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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]
Imagine the same kid with the same stats and achievements but only different skin color. I won't be surprised he would have gotten offers from all ivies plus all UCs. [/quote]

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