Case study · Teen Programs
Three teens.
Three stories.
Meet Beamlak, Jiewen, and Anthony. One earned a full ride to Harvard after an early decision rejection. One built a real AI platform and earned Columbia. One won the QuestBridge scholarship his own school could not help him apply for. Over $1 million in scholarships and acceptances across Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Boston University.
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Three teens. Three different starting points.
Beamlak T.
Rejected early decision. Accepted to Harvard and Princeton. Full ride to Harvard.
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Jiewen H.
Helped build Naomi-AI. Earned a full scholarship to Columbia plus equity in the new entity.
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Anthony T.
Won the QuestBridge National College Match his own school could not help him apply for.
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Harvard '29
Beamlak T.
Rejected early decision. Accepted to Harvard and Princeton. Full ride to Harvard.
A teenager who had done everything right. The grades, the scores, the activities, the early decision application to her top school. And then the rejection email.
Her family came to 24/7 Teach extremely worried that she would not get accepted to a good school. By the time they reached out, regular decision deadlines were closing in. There was no time left for a careful path. There was only the work, and whether she would do it.
In the words of Justice Jones, Founder & CEO of 24/7 Teach
I had the opportunity to work with a young lady who came to us after she was rejected from one of her top schools, which she applied for early decision. Her family was extremely worried that she would not get accepted to a good school.
Justice Jones, 24/7 Teach College Admissions Open House
They came to us extremely stressed, and we worked tirelessly with great intensity and intention. We put in over 70 hours of work together within a month and completed all her applications for normal decisions.
A few weeks later, I checked in with her to see how she was doing. She was distraught. She had been waitlisted at some of her top schools. She was accepted to a safety school and given good money at a school she didn't want to attend.
Based on our work together, I was confident the school she wanted to attend would accept her. I shared with her that her acceptance to Princeton was coming. I had faith in her, and I had faith in the work that we do here at 24/7 Teach.
She got into both Princeton AND Harvard. Both schools combined have an average acceptance rate of 3.4 percent, meaning they only accept 3.4 students out of every 100 applicants.
Harvard offered a full ride covering all expenses, travel and housing included. Over four years, that is $333,052 her family will not be paying.
Beamlak's family thought "applied to a good school" was the goal. Then she got a Harvard full ride.
Columbia '31
Jiewen H.
Looking for somewhere to build, somewhere to belong. Found both.
A teenager with real technical curiosity who was tired of school assignments that ended up in a folder no one would open again. He wanted an opportunity to learn something that mattered, and a place to showcase what he could build.
What he found was a mission he believed in. 24/7 Teach exists to close the education gap through technology, and Jiewen connected to that work in a way that went deeper than career interest. He chose 24/7 before 24/7 chose him.
What he built
Andrew Mulert and Jiewen Huang, for your tireless efforts in learning and supporting the development of Naomi-Math and Naomi-ELA.
Justice Jones, 24/7 Teach internal announcement, December 25, 2025
Jiewen joined Career Skills with technical curiosity and limited working software experience. He left having helped architect and ship the ELA (English Language Arts) side of Naomi-AI, our AI-powered learning platform now deployed in NYC middle schools.
Naomi-AI ELA is not a school project. It is a live product with district partners, students using it daily, and standards-aligned content that has to clear FERPA, COPPA, and parental visibility requirements before it ever touches a classroom. Jiewen wrote production code that goes through that gauntlet every release.
What Columbia saw
When Jiewen submitted his Columbia application, he did not have to manufacture a story. He had a real product, a real role on the founding team, and ownership recognition in writing. His personal statement was about code he could point to and students he could name.
Columbia offered a full scholarship.
Admissions committees at Ivy-tier schools see thousands of applications from teens who started a club or tutored kids. A teen who helped found a real education technology company, with shipped product and equity in his name, is a fundamentally different file.
QuestBridge · BU '29
Anthony T.
Won QuestBridge. Matched to Boston University. Full four-year ride.
A teenager with the grades, the drive, and the profile to be exactly the kind of student QuestBridge exists to find. QuestBridge is the National College Match, a four-year full scholarship program for high-achieving students from lower-income families, with binding admission to one of fifty-plus partner colleges.
The problem: his school could not help him with the application. The QuestBridge process is rigorous, deadline-driven, and full of small details that require someone who has done it before. Anthony's school did not have that person. So he went looking for someone who did.
What 24/7 did
To Cherall Cabrera-Sangalang and Anthony, thank you for leading from behind the scenes. You both embody what it means to build a legacy without needing the spotlight. The future iterations of 24/7 rest on the foundation you continue to strengthen every day.
Justice Jones, 24/7 Teach internal announcement, November 27, 2025
24/7 Teach guided Anthony through the entire QuestBridge application process from the first form to the final match. Essay strategy. Letter coordination. Financial aid documentation. The hundred small decisions that determine whether a strong applicant becomes a matched applicant.
In parallel, Anthony was doing real work as an original developer on the Naomi-AI team, leading from behind the scenes.
What he won
Anthony was matched to Boston University through the QuestBridge National College Match. Pre-admission. Binding. A full four-year scholarship covering tuition, room, board, and books.
Over four years, that is $333,040 his family will not be paying. The largest scholarship 24/7 Teach has ever helped a student secure.
A teenager whose school could not help him won a National College Match. The system was not set up for him. He found a way around the system.
What these three have in common
Three different starting points. One pattern that keeps showing up.
Each one came in with a specific need.
Beamlak needed someone to fight for her after an early decision rejection. Jiewen needed a place to build something real. Anthony needed help applying for a scholarship his school could not support. None of them got a generic program. They got the program that matched their need.
The work was real, so the applications were too.
Jiewen and Anthony had shipped product. Beamlak had her actual story, fought for and written carefully. There was nothing for an admissions officer to discount.
We met the urgency the moment demanded.
Beamlak got 70 hours of intensive coaching in one month after her rejection. Anthony got an entire QuestBridge application guided end to end. Jiewen got months of mentored production work. Each timeline was different because each student's need was different.
Career and college applications were treated as one strategy, not two.
Two of these three stacked Career Skills and College Counseling at the same time. Real work made the applications stronger. Application discipline made the work visible to admissions committees. The integration is the point.
We did not chase volume.
167 students total across the entire 24/7 Teach teen program. We would rather serve fewer teens deeply than ship a class of 500 with shallow outcomes. That is why these three students are not edge cases. They are what the program is built to produce.
If you're a parent reading this
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The programs
The two programs that produced these outcomes.
24/7 Teach runs three teen pillars. The two that produced these three outcomes work alone, and compound when stacked together.
Build the work. Ship it.
Six career tracks. Real client projects. Paid internships at the Advanced tier. Jiewen and Anthony built here.
- AI Developer, AI Workflow, Cybersecurity, AI Marketing, Real Estate, Entrepreneur
- 10-month apprenticeship at Advanced with 96% job placement guarantee
- Portfolio that doubles as college application essay material
Win the application. Win the aid.
Strategy, essays, applications, financial aid. The honest read most school counselors are too busy to give. Beamlak's Harvard full ride was won here. Anthony's QuestBridge application was guided start to finish.
- Three grade-aware tracks for 9th–10th, 11th, and 12th
- Concierge admissions at Advanced with unlimited sessions
- Guided QuestBridge applications included
Our promise to parents
Three guarantees, written in plain English.
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By the numbers
Across the broader 24/7 Teach teen program.
Acceptance list (partial)
Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Brown, Penn, Cornell, NYU, Boston University, Georgetown, Duke, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Howard, Spelman, Morehouse, Hampton, FAMU, UCLA, Virginia Tech, University of Florida, DePaul.
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