A 16 colleges he applied to added to the list of Asian American teenager whiz kids whose academic performance was criticized for discrimination despite having a 4.42 balanced grade-point average and a near-perfect 1590 score on his SAT.
Stanley Zhong, 19, and his parents, Nan Zhong, have filed lawsuits against Cornell University, three universities that rejected Stanley after he applied for admission in the fall of 2023, and the University of Washington, the University of Michigan, and the University of Michigan.
The Zhongs ‘ complaints against the University of California system and five UC schools, which rejected Stanley’s software, are just two more of the three that were filed in late February and mid-March.
The claims cover Stanley’s accomplishments as a high school student, including “acquiring second place in the MIT Battlecode competition, highest-level National Voluntary Service Award,” “advancement to the Google Code Jam and Facebook Hacker Cup quarterfinals,” and “advancement to the highest-level National Voluntary Service Award.”
According to the issues, Stanley was “affected by the loss of education opportunities, emotional problems, and social destruction.”
Nan Zhong expressed his hope that the claims will succeed.
According to the attorneys these institutions have retained, they appear to be taking the claims seriously, Nan Zhong said in a new phone appointment with The College Fix.
Zhong claimed that the University of Washington retained Robert McKenna, a former state attorney general, and the large, internationally known WilmerHale law firm to address the pair’s issues.
Nan Zhong told The Fix,” That is the largest legitimate weapon you can buy.” They reportedly understood that this situation was not something they could simply ignore.
Stanley Zhong ended up leaving high school to pursue a PhD-level application engineer career at Google. According to his father, he was given a place that typically necessitated a PhD.
He claimed that his brother is happy that he still works there and that the claims relate to different Asian-American students who might be in the same position.
” From my view, this is really essential for my younger brother, who will apply to university in a few years, and we need to do this now for my grandchildren,” he said.
According to Nan Zhong, the claims have a plan because California, Washington, and Michigan all have very strong position laws that specifically forbid racial discrimination in school admittance.
Dana Robinson Slote, UW’s Director of Media Relations, stated in a speech to The College Fix that” UW stands behind its admissions procedure, and we have long recognized that our potential is limited and we are unable to say some extremely talented and capable candidates. While the constitutional process is advancing, we are reviewing the complaint and are likely to have no further comment.
The University of Michigan’s director of public affairs, Kay Jarvis, stated in a statement to The Fix that the school does not post on pending litigation.
In a mid-April article on Heterodox STEM’s Substack, Nan Zhong outlined some of his lawful technique and the use of AI to publish his lawsuits.
He wrote,” Our “legal group” includes Gemini and ChatGPT.” They did a fantastic job of creating the legitimate complaints. We can hardly expect more for$ 20 per month, 24/7 access, and no conflicts of interest to worry about.
Our AI-drafted answer forced one of the universities to back down and completely agree with our request for document retention when one of their lawyers objected to the range of our dispute hold notice.
Lawsuits:
University of California — ( Google Docs link )
University of Washington — (Google doc link)
University of Michigan — (Google doc link)
Cornell — (Google doc link)
Nan Zhong told The Fix he was disappointed that despite sending the reporters copies of the petition, none of the college student papers, aside from those at Cornell, have ignored his and his father’s history.
” All these school papers do not seem to be interested,” he said.
Students Who Oppose Racial Discrimination, or SWORD, are named as an extra claimant by The Zhongs, who note in the Substack op-ed:” While we have whistleblower reports regarding the key use of competition at each of the universities sued, we are constantly collecting more for both student admissions and faculty hiring, whether private or no.
MORE: 16 colleges turned down the youth hired by Google. He is currently bringing a lawsuit for bias.
IMAGE CAPTION AND CREDIT: A snapshot of Stanley Zhong from a YouTube channel.
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