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Hilarious, and good for him!!!!!
Stanley Zhong, an 18-year-old high school graduate, has been hired by Google after being rejected by 16 colleges out of the 18 he applied to.
About Zhong: Zhong graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, with impressive credentials, including a 3.97 unweighted GPA, a 4.42 weighted GPA and a near-perfect SAT score of 1590. During his sophomore year, he also founded his own startup called RabbitSign, which offers unlimited free e-signing.
Rejection letters: Although Zhong did not expect to be accepted to some schools like Stanford and MIT, the teen was surprised when he received college rejection letters from state schools.
āSome 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,ā Zhong told ABC7 News.
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To name a few, Zhong was rejected by MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA and UCSD. His only acceptances were from the University of Texas and the University of Maryland.
Google offers Zhong a job: Despite the college rejections, Zhong received a full-time software engineering job offer from California-based tech giant Google. While he initially planned to attend the University of Texas, he decided to put college on hold to take the software engineering job.
āI actually went to the University of Texasās orientation,ā Zhong shared. āBut once the Google offer came through, I thought this was a good opportunity. Iām going to take it, and weāll see in a year from now, do I still want to attend University of Texas or should I stick with Google?ā
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College admissions discussions: Zhongās story was reportedly brought up during a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on Sept. 28, which discussed the impact of the Supreme Court's decision to ban affirmative action in college admissions.
Zhongās father, Nan, also shared his story on some parent chat groups and blogs, leading to its prominence amid the national conversation on elite college admissions.
Advocating for transparency: Zhong and his family said they are sharing their story to spark conversation and advocate for transparency in the college admissions process.
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āOne of the main things that weāre pushing for is transparency,ā Zhong says. āWhen my story [was] shared, we heard a lot of speculation about why I didnāt get in and what the reasons couldāve beenā¦ There shouldnāt really need to be a need for speculation. If we get rejected, we should be able to look at the reasons why. We shouldnāt just have to blindly guess in the dark about a black box process.ā
Stanley Zhong, an 18-year-old high school graduate, has been hired by Google after being rejected by 16 colleges out of the 18 he applied to.
About Zhong: Zhong graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, with impressive credentials, including a 3.97 unweighted GPA, a 4.42 weighted GPA and a near-perfect SAT score of 1590. During his sophomore year, he also founded his own startup called RabbitSign, which offers unlimited free e-signing.
Rejection letters: Although Zhong did not expect to be accepted to some schools like Stanford and MIT, the teen was surprised when he received college rejection letters from state schools.
āSome 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,ā Zhong told ABC7 News.
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To name a few, Zhong was rejected by MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA and UCSD. His only acceptances were from the University of Texas and the University of Maryland.
Google offers Zhong a job: Despite the college rejections, Zhong received a full-time software engineering job offer from California-based tech giant Google. While he initially planned to attend the University of Texas, he decided to put college on hold to take the software engineering job.
āI actually went to the University of Texasās orientation,ā Zhong shared. āBut once the Google offer came through, I thought this was a good opportunity. Iām going to take it, and weāll see in a year from now, do I still want to attend University of Texas or should I stick with Google?ā
More from NextShark: James Corden Plans Change for āSpill Your Gutsā Segment After Criticism Over Mocking Asian Food
College admissions discussions: Zhongās story was reportedly brought up during a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on Sept. 28, which discussed the impact of the Supreme Court's decision to ban affirmative action in college admissions.
Zhongās father, Nan, also shared his story on some parent chat groups and blogs, leading to its prominence amid the national conversation on elite college admissions.
Advocating for transparency: Zhong and his family said they are sharing their story to spark conversation and advocate for transparency in the college admissions process.
More from NextShark: Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei sparks outrage among social media followers over vaccine refusal meme post
āOne of the main things that weāre pushing for is transparency,ā Zhong says. āWhen my story [was] shared, we heard a lot of speculation about why I didnāt get in and what the reasons couldāve beenā¦ There shouldnāt really need to be a need for speculation. If we get rejected, we should be able to look at the reasons why. We shouldnāt just have to blindly guess in the dark about a black box process.ā
Bay Area teen rejected by 16 colleges is hired by Google instead
Stanley Zhong, an 18-year-old high school graduate, has been hired by Google after being rejected by 16 colleges out of the 18 he applied to. About Zhong: Zhong graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, with impressive credentials, including a 3.97 unweighted GPA, a 4.42...
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