Rejected From 16 Colleges For No Reason (Stanley Zhong)

do you want to know the truth about Stanley dong the 4.4 GPA 1590 sat kid who got rejected from all of these colleges but got hired by Google well I got some more information on it so stay tuned everybody hit that like button and check out other episodes of the hot pop boys as I break this down roll the clip you may recall the ABC7 story that went viral 16 months ago a palao teen hired straight out of high school by Google as a PhD level software engineer yet he was rejected by most colleges he applied to including five UC campuses even with a 4.4 GPA and a 1590 out of 1600 on the SATs some of them were certainly expected you know Stanford MIT you know it's it is what it is right but yeah for some of them like calply uh some of the state schools I really thought you know I had a good chance so this case has been talked about for for about a year now and I feel like the sentiment of the comment section from what I can tell is focusing a little bit more on the fact that Stanley's father does work at Google so they assume that his job that he got at Google was due to nepotism now while that might have not hurt that his father worked at Google I'm not sure if it's nepotism and I'm going to talk about why but can Stanley Tong be benefiting from nepotism at Google while also being discriminated by all these different colleges including even ones that he should have got into so I'm going to break this down guys let's watch more of this clip first of all um in addition to Stanley there a lot of other Asian-American students um who actually contacted us about their College admission stories how they're rejected by UC despite their outstanding qualification similar to Stanley's so that is evidence number one and evidence number two that we have um collected evidence that UC is using race in clear violation of the law in faculty hiring and to the degree they actually not it's not only using it but they're also knowing it's illegal they're also hiding the evidence of using it so that's evidence number two evidence number three we also look at some of limited available public data and there's a clear suppression of Asian enrollment despite the strong population growth um in Asian community in cforia you know just because even if you could prove that in faculty hiring there is racial consideration can you necessarily draw a straight line to emissions that is a totally different process right that is a process we need to P out in the court um but the logic we're going after is that hey these guys know what they're doing and they know it's illegal and they're actively concealing it so it's likely we're not going to find anything that can put on paper saying we're going to do this but um we have seen this playing out in faculty hiring and we are making the uh allegation that they they're probably doing that in student ad Mission as well because these two are closely related some people might look at this and say look Stanley is working at Google making good money uh with a dream job that top university graduates aspire to why does he want to be a part of this and and for you some critics might be why are you not letting this go there's a bigger story here um first of all I think the story is bigger than Stanley himself and bigger than myself for sure and uh what we're trying to get out of this is a fair treat of Asian applicants going forward um including my a kids and my future grandkids I mean look at all these colleges he got rejected from University of Washington that's my alma Mo there's no way Stanley shouldn't have gotten into there uh Cal Poly are you kidding me UCSB Santa Barbara that's like the beachy UC um he didn't get into University of Michigan University of Wisconsin I wonder if some of these schools rejected him just on the basis that they just assumed he was going to get into a better College yes Stanford even sure I could understand so hard but UCSD come on anyways guys uh let's talk about this because I did some deep dive Research into Stanley Tong I went on his LinkedIn which I'm assuming has a lot of the same information as his college application so I'm going to be sharing that with you in a second but yeah I mean he also aside from his 4.4 uh GPA which he got at a very very competitive High School school he also got 1590 on his SATs out of, 1600 these are incredible stats right um at my school for example growing up my public high school you could not even get Beyond a 4.0 I believe um he also founded a document signing startup called rabbit sign you know what I mean um and also let me just go through Stanley's LinkedIn real quick because this was also on his college resume I'm assuming you know what I mean I don't know what he said in his personal essay but this is all the stuff that was probably also listed for his college look 2021 USA Computing Olympiad Platinum division did you understand I can look's look at the divisions right here bronze silver gold Platinum it's the top one in 2021 this is all in high school Google code Jam 2021 semifinalist I mean what was that nepotism that helped him code yeah I mean his dad works at Google great I don't know if necessarily gets him the job automatically either you still got to be somewhat qualified okay MIT battle code 2023 number one US high school team okay and then 2023 I believe this was still in while he was in high school he placed third place in Picto CTF at Carnegie melon University that's a cyber security competition guys Stanley is the human AI he is the one he's programmed AI I don't understand how these schools rejected him based off this alone now I don't know what his essay was like he didn't release that but maybe his personal essay just wrote get me in here everybody else sucks if he wrote that sure I could see them getting rejected but other than that I don't get it so real quick um obviously him and his father are suing the University of California school system um but since 1996 proposition uh there's a proposition in 1996 that said UC schools are officially outlawed from using race-based admissions right and Stanley's lawsuit is saying no no no no no they are still discriminating against asian-americans and I do want to say that there are actually other multiple lawsuits against the UC system over the years in 2018 Asian-American Advocates versus the UC system okay and then 2020 there's the famous students for fair admissions versus the University of California recently in 2025 this year there's also a group called students against racial discrimination I don't know if that's the same lawsuit as Stanley but basically there's a lot of lawsuits against the UC saying hey guys like I know that it's technically illlegal to do race based admissions but somehow we're getting shafted here so anyways let's get into the comments section um a lot of people are focusing on uh Stanley's job at Google so if you just base it off his experience in high school and all the Computing and coding competitions he was in I'm not sure if getting the job at Google was fully nepotism I don't think it hurt that his dad worked there he's just a software engineer manager he's not seite he's not up in the the executives he he doesn't know Sergey Bren or whatever the you know the Google people you don't know those people maybe but uh he is a manager sure engineer um but I think more so that just helped he was able to help Stanley get into engineering you know obviously if your dad is an NBA player what are the chances is you're going to become a good basketball player well the chances are high makes sense right so anyways there are uh against the accusations of nepotism somebody said dude unless his dad is like some SE sweet member I don't think it was nepotism um somebody said yeah you have to be high up on the chart for you know people to bend over backwards for you so I think while helped at the end of the day Stanley was qualified to get the job at goog I do not really think it was nepotism but there's also people who do they're like listen the father was a manager at Google what like isn't the irony that this nepo baby can't handle being rejected he's just complaining he's so entitled um but again you guys decide for yourself I'm just saying based off of Stanley's LinkedIn which I'm assuming is similar to his college application that it probably wasn't nepotism um somebody says Stanley deserves to sue them he's a top candidate a lot of people are cheering for Stanley uh and then some people are kind of like hey Asians were fighting to end affirmative action how's that working out right guys it is true that it is debatable right now um if the ending of affirmative action is clearly boosting Asian numbers in colleges and letting all the qualified Asians in I'm not sure it's very early on to tell but it is debatable um but yeah and then some other people who say they work in the college ADM uh side of things they say you know uh maybe it was his ability his inability to write a good personal narrative about his extracurriculars um he you know PE colleges are not just looking at the numbers and the test scores they want to see something more they want to see a good college essay and I'm like again he has so many extracurriculars he has all these competitions now I mean do those countless extracurriculars could he have thrown in a sport should he have also done like 10 or like chess club or something I guess but dude to get in the University of Washington to get into the University of Wisconsin we're not talking about Harvard and Stanford I'm talking about UC Santa Barbara they got a lot of abgs at that school so anyways and UCSD also good amount of abgs he couldn't get into a school full of abgs I think he could anyways it's no diss on ABG I'm just saying there's a lot of smart ABS out there there are a lot of Pharmacists um but anyways um I guess like after looking into the case you know um at first even I was getting tricked by the nepotism ideas where I was like yeah Stanley your dad is a software engineer manager at Google that means you just got the job at Google and then I look at his accolades and all the competitions that he competed in not his father but he did and I'm like I don't know I don't know if him getting the job at Google was maybe it was like 10 15% it probably got him a little boost on his application but like ultimately he has to do the work like this is not one of those marketing positions for Google this is not like a product uh marketing assistant executive where you can shove in like your niece into that role that's slightly underqualified or your nephew into that role that's slightly underqualified like these are hard Computing jobs so he clearly has to qualify and it will be very clear if he is underqualified for this job so the job at Google I think is warranted so far based off what I could see College admissions it's kind of boggling it baffles me I don't know it's almost so baffling I almost don't know if it's because he's Asian I get that that is probably the idea that like I don't know but like maybe these schools just like maybe the University of Wisconsin was like oh yeah we don't really have like a good enough computer science program for this kid I don't know how they that's not how they talk in Wisconsin but like like like or University of Washington that's where I went it was like well uh Stanley this Stanley kid I mean he's a sure is a whiz K whiz kid at coding you know he probably belongs in Stanford or at least Berkeley you know but uh you know we're not even going to waste an admission on him just just go there Stanley he'll get into one of those so I'm not really sure or maybe he said some racist stuff on his essay oh Stanley is that what gu you rejected I'm just kidding but like how funny would that be if he said some cancelable stuff in his personal essay yeah I don't get it guys so this is the truth you know um I actually don't have a final answer but I do have some of more Stanley's accolades man he wasn't just a SAT score and he's not just a GPA bro we're talking about multiple cyber security competitions battle code code Jam Computing Olympiad doing a startup rabbit sign whatever docu sign whatever it is you know what I mean um and by the way to really drive a lawsuit this long I want you to know it costs money it cost cost money now even if his dad makes a good amount of money in the Bay Area like you know how much money it costs to just live in the Bay Area at their level in their neighborhood and you know so and to spend that money also on the lawyers for this long to have this lawsuit going on this long it costs a lot of money a lot like we're talking like maybe a hundred thousand hundreds of thousands of dollars possibly depending on how long AG goes so um yeah I guess I wonder I I I am still it's funny cuz I looked more into it and I'm baffled on why he got rejected still cuz he got the acolytes he got the experience I think he deserves his job at Google he definitely deserved to get into some of those schools that rejected him and uh yeah I mean like his dad said there's a lot of other Asian students have a similar story so apparently it's common to have Asian students get rejected lot Asians getting rejected what's new anyways guys uh let me know what you think in the comments down below um you know I don't know what's going to happen with the lawsuit but it's interesting a lot of people talking about it because it is also going to set the stage for a lot of other Asian students that feel like they get rejected but how come other Stu types of students don't feel like they get rejected nobody else makes a fuss about getting rejected but Asians is it because we are wrongfully getting rejected or we're just the only ones that complain about it let me know in the comments down below hit that like button and until next time I'm out peace