Internet supports Asian American boy rejected by top US unis, later accepted by Google

A teenager from Palo Alto, who despite scoring 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT was rejected from 16 universities in the United States, recently received a job offer from Google. 18-year-old Stanley Zhong, a graduate of Gunn High School, California, earned a near 4.0 GPA. He started his own e-signing startup called RabbitSign in his sophomore year. Upon graduating, the brilliant teen applied to 18 universities in total, only to be turned down by almost all of them. Zhong revealed that following the rejections, Google offered him a full-time software engineering role.

Zhong’s story gained limelight after a witness testifying at the White House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing in Congress, mentioned him during the discussion on affirmative action in colleges. The goal of this hearing was to consider the impact on students of different races caused by the Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action in college admissions, per ABC7. His story left a profound impact on people across the world as many social media users voiced their opinions in Zhong’s support.