Asian Teen With Nearly Perfect Test Scores Rejected by 16 Colleges Now Suing for Discrimination
“what we’re trying to get out of this is a fair treatment of Asian applicants going forward, including my other kids and my future grandkids”
This kid is so smart that he has been hired by Google for a position that normally requires a PhD.
The College Fix reports:
Teen hired by Google was rejected by 16 colleges. Now he’s suing for discrimination.
He had a 4.42 GPA and a near perfect 1590 score on his SAT. Yet he was rejected by 16 colleges he applied to. Now he’s suing for discrimination.
Stanley Zhong, who ended up taking a PhD-level software engineer job at Google out of high school, is fighting for other Asian-American students who might face the same dilemma — a kid who is perfect on paper but rejected due to his ethnicity.
At least, that’s what the Zhong family hopes to prove in court.
“The story is bigger than Stanley himself,” his father, Nan Zhong, recently told ABC Bay Area News. “And what we’re trying to get out of this is a fair treatment of Asian applicants going forward, including my other kids and my future grandkids.”
The lawsuit, filed Feb. 11, names the University of California system and campus leaders as defendants — as well as leaders at all five UC schools he applied to that had rejected him.
The Sacramento Bee reported:
Stanley, who’s now 19, and Nan Zhong are suing the University of California for racial discrimination over a pattern of discriminating against “highly qualified Asian-American applicants.”
Stanley and Nan Zhong are representing themselves after multiple parties they contacted declined to take the case or didn’t answer, the complaint notes.
… As a result, they turned to AI to help create their nearly 300-page filing. “The legal complaint was largely written by ChatGPT and Gemini,” Nan Zhong said. “We are going to file lawsuits against more universities very soon.”
A University of California spokesperson told McClatchy News that it hadn’t been served with the lawsuit as of Feb. 20. … The spokesperson noted California banned considering race in admissions in 1996 and said the University of California has followed that law accordingly.
A teen genius with a 4.4 GPA and 1590 SAT Score—who was hired straight out of high school by Google for a Ph.D level Software Engineer position—was rejected by 16 out of 18 colleges including 5 UC Schools: Berkeley, Davis, UCLA, UCSD and UCSB.
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The scariest part of this is that no attorneys were willing to take the case.
The Communists clearly control the legal profession in California (and elsewhere) and would likely disbar any attorney who took the case.
I suspect if the family had $$$$$ to pay the legal fees, an attorney would have been willing to work on the case.
Perhaps the family should create a legal fund to pursue the matter.
If he changed his name to Elvira King-Boink and identified as trans he’d probably be accepted. Also, make the personal essay about his struggle to be seen and his desire to promote DEI in tech.
It’s not a hard game to play, just a deeply degrading one.
Yeah, just chop your crank off and you’ll get bumped to the front of the line.
He is the kind of person we need reproducing, DEI are the kind who should not.
He’s working for google. He obviously doesn’t need college and it be a waste for him unless he wants to teach.
That might actually be a problem. If he doesn’t need college, and if he already has a job at google, what are his damages?
Race discrimination. When he was applying he didn’t know he could get a job at Google but that isn’t the point. He was discriminated against, it’s pretty obvious. Colleges used to compete to get smart kids in, now they compete to keep them out for “diversity”
Unfortunately if he wants to find a job after Google he’s going to need a college degree to his name. He’s obviously tremendously intelligent but he has to get past the hiring department and resume scanner that require a degree.
Without a degree, his application would likely never be seen by human decision-makers. It seems nearly everyone uses computer programs to initially “screen” applications by getting rid of the “obviously” unqualified before humans ever see the applications.
You are wrong about the degree, I bet Musk would hire him in a heartbeat.
Also, a lot of degrees are not worth the paper they are printed on.
That is an excellent question!
I assume he’s programming. Programming is a trade in my opinion. You learn it mostly by doing it. However, a court might not see it that way especially if he argues he wanted the credentials so they would open other doors not often available to someone without then.
Programmers are not created equal. Some are just coders, others are true engineers. The truth is that understanding hardware is a huge asset, understanding interaction between hardware and software makes a better engineer.
When I was last employed at a college and “affirmative action” was the fashion, the list of people who were actively discriminated against went something like this:
Chinese girls (treated the worst)
Chinese boys
Japanese and Indian girls
Japanese and Indian boys
White girls
White boys
Then, the ones who were viewed favorably, in increasing order of preference:
Hispanic girls
Hispanic boys
Black girls
Black boys (treated the best)
Since most colleges are nearly 60% girls, girls’ standards are always a little higher than boys. I don’t know if that’s changed now that colleges have to do their discriminating secretly.
If Zhong had simply lied and said his mother was Black (since Zhong obviously isn’t black), he would have gotten in everywhere with full-ride scholarships in most places. There are times when lying is ethical, and this is one of them. Once they found out he wasn’t really Black, they couldn’t do anything about it because it was illegal for them to have given him preference.
The entirety of higher ed needs to be Doged. The level of corruption is unimaginable. It has occurred because there is no system of checks and balances.
Admissions: The corruption is not just the racial favoritism game. It is far more based on all the other forms of favoritism. Children of donors and alumni; children of the rich and famous; athletes Also, the admissions policies around affirmative action are actually discrimination against Asian applicants masquerading as helping black applicants.
Federal student loans: The vast waste of money in higher education is fueled by tuition increases at at least twice the rate of inflation, a practice that has gone on for decades. Rather than doing any cost cutting, universities have taken advantage of the student loans to finance minimal teaching loads, extravagant building programs, DEI protection payoffs, administrative bloat, outrageous executive salaries, and insanely expensive athletic budgets.
Exemptions from federal, state and local taxes: Revenue from tuition is never taxed. Charitable contributions including million dollar donations for buildings and whole programs are tax deductible which means that tax payers, including people with mediocre incomes are paying for the tax deductions taken by the rich donors.
Conversion of tenure track jobs to contingent faculty: In many universities, part time faculty, most of whom have doctoral degrees, teach the vast majority of students at salaries that are a small fraction of that made by tenured and even tenure track faculty.
Higher education has a monopoly on credentialization. This enables universities to charge ever higher tuition. It also enables book publishers to charge outrageous prices for textbooks and produce new additions every three or four years making it impossible for students to save by purchasing used books.
In spite of the self serving ideology about how caring the university faculties and administrators are about social justice, the reality is that they are far more greedy than private enterprise which must compete in the marketplace.
Compared to academia, the federal government is a paragon of efficiency.
In business you either produce profits or you are expendable, unless you are DEI.