Stanley Zhong, 18, is a 2023 graduate of Gunn High School in Palo Alto:
Despite earning 3.97 unweighted and 4.42 weighted GPA, scoring 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT’s and founding his own e-signing startup RabbitSign in sophomore year, he was rejected by 16 out of the 18 colleges he applied to.
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He was denied by: MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cornell University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Caltech, University of Washington and University of Wisconsin.
His only acceptances: University of Texas and University of Maryland.
He won’t be going to either of those:
Zhong just started his Google job this week,
In racist, leftist America, Asians are not welcome.
Note how the journalist tries to pin this to the Supreme Court decision that precisely says racial admissions are not allowed.
I suspected there were stories out there like this; counterparts to the Black-trans-indeterminate-sex person getting into every Ivy League.
Speaks to several things. Besides the war on credentials in favor of sex and genetically distinct group preferences; and the flood-the-zone credential inflation, schools have a bias for in-state people, so I can see the out of state schools passing on him for the usual reasons. I would expect his home state schools to take him, but evidently California’s war on it’s citizens is still ramping up.
Rather strange that we hear about shortages of skilled workers, but the competition for CS slots in college is so competitive they pass over guys like this. WTF? So this guy goes straight into industry. New plan for a new world, I suppose.