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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ummm, I’m at Google do you have any idea how hard it is to get hired as a L4 SWE at Google? The kid is obviously brilliant. L4s have an average salary of 250k/yr and 4 years work experience after grad school. We are talking hundreds of applicants for one L4 slot.

You people are spectacularly ignorant. Stick to counting beans in your cubicle, not pontificating on “big tech” (boomer word as well).

This exactly. And I want to add that the fact he got hired by google should negate the ideas suggested on this board, such as he lied about his app, he had bad essays and teacher recs and that his grades weren't stellar compared to classmates.

This kid is brilliant and his work must be "real" or google wouldn't have hired him (I am assuming the folks at google are smart enough to figure out if his father designed the program). I assume he had to pass numerous interviews and that his high school transcript was scrutinized.

The problem isn't Stanley, it is the college admission system that is the problem. I wish that this was the focus of this discussion instead of trying to rationalize why a kid like this got rejected from so many schools.[/quote]

It is not hard for me to both believe he is very talented and a great fit for Google, and that he also could have written crap essays and just "phoned in" his college applications.  In fact, that seems more likely as to what happened.

He likely would be bored at college and the real value is building his peer/social network...but I am not sure he needs that since he probably has a decent network in the SV area.

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I disagree. I think he was probably amazing. But there are a lot of amazing kids applying to those schools. Being rejected doesn’t mean you aren’t smart or amazing.[/quote]

Wasn’t the Valedictorian of his school which means if you separate out the “I started a business” element he was beaten out by several kids stats-wise at his own school.

The dissonance between the schools saying “well we actually want to see leadership and real world achievements from applicants” and then they reject a kid who started a real commercial business (not a tiny nonprofit or a lemonade stand) and could demonstrate skills mastery to the extend that Google onboarded him as a senior hire at age 18.

He will be fine, but would love to know what happened in those Admissions Committee meetings where they went “hard pass”.

They see a lot more applicants than I do so I’m unwilling to second guess them, but to outsiders it looks like we are missing part of the story. From both sides.[/quote]

Soft quotas on Asians even at UCs.[/quote]

Not true at all. Admissions at UC's don't know kids race or name.

The fact that he was rejected by UCs and CalPoly means he probably has some sort of disciplinary or behavorial issue. Those schools are not rejecting a kid with these stats and accomplishments.

There's definitely something else at play here that is not disclosed. [/quote]

Actually, yes they are rejecting kids with those stats, because everyone applying for CS/Eng has similar stats and resumes and most are getting rejected (because CS has single digit acceptance rates at most of those schools).  But I do agree that there is likely something off with his application that is not being disclosed.  Perhaps he did not fully invest in the essays and it shows....doesn't take much when an AO has 2-3 mins at most with the application and 95% of the applications have the same stats and overall resume---he somehow did not make himself stand out, or his essays and recommendations were weak[/quote]

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