This is so perfect. At this point, does this kid even need college?
ABC 7 in California reports:
Google engineer rejected by 16 colleges uses AI to sue universities for racial discriminationA father in Palo Alto, California, who has filed multiple lawsuits against major university systems over his son’s college rejections, says artificial intelligence has become the key to pursuing the cases after no law firm agreed to represent them.The legal fight stems from a 2023 story by our sister station ABC7 News in San Francisco about Stanley Zhong, a then 18-year-old Gunn High School student with a 4.4 GPA and a near-perfect 1590 SAT score who was rejected by 16 out of the 18 colleges he applied to. Despite the rejections, he was later hired as a software engineer at Google.Two and a half years later, his father, Nan Zhong, says the family remains convinced racial discrimination played a role in those decisions. He spoke exclusively with ABC7 News anchor Kristen Sze.Zhong said Stanley, now 21, is happy and doing well in his job at Google. “In 2025, he received an outstanding impact performance rating, which is higher than majority of the Google engineers,” he said.Zhong said the family spent a year in discussions with University of California officials after Stanley’s rejections, but nothing changed. He said the turning point came when a UC admissions director emailed him, writing that his allegation of racial discrimination was unfounded because California law bans the practice.”When I got that line, I kept scratching my head,” Zhong said. “They’re saying there cannot be any noncompliance if there’s a law banning it, but we’re exactly accusing them of breaking the law secretly. So that is the point where I realized there’s nothing we can achieve by having a conversation with them.”Zhong said conversations with state lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom also went nowhere, prompting the family to sue the University of California, the University of Washington, the University of Michigan and Cornell University.He said they struggled to find legal representation. “We’ve been talking to local law firms, national law firms. By my account, we probably talked to dozens of legal organizations and law firms. None of them took it,” Zhong said. With statutes of limitation approaching, he said the family decided to represent themselves.
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