US EditionTeen with 4.0 GPA who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 top universities
- Zach Yadegari, an 18-year-old with a 4.0 GPA and the founder of Cal AI, faced rejection from 15 top universities, despite claiming his app earns $30 million annually.
- Stanley Zhong, a 19-year-old who excelled academically, was rejected from 16 of the 18 colleges he applied to, leading to a lawsuit alleging discriminatory admissions practices against highly qualified Asian-American applicants.
- Following a 2023 Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action, colleges, including those in California, must not use race in admissions, complicating the already competitive environment for applicants in programs like computer science.
- The University of California maintains that it does not engage in discriminatory admissions practices, asserting that it evaluates applications without regard to race, as stated by Han Mi Yoon-Wu, an associate vice provost.
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Rejected by 16 colleges, hired by Google. Now he's suing some of the schools for anti-Asian discrimination
Stanley Zhong had a 4.42 grade-point average in high school and a nearly perfect SAT score but got rejected from 16 of the 18 colleges he applied for. He is suing the schools.
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