This 18 yo Asian American genius got rejected from 16 colleges because of racism

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This 18 yo Asian American genius got rejected from 16 colleges because of racism

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In February 2025, Nanzong and his son Stanley filed a lawsuit against the University of California system alleging racial discrimination against Asian-Americans in the college admissions process. Stanley Zong was no ordinary applicant. By age 18, he had demonstrated such exceptional coding prowess that Google hired him at an L4 position, typically ... Read More

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