https://abc7news.com/amp/stanley-zhong-college-rejected-teen-full-time-job-google-admissions/13890332/ “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” Is there more to the story? You might pick on his extra curricular and essays but these types of students tend to usually put good effort on others as well. I know CS is the most competitive major but this seems weird.
Schools don’t really matter if you want to work in tech. It ofc matters when you are involved in research and stuff. But for jobs like SWE etc, not really.
It matters if you want to do highly specialized work like research/ML scientist at OpenAI or other highly sought places
But even then only for the first 3-5 years of your career. It’s more experience based after.
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Where does soy boy fit?
Also fck boi!
looks like a blessing in disguise, FAANG salary without the student loan debt
Or 4 years wasted on a degree. Most jobs these days say “X degree or equivalent work experience”
Unfortunately his last name says it all. I didn't have to click on the link at all.
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the reason he didn't get into a good school is because there are thousands of students just like him. if he were a poor asian-urm like vietnamese then he would have been accepted. also, there are thousands of kids who are also Chinese, come straight from China, have similar SAT, GPA, probably better and less hallow extra curriculars, better personalities, and would definitely contribute more to campus than him. It's a matter of supply and demand. The Chinese students I met where way more pleasant and interesting than the Asian American ones.
Is this really true? Are college admissions really this competitive now?
If you’re asian
If you want a name brand school, yes. Competition has always been fierce for those though. If you’re a normie who just wants to get an education, it’s still easy to get in. But the dude in the article clearly isn’t trying to get an education. He seems driven and able to teach himself pretty well to get to this point. He just wants the name brand to attach to his resume. Not a bad strategy in the job market but don’t take his experience as normal.
PR stunts
He applied to highly competitive schools with highly competitive CS programs. Had he applied to more obscure school, I’m sure they would happily take him, possibly with scholarships and grants.
Do you consider Cal Poly, UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego to belong to highly competitive CS program category?
Copy pasting list. 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. Acceptances: University of Texas and University of Maryland. Yeah I guess 9-10 of those are like Ivys or top 5 schools? Didn’t realize UCs were that hard to get into even for California residents. The two he did get accepted to are still in the top ten schools for CS undergrad to be fair
Damn that is terrible (affirmitive action/wokeness). UMD: Coll Park and UT Austin (the two he did get accepted too) are really good too he'd fit right in if he choose to go now or in a year if he defers. Shout out to guy though he'll be making it big while everyone accepted from those 16 schools will be dragging their heels looking for a job when they graduate when AI is going to outsource majority of work and major job cuts. Whoever does get hired he will be there superior for sure by that time. All things considered if you stop and look at it. He might have just turned getting hired by a FAANG into like getting drafted right out of high school by the NBA; like back in the day (Kobe, LeBron, T-Mac , etc). This could be a game changer for a lot of super intelligent students who already know core fundamental Compsci Programming from AP Comp Sci classes and such. AWESOME! ✌️
Good point. I don’t see a difference from hiring a boot camp coder at minimum. Some of the high school students have better coding resume than the top college graduates. Perhaps colleges are out dated and we learn more by working at a job than traditional colleges. At younger age, that would accelerate the learnings.
California banned affirmative action for public schools in 1996. This has nothing to do with race. California no longer look at test scores. His gpa was middle 50% for Cal Poly.
BLM baby
Bureau of Land Management?
Something like that