After the story of his son Stanley's journey from college rejection to Google went viral, Nan Zhong recruited over 100 volunteers to build coalitions, reach out to colleges and lawmakers to make admissions decisions more transparent.
The father of the Bay Area teen who was rejected by 16 colleges but hired by Google, is launching a movement to demand transparency in admissions.Nan Zhong says dozens of parents with similar stories have reached out to him since his son Stanley Zhong's journey from college rejection to Google went viral.about it. On Monday, Nan Zhong told ABC7 News that he has a plan to make college admissions less of a black box.
"Have an independent third-party that audit a subset, random subset of students' application and their results, and therefore the parents and the students can have some assurance that the process has integrity," Zhong said. When asked about the speculation that Stanley being Asian could have played into the admissions factor, Zhong says there's not enough data to draw a conclusion one way or another. However, he points out that in California, race cannot be a factor even before the Supreme Court rule, since the state passed a law in the 1990s that bans the use of race in college admission process.
He has recruited over 100 volunteers to build coalitions, reach out to colleges and lawmakers, organize rallies, as well as consider a ballot initiative or even lawsuit.Zhong, who is a software engineering manager himself, says he supports the practice of companies abandoning college education requirements for hiring. Google has no such requirement.
Zhong has this to say: "We'd like to find out if the college admission offices do have a practice of rejecting overqualified students. And what is the definition of overqualified? And why do they do that?"New short film 'Once Upon a Studio' debuts on Disney+
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