Man who was rejected by 1500 employers becomes youngest professor in three US universities

Eli Joseph, a remarkable 28-year-old man, has made history as the youngest professor to teach at three major universities in the United States of America, despite receiving rejection 1500 times.

Dr Eli Joseph is an American professor based in Brooklyn, New York. He currently lectures at three prestigious universities at the same time: Columbia, New York University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr Joseph’s success story was not an easy one; he was reportedly turned down by over 1,500 companies, 30 institutions, and 75 scholarship foundations during his life.

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He received rejections from prestigious universities such as Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Dartmouth University, and Brown University.

In 2012, he received a rejection letter from Columbia University, but he persisted with his strong determination and never gave up.

He is now an associate faculty member in the Applied Analytics programme at Columbia University School of Professional Studies.

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He was also rejected by New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering in 2016, although he now teaches graduate students at NYU’s School of Professional Studies.

Dr Joseph has also received multiple rejection letters from financial, technology, and management consulting businesses such as JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Google, Amazon, Facebook, BCG, McKinsey, Deloitte, and Bain.

Despite numerous rejections from both institutions and enterprises, he overcame emotional and professional obstacles.