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, Stanley Zhong, 18, was rejected by 16 out of the 18 colleges he applied to. https://abc7news.com/stanley-zhong-college-rejected-teen-full-time-job-google-admissions/13890332/
“Stanley's father Nan Zhong is an engineer and introduced coding to Stanley at a young age. Nan works at Google as a software engineering manager. "Google has a tightly controlled interview process. I had no way to find out who the interviewers would be," Zhong said” Yea right..
I’m not surprised. He applied to some competitive schools.
Cal poly??!
Yes cal poly slo is a competitive engineering school
He got rejected for being Asian
What a bs
If you want to get into a top US university, you don’t just have to be smart, you also have to be interesting. Nothing about this guys application made him unique or stand out. Tons of students apply with similar achievements. These colleges don’t want well rounded kids, they want a well rounded class.
You also have to check a box.
That box is called “be interesting and have a personality”
My best guess, and this was alluded to above — the problem is that he went to Gunn High School, which had 47 national merit semifinalists. If your high school has 47 semifinalists, how are you going to get a good recommendation? How are you going to stand out? Why should a college admit you if they already admit 30 kids FROM THAT SAME HIGH SCHOOL every year? I keep seeing people on Blind — people who know nothing about college admissions and who probably never applied to an undergraduate college in the US — post on Blind “buy that house — it is in Cupertino schools” “this is a good school because the high school is a 10/10” The problem is if the school is a 10/10 there are going to be 50+ national merit semifinalists every year. When picking a house and high school, you want a high school that is good enough to not have gangs, but mediocre enough that your child will stand out. Pick a school with 0-5 national merit semifinalists. Don’t complain if you buy in Cupertino and years later, your child is Stanley Zhang’ed.
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Isn’t this basically the scenario that just killed affirmative action? Schools discriminate against asians because asians are overrepresented on academic metrics.
He was rejected by many UC schools — even Cal State schools — which even before the SCOTUS decision didn’t use race. However, California schools no longer accept standardized test scores, which i think is politically motivated and probably was motivated in part for race-related reasons. And that probably affected him a lot.