Sergey Brin

President of Alphabet, also the co-founder of Google wanted to attend MIT for graduation but his application was declined. He fetched up getting a master's degree at Stanford University, and that is where he met Larry Page, the Founder. The two would soon change the Internet.

Tom Hanks

In 1974, Hanks had sent his SAT scores to MIT and Villanova, "knowing such fine schools would never accept a student like me but hoping they'd toss some car stickers my way for taking a shot," he wrote in The New York Times. Hanks instead attended Chabot, a two-year community college in Hayward, California. "That place made me what I am today," he wrote. Hanks later attended Sacramento State.

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