US EditionWhiz kid offered Google job out of high school but got rejected by 16 colleges —now he’s suing for discrimination
- Stanley Zhong, a high-achieving student from Palo Alto, was rejected by 16 colleges despite a 4.42 GPA and a 1590 SAT score, and accepted only by the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Maryland.
- His father, Nan Zhong, believes Stanley experienced racial discrimination during the admissions process and has filed lawsuits against several universities.
- The lawsuits claim these universities engaged in racially discriminatory admissions practices that disadvantage highly qualified Asian-American applicants.
- Nan Zhong hopes to raise awareness of the challenges faced by Asian-American students in college admissions and seeks to help other families in similar situations.
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This 19-Year-Old, Hired By Google, Was Rejected By 16 Top Colleges. His Family Is Moving Court Against Them
Stanley Zhong, who intended to study computer science, was turned down by 16 out of 18 colleges he applied to including top institutions like MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon.
Asian American with 4.42 GPA, 1590 SAT, and a job offer from Google is suing after 16 colleges rejected him · American Wire News
An Asian American man who was rejected from over a dozen top colleges despite his stellar test scores is now suing for discrimination. Stanley Zhong wasn’t a typical high school student. He was one of only 2,000 students nationwide who scored a 1590 or higher on the SATs. His GPA, meanwhile, was a whopping 4.42. But there’s more. While in high school, he started his own e-document signature platform called RabbitSign. And before he even graduate…
Whiz kid offered Google job out of high school but got rejected by 16 colleges —now he’s suing for discrimination
Stanley Zhong was a near perfect college applicant. By anyone’s expectations, he should have been Harvard or MIT bound. And yet Stanley was met with disappointment after disappointment when Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell University, Georgia Tech, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Washington and University of Wisconsin all rejected him.
Rejected by 16 colleges, accepted by Google: Tech prodigy sues US university for racial bias
A 19-year-old tech prodigy, Stanley Zhong, and his father, Nan Zhong, are suing 16 US universities after Stanley was rejected despite his exceptional academic achievements. Zhong, who holds a 3.97 GPA and a 4.42 weighted GPA, scored an outstanding 1590 on the SAT, placing him among the top 2,000 test-takers out of over two million annually. At just 13, he had already received an offer to work a Ph.D. job at Google, and by October 2023, he had jo…
Crusading dad sues to "stop" UC from "discriminating" – AsAmNews
By Randall Yip, Executive Editor “This is for myself because they really pissed me off.” That’s how Nan Zhong explained why he’s suing the University of California after five UC […] The post Crusading dad sues to “stop” UC from “discriminating” appeared first on AsAmNews.
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