‘I was rejected from 16 colleges because I’m Asian and smart’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/03/04/teenager-rejected-from-14-colleges-because-asian-lawsuit/
Mr Zhong set up his own tech startup – an e-document website called Rabbit-Sign – while still in high school and earned a job at Google by the age of 13, according to the Sacramento Bee.
His high school grade point average (GPA) was an exceptional 4.42, much higher than the American average of 3.0, and he was one of only around 2,000 students to score 1590 or higher on the SAT, out of more than two million students who take the test every year.
Yet after sending off his applications, he was rejected by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell University, Georgia Tech, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/03/04/teenager-rejected-from-14-colleges-because-asian-lawsuit/
Mr Zhong set up his own tech startup – an e-document website called Rabbit-Sign – while still in high school and earned a job at Google by the age of 13, according to the Sacramento Bee.
His high school grade point average (GPA) was an exceptional 4.42, much higher than the American average of 3.0, and he was one of only around 2,000 students to score 1590 or higher on the SAT, out of more than two million students who take the test every year.
Yet after sending off his applications, he was rejected by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell University, Georgia Tech, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin.