“I am stunned that four colleges rejected you,” Camerota exclaimed. “What kind of dumbass colleges don’t want you?! You have taken the country by storm. How do you explain this? Did they reject you before the Parkland massacre?”

Hogg explained that the rejection letters came “two weeks ago,” after the Parkland massacre at his high school, though he wasn’t particularly concerned about it.

“It goes to show that regardless of whether you get into college, you can still change the world,” Hogg said. “The hardest part is just believing you can and continuing that effort to change the world because you eventually will.”