U.S. Teenager, Snubbed by 16 Colleges, Secures Role at Google

11 Oct, (VNI) The eminent technological behemoth, Google, recently welcomed a prodigious talent: an 18-year-old graduate of a prominent high school, Stanley Zhong. Despite encountering repudiations from 16 distinguished institutions, encompassing MIT, Carnegie Melon, and Stanford, Zhong, hailing from Palo Alto and an alumnus of Gunn High School, exhibited extraordinary acumen. He achieved a remarkable score of 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), a pivotal milestone for undergraduate admissions. Notably, Zhong embarked on his entrepreneurial odyssey with the inception of RabbitSign during his sophomore year. Reflecting on the admissions process, Zhong conveyed to a news channel, "Well, some of them were certainly foreseen. You know, Stanford, MIT... it is what it is, right?... Some of the state schools I genuinely believed I had a substantial chance with, but it transpired that I fell short," as he articulated to ABC7. Subsequent to a succession of setbacks, Zhong transitioned into a full-time role as a software engineer at Google, commencing his tenure just this week. This extraordinary odyssey garnered attention during a session at the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, where a witness elucidated Zhong's experience. The focus of the hearing was to deliberate on how the recent Supreme Court ruling, which proscribed affirmative action in college admissions, is influencing university policies—a development that has left Stanley Zhong in a state of bewilderment. While Zhong secured admission to the University of Texas and the University of Maryland, he opted to defer enrollment at the former after receiving a job offer from Google. According to media reports Zhong intimated in an interview that he might still contemplate pursuing higher education in the future. For the time being, he finds himself engrossed not on a college campus, but within the dynamic environs of the Google campus, relishing this distinctive chapter in his life.