Bay Area high school grad rejected by 16 colleges hired by Googlehttps://abc7news.com/stanley-zhong-college-rejected-teen-full-time-job-google-admissions/13890332/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.
Kristen Sze: "I'm just wondering how you felt as each of these letters came in saying 'no, thank you, Stanley'"?
Stanley Zhong: "Oh, well, some of them were certainly expected. You know, Stanford, MIT, you know, it's, it is what it is, right?...Some of the state schools I really thought, you know, I had a good chance and turns out a bit of a chance I had, I didn't get in."
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Although Zhong recognizes that elite college admissions is complicated and his pool of Silicon Valley computer science major applicants is highly competitive, he admits to being surprised.
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.
Racial discrimination is alive and well in academia. And when even Google goes against it ...
FWIW, Gunn high school has been recognized as third best public high school in California. So his GPA probably is not even slightly grade-inflated.
