Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As Elon Musk twitted, "The left hates Asians".
It's very true.

Whos is that guy, the apartheid emerald mine owner?

A more trustworthy guy than a random and maliciously biased DCUM poster

Nah, Non-random maliciously biased person with a decade long track record of being trashy in his professional, personal, and civic life is not more trustworthy than someone who stated a simple non-dusputed fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again, switch his skin color to black and see what would happen.

Again, UC is race blind.

[Anonymous]

My guess is he interviewed poorly or wrote terrible essays.

I've met some very odd people with a similar pedigree and even MIT tries to sort out people that may be high risk for suicide (not saying he is, but there are things they look for that have nothing to do with awards or test scores).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As Elon Musk twitted, "The left hates Asians".
It's very true.

Whos is that guy, the apartheid emerald mine owner?

A more trustworthy guy than a random and maliciously biased DCUM poster

Nah, Non-random maliciously biased person with a decade long track record of being trashy in his professional, personal, and civic life is not more trustworthy than someone who stated a simple non-dusputed fact.

You're a pathetic liar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, switch his skin color to black and see what would happen.

Again, UC is race blind.

This is a joke. Race can be proxied in many different ways like in the recent TJ reform. You think people are that stupid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, switch his skin color to black and see what would happen.

Again, UC is race blind.

Michigan also

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My guess is he interviewed poorly or wrote terrible essays.

I've met some very odd people with a similar pedigree and even MIT tries to sort out people that may be high risk for suicide (not saying he is, but there are things they look for that have nothing to do with awards or test scores).

Still trying to make up false accusations for the victim blaming game? This is getting old....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure about his start-up but he and his team came in second for the google competition, which is a world wide event. Obviously, google thinks he is good, which makes me think that he actually contributed to the start-up or at least his CS skills are great.

Bottom line, this kid gets hired by google but not admitted to top programs or one UC school that he applied to. That should raise some red flags because it doesn't make sense. And when things don't make sense, it is reasonable to start asking what went wrong or why.

Lots of people quick to assume this kids father created the website, his parents pushed him, he wrote lousy essays, his teacher recommendations were bad. I doubt any of that is true because this kid got hired by google. He has to have been interviewed and vetted by one of the top US companies. I am surprised that people are so quick to criticize a high schooler instead of criticizing the college admission system.

No surprise. People are quick to jump out to justify the potential racial discrimination. They always try to make false accusations when Asians are the victims.

I agree with the OP, but for the majority of the schools the kid applied to it wasn’t racial discrimination. It’s competitive college admissions that has gotten worse in the last few years. The UCs CalPoly and Caltech didn’t even get to see his SAT score or count all of his AP classes in their GPA calculations. He wasn’t at the top of his HS class. I don’t think UWashington looks at SAT scores either. Stanford— probably an Asian penalty. MIT and Caltech, no. Don’t conveniently ignore all of his Asian classmates that were in the top 9% and did get into a UC.

Even though MIT is 25-30% Asian it does have a penalty. Most of my Asian friends knew this to be fact. The penalty is more that it is a hyper competitive pool and MIT has a bad history with Asian students committing suicide that, I believe, they've tried to control by rejecting students that have awards but little to no social skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure about his start-up but he and his team came in second for the google competition, which is a world wide event. Obviously, google thinks he is good, which makes me think that he actually contributed to the start-up or at least his CS skills are great.

Bottom line, this kid gets hired by google but not admitted to top programs or one UC school that he applied to. That should raise some red flags because it doesn't make sense. And when things don't make sense, it is reasonable to start asking what went wrong or why.

Lots of people quick to assume this kids father created the website, his parents pushed him, he wrote lousy essays, his teacher recommendations were bad. I doubt any of that is true because this kid got hired by google. He has to have been interviewed and vetted by one of the top US companies. I am surprised that people are so quick to criticize a high schooler instead of criticizing the college admission system.

No surprise. People are quick to jump out to justify the potential racial discrimination. They always try to make false accusations when Asians are the victims.

I agree with the OP, but for the majority of the schools the kid applied to it wasn’t racial discrimination. It’s competitive college admissions that has gotten worse in the last few years. The UCs CalPoly and Caltech didn’t even get to see his SAT score or count all of his AP classes in their GPA calculations. He wasn’t at the top of his HS class. I don’t think UWashington looks at SAT scores either. Stanford— probably an Asian penalty. MIT and Caltech, no. Don’t conveniently ignore all of his Asian classmates that were in the top 9% and did get into a UC.

Even though MIT is 25-30% Asian it does have a penalty. Most of my Asian friends knew this to be fact. The penalty is more that it is a hyper competitive pool and MIT has a bad history with Asian students committing suicide that, I believe, they've tried to control by rejecting students that have awards but little to no social skills.

That is a cold, cold hearted assessment. You are stating that MIT mitigates high rates of Asian student suicide by rejecting them?

This thread is ridiculous and mean in many ways - but this takes the cake.

For the record, I don't believe this kid was iced out just because he is Asian.

Also for the record - F U

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, switch his skin color to black and see what would happen.

Again, UC is race blind.

This is a joke. Race can be proxied in many different ways like in the recent TJ reform. You think people are that stupid?

You are really a non-nuanced and reactive thinker. Yes, race can be proxied but the UC system admits the top 9% of each school. The kid attended a wealthy, high-performing suburban school. Kids at his school don't benefit from racial proxies. The UCs didn't pass over applicants in his school for another school with lower-performing students. They passed over him and admitted the higher performing kids (based on GPA and rigor), which are predominantly Aisan. That is the system that CA adopted. Texas has the same system but admits more OOS students, especially UT Austin, and doesn't have an exploding college-age population compared to Texas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, switch his skin color to black and see what would happen.

Again, UC is race blind.

This is a joke. Race can be proxied in many different ways like in the recent TJ reform. You think people are that stupid?

You are really a non-nuanced and reactive thinker. Yes, race can be proxied but the UC system admits the top 9% of each school. The kid attended a wealthy, high-performing suburban school. Kids at his school don't benefit from racial proxies. The UCs didn't pass over applicants in his school for another school with lower-performing students. They passed over him and admitted the higher performing kids (based on GPA and rigor), which are predominantly Aisan. That is the system that CA adopted. Texas has the same system but admits more OOS students, especially UT Austin, and doesn't have an exploding college-age population compared to Texas.

I mean they can tell you're an Asian from your last name. It's not that hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, switch his skin color to black and see what would happen.

Again, UC is race blind.

This is a joke. Race can be proxied in many different ways like in the recent TJ reform. You think people are that stupid?

You are really a non-nuanced and reactive thinker. Yes, race can be proxied but the UC system admits the top 9% of each school. The kid attended a wealthy, high-performing suburban school. Kids at his school don't benefit from racial proxies. The UCs didn't pass over applicants in his school for another school with lower-performing students. They passed over him and admitted the higher performing kids (based on GPA and rigor), which are predominantly Aisan. That is the system that CA adopted. Texas has the same system but admits more OOS students, especially UT Austin, and doesn't have an exploding college-age population compared to Texas.

I mean they can tell you're an Asian from your last name. It's not that hard.

So you are arguing that he was in the top 9% of the class and skipped over because of his Asian last name? The UCs choose one of the non-Asian students ( 10% Hispanic/30% white) at his school or one of the 9% of economically disadvantaged kids?

Okay

[Anonymous]

So far the feds and the parents have been unable to get runaway tuition inflation under control. The indentured servitude these colleges are inflicting on students is criminal. Feds are actually partly to blame thanks to almost unlimited student loans which should only be given to schools with a tuition cap and proven high salary grad rates to prevent this. So if the private sector can step in and call the tuition bluff finally then I’m thrilled. I hope more kids/companies follow suit and the colleges face a real value proposition reckoning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, switch his skin color to black and see what would happen.

Again, UC is race blind.

This is a joke. Race can be proxied in many different ways like in the recent TJ reform. You think people are that stupid?

You are really a non-nuanced and reactive thinker. Yes, race can be proxied but the UC system admits the top 9% of each school. The kid attended a wealthy, high-performing suburban school. Kids at his school don't benefit from racial proxies. The UCs didn't pass over applicants in his school for another school with lower-performing students. They passed over him and admitted the higher performing kids (based on GPA and rigor), which are predominantly Aisan. That is the system that CA adopted. Texas has the same system but admits more OOS students, especially UT Austin, and doesn't have an exploding college-age population compared to Texas.

I mean they can tell you're an Asian from your last name. It's not that hard.

Gunn HS is > 50% Asian. All you have to look at are the stats of how many of these Asian students were accepted to these schools.

[Anonymous]

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…the UC system admits the top 9% of each school.

To UC Merced. No high performing CA kid who slaved their high school lives away taking lots and lots of APs want to go to Merced. The UC system should change their admission procedure to where each high performing CA kid is offered a slot in one of the top UCs instead of offering some students 5 slots while none to others.