought about writing his essay on a subject he enjoyed at school or a project he'd worked on. But he knew others would have the same idea.