No need for either.
Both are jokes of leglislation created by political charlatans.
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Insane. No. Every business should have to abide by the civil rights act regarding protected classes.
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Equal treatment for all wrote:
According to the complaint, despite Stanley's academic credentials — a 3.97 unweighted GPA, a 1590 SAT score and significant achievements in computer science, including advancing to the Google Code Jam semifinals and winning second place in MIT Battlecode's global high school division — he was denied admission to Cornell and 15 other schools.
The lawsuit highlights that shortly after these rejections, Stanley received a full-time job offer from Google for a position typically requiring a Ph.D. or equivalent experience. This offer was extended after a rigorous evaluation process, including assessments of his technical skills and teamwork abilities.
In addition to his academic achievements, Stanley founded RabbitSign, an unlimited free e-signing service developed during the COVID-19 pandemic which he wrote about in his college essays. The platform was recognized by Amazon Web Services for its efficiency and security, leading to a feature in an upcoming case study by Amazon.The lawsuit is supported by Students Who Oppose Racial Discrimination, an organization founded in October 2024 by the Zhongs to help themselves and any willing families to challenge what it alleges are racially discriminatory admissions policies in higher education.
According to the SWORD website, numerous college admission counselors examined Stanley Zhong’s applications and essays after media outlets like CBS and USA Today began to cover his story. However, none of them were able to discern the cause for rejection, with some even offering to testify as expert witnesses.Does anyone believe that the sole reason he was rejected wasn't his race (as well as gender)? It's blindingly obvious. If he was a black female he'd have been accepted everywhere he applied.
How about if he was Jewish?
Probably my comment will be tagged and deleted as bigoted. It's okay to say
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litigation nation wrote:
No need for either.
Both are jokes of leglislation created by political charlatans.
Well there you go folks
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Racism Exists wrote:
A significant amount of racism exists in the United States. It always has and it most likely always will. There are numerous laws and lawsuits throughout our history to prove it.
Yes, and it rarely looks like what you've been programmed to believe it looks like.
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Equal treatment for all wrote:
Does anyone believe that the sole reason he was rejected wasn't his race (as well as gender)? It's blindingly obvious. If he was a black female he'd have been accepted everywhere he applied.
If he were a rich white kid with powerful connections he would have gotten in even if he were a poor student - just like happened with Dick Cheney at Yale, JFK at Harvard, George Bush at Yale and Jared Kush at Harvard.
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Seems like he should be one of Elon's DOGE people....
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Unfortunately, Asians aren't allowed entry into the 'House of Victimhood', with all its perks, so they mean absolutely nothing to Dims. Jews aren't either.
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Keeping It Real wrote:
Racism Exists wrote:
If i had the answers, we would be discussing this right now. This isn’t the first time in our history that Asians have been discriminated against. Think about the Japanese Americans being sent to Internment Camps during the World War, think about incidents to Islamic Americans after 9/11, of course the history of blacks in this country speaks for itself. As a result, lately we have seen backlash against White Americans in various ways. It’s a never ending cycle. Like gun laws, you can make all the laws you want. The fact of the matter is that there is a great deal of racism in the US that keeps certain people out of certain institutions, whether it be college or housing among other examples. What i will say is that these obstacles are overcome every day by people from various backgrounds but it still exist.
Democrat or Republican has little to do with it in my opinion. It’s a cultural thing in my humble opinion. Hell, look at some comments here or any other social media platform that allows anonymous postings.
Well said!
Racism is why Rachel Dolezal was booted out as president of the Spokane NAACP when it was found out that she was white.
Up until then, she was lauded as doing a great job, but when it came out she wasn't black, she was fired.
Perfect example of racist attitudes in the United States.
Since you brought her up.....
If she were a guy feeling the need to be a girl she would have been celebrated for being brave and strong.
She basically did the same exact thing (assuming a different characteristic) and was cancelled.
Still a head scratcher.
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Equal treatment for all wrote:
According to the complaint, despite Stanley's academic credentials — a 3.97 unweighted GPA, a 1590 SAT score and significant achievements in computer science, including advancing to the Google Code Jam semifinals and winning second place in MIT Battlecode's global high school division — he was denied admission to Cornell and 15 other schools.
The lawsuit highlights that shortly after these rejections, Stanley received a full-time job offer from Google for a position typically requiring a Ph.D. or equivalent experience. This offer was extended after a rigorous evaluation process, including assessments of his technical skills and teamwork abilities.
In addition to his academic achievements, Stanley founded RabbitSign, an unlimited free e-signing service developed during the COVID-19 pandemic which he wrote about in his college essays. The platform was recognized by Amazon Web Services for its efficiency and security, leading to a feature in an upcoming case study by Amazon.The lawsuit is supported by Students Who Oppose Racial Discrimination, an organization founded in October 2024 by the Zhongs to help themselves and any willing families to challenge what it alleges are racially discriminatory admissions policies in higher education.
According to the SWORD website, numerous college admission counselors examined Stanley Zhong’s applications and essays after media outlets like CBS and USA Today began to cover his story. However, none of them were able to discern the cause for rejection, with some even offering to testify as expert witnesses.Does anyone believe that the sole reason he was rejected wasn't his race (as well as gender)? It's blindingly obvious. If he was a black female he'd have been accepted everywhere he applied.
If he was a white male, he also would have been accepted everywhere. This level of discrimination is only against Asians.
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Colleges are weird, and there's a part of me that thinks they shouldn't have to abide these type of rules, but then they shouldn't get any aid from taxpayers.
I can understand why they'd take mediocre white kids whose parents are going to give a huge pile of money to the school. I can understand why they might think their instution can better serve it's purpose if x % of the students are black.
Do qualifications have to be strictly grade and test based? How you define who is the best person for a job/admissions spot? Even when hiring for a job, the qualifications that make somebody better or worse than another candidate aren't all completely objective.
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sbdgecdsefhs wrote:
Equal treatment for all wrote:
According to the complaint, despite Stanley's academic credentials — a 3.97 unweighted GPA, a 1590 SAT score and significant achievements in computer science, including advancing to the Google Code Jam semifinals and winning second place in MIT Battlecode's global high school division — he was denied admission to Cornell and 15 other schools.
The lawsuit highlights that shortly after these rejections, Stanley received a full-time job offer from Google for a position typically requiring a Ph.D. or equivalent experience. This offer was extended after a rigorous evaluation process, including assessments of his technical skills and teamwork abilities.
In addition to his academic achievements, Stanley founded RabbitSign, an unlimited free e-signing service developed during the COVID-19 pandemic which he wrote about in his college essays. The platform was recognized by Amazon Web Services for its efficiency and security, leading to a feature in an upcoming case study by Amazon.The lawsuit is supported by Students Who Oppose Racial Discrimination, an organization founded in October 2024 by the Zhongs to help themselves and any willing families to challenge what it alleges are racially discriminatory admissions policies in higher education.
According to the SWORD website, numerous college admission counselors examined Stanley Zhong’s applications and essays after media outlets like CBS and USA Today began to cover his story. However, none of them were able to discern the cause for rejection, with some even offering to testify as expert witnesses.Does anyone believe that the sole reason he was rejected wasn't his race (as well as gender)? It's blindingly obvious. If he was a black female he'd have been accepted everywhere he applied.
If he was a white male, he also would have been accepted everywhere. This level of discrimination is only against Asians.
I have a white sibling who was class valedictorian, very high SAT and national merit scholar, two sport college athlete, graduated as a Baker Scholar (top 5% but was actually top 1%) at HBS, became partner at MBB at 34, yet was rejected from their top college choice (ended up with a 3.9 in a hard major at a top LAC).
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something is wrong with the kid. a school or two and we can talk affirmative action. 15 schools and he did something deliberately in his application which set off admissions officials and earned him consistent "no"s. otherwise he's 100s of points above many of their averages and should have gotten in easy.
my guess: the kid probably put on his application that he co-founded a group set up to second guess and sue college admissions offices when he thinks they discriminated. my bet they prominently noted in the file the personal offense and lawsuit risk the kid posed, made clear it wasn't racial, and enjoyed stamping it "no."
nobody "has" to let you in, and he has to prove it was discrimination and not they simply didn't like him.
it's either that or he took easy remedial type classes beneath what they wanted for a CS major. odd to me to have a 3.97 unweighted and only gain 4 tenths in weighted. you should be like a 5.0 unless you took a bunch of easy classes that aren't honors classes and don't impress a CS admissions office.
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fjb - wrote:
Let me guess - the person made excuses for being rejected that blamed minorities?
I’m sure it has nothing to do with his personality and essays being poor. No, it’s the fault of others.
No personal responsibility, I tell ya.
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if you own a business or are in HR, the kid submitted a discrimination complaint, and the feds declined him instead of gave a right to sue letter. he couldn't back up what he's saying or they had an explanation that held water.
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Veee Eyee Teee wrote:
if you own a business or are in HR, the kid submitted a discrimination complaint, and the feds declined him instead of gave a right to sue letter. he couldn't back up what he's saying or they had an explanation that held water.
Which feds? Biden's? Or Trump's?
Trump's EEOC and DoJ is fighting for equal treatment for all.
The Trump administration has opened investigations into the admissions policies at Stanford University and three campuses within the University of California system, including UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine, the Department of Justice said on Thursday.
US attorney general Pam Bondi has directed the department’s civil rights division to investigate whether the schools’ policies comply with the 2023 US supreme court ruling that ended affirmative action in college admissions, the department said in a statement.
Since taking office in January, Donald Trump has attempted to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs that his administration says exclude white and Asian American students. The administration has warned schools and colleges they could lose federal money over “race-based preferences” in admissions, hiring, scholarships and all aspects of campus life.412 -
He might not have come off as lawsuit happy. He could have just said that he planned to keep focusing on his company full-time while he studied, or something that suggested he wasn't really serious about committing to his college education. Speculation, but it could have been enough to have 15 elite schools decide he wasn't the right person to fill one of a limited number of freshman slots.
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O JOY another boring computer programmer application
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further thought, at 4.4 weighted his class rank was probably meh
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UC apps were "either rejected or waitlisted." (so he's fudging a little saying he was outright turned down everywhere)
suing UC
only top 9% of his HS class (as i guessed) with near perfect grades, which tells me he wasn't taking many honors classes
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