I’m a teen genius with a 4.4 GPA and 1590 SAT score, hired by Google right out of high school for a Ph.D level Software Engineer role. Despite my qualifications, I was rejected by 16 out of 18 colleges, including 5 UC schools, and I'm now suing for racial discrimination against highly qualified Asian-American candidates.
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A teen genius with a 4.4 GPA and 1590 SAT Score—who was hired straight out of high school by Google for a Ph.D level Software Engineer position—was rejected by 16 out of 18 colleges including 5 UC Schools: Berkeley, Davis, UCLA, UCSD and UCSB.
Now he’s suing for racial discrimination against “highly qualified Asian-American candidates.”
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I'm Stanley Joan, and despite my 4.4 GPA and high SAT score, many colleges, including UC schools, rejected me. Now, I'm a software engineer at Google.
My father and I are suing the University of California and the US Department of Education, alleging racial discrimination in admissions. UC denies this, stating that race is collected for statistical purposes only and not used in the admission process.
While some question why I'm pursuing this, given my current success, this is bigger than just me. We aim to ensure fair treatment for Asian applicants in the future. This is for my children and grandchildren.
Speaker 0: Palo Alto 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 fifteen ninety out of 1,600 on the SATs.
Speaker 1: Some of them
Speaker 2: were certainly expected, you know, Stanford MIT. You know it's it is what it is, right? Yeah, but yeah, but some of them like Cal Poly, some of the state schools I really thought you know I had a good chance.
Speaker 0: His name, Stanley Joan, and he and his father just filed a lawsuit against the University of California and the US Department of Education. The Jones alleged that UC is engaging in racial discrimination in admissions despite the law banning the use of race in the process. I want to show the UC statement to us when we inquire. They call these lawsuits meritless, and they also say the UC undergraduate admissions application collects students race and ethnicity for statistical purposes only. The information is not shared with application reviewers and is not used for admission.
Some people might look at this and say, look, Stanley is working at Google, making good money, 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?
Speaker 1: There's a bigger story here. First of all, I think the story is bigger than Stanley himself and bigger than myself for sure. And what we're trying to get out of this is a fair treatment of Asian applicants going forward, including my older kids and my future grandkids.
