Stanley Zhong is a recent high school graduate who was hired by Google as a PhD level software engineer. He is suing the University of California and the US Department of Education. Why?
Because Stanley has a 4.4 GPA on a 4 point scale, and scored a 1590 out of 1600 on his SATs, yet was not accepted into any state school. He is suing because other students, not as well qualified as he, were accepted. He says that it is discrimination against Asians.
I agree.
Cal Poly, one of the schools who rejected him, has this to say about their “diversity” admissions:
The freshman class at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) is diverse, with a high percentage of women, students from underrepresented communities, and first-generation college students.
Cal Poly defines an underrepresented minority student as someone who is Hispanic, African American, Native American, Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, or multi-racial with at least one of those four ethnicities. Note that Asians and whites don’t count.
Take them to the cleaners, Stanley.
7 Comments
SoCoRuss · February 24, 2025 at 12:32 pm
Hope he is serious. He needs to take it all the way till he owns the school. So many of these settle out of court but it continues on for others.
wojtek · February 24, 2025 at 4:28 pm
I’m sorry to hear that he was not admitted. And it is a huge injustice. But if all he got is weighted GPA and SAT, a start-up and that he helped some kids in coding then he’ll loose:
“Cal Poly is an impacted campus and admission is competitive in all majors. While GPA and test scores (when applicable) are important, it is impossible to predict a candidate’s chances by looking at these statistics alone. We consider other factors for admission deemed important to our campus. All candidates are objectively evaluated by the cognitive and non-cognitive variables under our faculty-mandated Multi-Criteria Admission (MCA) process.”
He would need to prove that he was not evaluated objectively on a range of criteria, well beyond weighted GPA and SAT. He won’t be able to do that. In particular, b/c a wide range of “schools” rejected him.
Cederq · February 24, 2025 at 7:03 pm
So, what you are saying is wojtek is Cal Poly is a DEI enhanced school, more interested in liberals, queers and minorities that couldn’t handle entrance exams at a junior college or community college. When I went back to attain my bachelors in nursing, the closet school was Portland State University, in Portland Oregon. I had something similar, I had a 3.98 GPA and had already received my associates in nursing at a local community college. At first I was denied and found out I wasn’t diverse enough. My next appointment with the Dean of Admissions my father’s lawyer with a suit already prepared and ready to be served. It was enough to bypass all the “range of criteria” and the fact I had already served five years in the Army. PSU was and is a very liberal school and I wasn’t. I kept my head down, avoided all the liberal crap on campus and graduated with honors, I also attended there to receive my Masters and with honors and both times I told them to stuff them and both times did not participate in the graduations as I was scheduled to work those days. I also graduated from high school but refused to go to the graduation. I was there to get an education, nothing more. Colleges forget their main purpose, to educate a person, not delve into bullshit social mores and grievances and politics.
wojtek · February 24, 2025 at 10:39 pm
And also “MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cornell University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Caltech, University of Washington and University of Wisconsin”. Apparently only Austin and College Park did not make this closeted list. Which I find a little surprising 🙂
What was the acceptance rate of PSU in your days? B/c these days it is about 3x that of CalPoly.
But that’s not important. In the end what matters is how you approach the situation. Anywhere in the world every university leaves about 10% of seats for the so called deans’/presidents’/rectors’ “decisions”. This is to admit kids of friends, rich “donors”, local politicians, but also to resolve problems that otherwise could prove costly.
But every university in the world, once sued on admissions or grading matters will fight to death. And – some exemplary incompetence aside – will always win. Because court experts will come from academia.
In Poland admission are done a little differently than in the US and I’ve served my time on those committees. In my department we always want the best problem solvers. We can’t always get them. But that’s what we want. And the admissions process is designed in such a way that we ensure we get the best problem solvers that apply. Everything else is unimportant to us. Including grades, prior knowledge etc. And we get away with this. But I can easily imagine that somebody interested in “other characteristics” could also design a law-proof system to achieve it.
Danny · February 24, 2025 at 6:13 pm
He has the brains regardless of whatever the admissions say. And that is key – he will out-think those people at every turn.
BTW – I’m fucking sick of “underrepresented” and “underserved” — all bullshit. They are the drag on our society right now. I don’t have any sympathy for those slackers.
JimmyPx · February 25, 2025 at 12:12 am
The core of the issue is that people who are “minorities” want a free ride and to get opportunities that they didn’t earn.
Look at Kamala Harris and listen to that moron speak. She can’t even carry on a couple hour conversation with Joe Rogan.
She’s the poster child for DEI, guaranteed she got a free ride all through school and into the DAs office and then climbed the rest of the ladder on her knees.
It terrifies me that that moron almost became President.
Aesop · February 25, 2025 at 8:47 pm
Good luck to him, but he’ll have to get beyond the 9th Circus and in front of SCOTUS to get anything like justice.
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