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Stanley Zhong: 4.42 GPA, near perfect SAT, recruited by Google at 13—and rejected by 16/18 colleges he applied to. Now he’s suing some schools who rejected him, saying it’s due to his race.

Hate to tell you Stan, but it isn’t. I highlighted what got you rejected in red: Colleges figured you’d quit.
Rejected by 16 colleges, hired by Google. Now he's suing some of the schools for anti-Asian discrimination Stanley Zhong, 19, and his father have filed a series of lawsuits alleging colleges engaged in racial discrimination against Asian American applicants. (Nan Zhong) "It was surprise upon surprise upon surprise, and then it turned into frustration and, eventually, anger," his father, Nan Zhong, told The Times in a recent interview. "And I think both Stanley and I felt the same way, that something is really funky here." Less than a year later, as a college freshman in Texas, Zhong was hired by Google for a software engineering position that typically requires an advanced degree. Now, he and his father are suing several of the colleges that rejected him. "Those things would be hard to achieve even for professionals," Nan Zhong said. "And so we thought that for him - with those kinds of credentials - that an undergrad computer science program should be fairly reasonable for him to get into. But unfortunately, that turned out to be not the case at all." Zhong applied to computer science programs at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, UC San Diego and California Polytechnic State University. He also sought admission to several private or out-of-state colleges, including MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, University of Wisconsin, University of Washington and Caltech. Zhong was granted admission to the University of Texas in Austin and the University of Maryland. He opted to enroll at UT Austin, but left after turning 18 and accepting a job offer at Google. Nan Zhong also works at Google, but is employed in a different department and said he had no role in his son's hiring. In the months after his son's rejections, Nan Zhong reached out to the UC Board of Regents, elected officials and even Gov. Gavin Newsom, urging them to make the college admissions process more clear and alleging that Asian Americans are being held to a higher standard than other applicants.
April 9, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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who gives a fuck dude she brags about using the money she receives to get laws passed that abuse countless actual people who exist in the real world
May 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Just sayin’ 🇺🇸💙🩷🍀
May 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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May 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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altnoaa.bsky.social
Racism is when you believe a white guy is innocent after a jury has concluded 34 times that he isn’t, and you immediately decide an immigrant is guilty when the immigrant hasn’t even had a chance to present their defense.
May 3, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.
Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses.
January 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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May 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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laying the groundwork for open defiance of judges
Can it be so that Judges aren’t allowing the USA to Deport Criminals, including Murderers, out of our Country and back to where they came from? If this is so, our Country, as we know it, is finished! Americans will have to get used to a very different, crime filled, LIFE. This is not what our Founders had in mind!!!
May 3, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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May 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Reuters: WHITE HOUSE BUDGET PROPOSAL: WOULD CUT FUNDS FOR USAID, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, PRESCHOOL GRANTS, MINORITY BUSINESS AGENCY
May 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
Correct. This is a President of the United States declaring himself a dictator.

And instead of Americans understanding that we’re now under imminent threat of martial law and tyranny, we’ll get a month of think pieces about what the President of the United States meant by his UNAMBIGUOUS statement.
davidcorn.bsky.social David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · Feb 15
This is fascism.
February 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Dear God. I almost feel sorry for anyone who allows themself to be fooled by this guy.
January 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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shenanigans55.bsky.social
They shall henceforth be referred to as swasticars by me too. 😂
January 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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annastasia77.bsky.social
56% of you idiots will soon find out when you FAFO... I wish I could say that I feel bad for you, but my bucket of fucks to give, depleted Nov 5th, 2024
January 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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January 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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None of it applies to us or anyone who disagrees with the orange felon.
January 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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January 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I'd like to take a moment to wish every fuck-head who voted for Trump the worst 4 years of their lives.
January 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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artcandee.bsky.social
ICE is rounding up U.S. citizens?

Including a U.S. military veteran in New Jersey?

It's almost like we said something like this was going to happen.
January 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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one reason democrats should cut the “we just want to work together” shit is that you lose the opportunity to do things like, for instance, hold a loud press conference on the fact that trumps ICE thugs arrested a veteran www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...
News: MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA’S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT
Official Page of Newark, NJ News: MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA’S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT
www.newarknj.gov
January 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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January 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Before the election, I warned that Trump would pardon all of the Jan. 6 defendants and some of them would form the core of a new rightwing paramilitary organization loyal to Trump.

At the time, people dismissed me as alarmist. I stand by that prediction.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 21
REPORTER: Is there now a place for the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers in the political conversation following your pardons?

TRUMP: Well, we have to see
January 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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savedemocracy.bsky.social
RIP. You had a pretty good run!!
January 21, 2025 at 5:58 AM