This exceedingly bright, articulate, humble, and charming young man impresses me. A retired teacher (35 years in education), I am shocked and bewildered that too many universities did not recognise that Stanley is a diamond among glass. I wish him well at Google!
It was obvious that he didn't need to go to university to learn coding. Might that have been a reason??? Why would he spend four years in college knowing what he knows. I will most certainly be happy with this year's college selection process when people like Stanley will no longer blame their rejection from top universities on Affirmative Action.
I'm glad to see an Asian news anchor or journalist interviewing him (an Asian), so there could be less cringy cultural assumptions or misconceptions or biases brought in the conversation. The interview demonstrates how mature and intelligent he is. Hope the best for his future endeavors. I wish I could be as smart and accomplished as he is at that age.
4.42 GPA and 1590 SAT. I can accept that the top ranked computer science programs such as, MIT, Standford and U.C.Berkeley, the three co-number one ranked schools (by U.S.News) reject your application. But U.C.Davis and Cal Poly? They can't dream of having applicants of this qualification. Something is wrong!
@@farzana6676AA is no more if you are still blaming a banned program on blacks you just dislike blacks and if that’s the case meet us outside But you wont you would rather be a lying cowards
This is every parents nightmare. Stanley GPA is above 4. He scored a high SAT but still get a rejected from UC school. As a parent I wonder how a group of administration select a new student coming to their school. I went through a roller coaster last year with my daughter. She currently studying at Harvard and major in Bio Med Engineering. Good luck in your future road ahead.
@@danieltenorio3559or it could be millions of other students just like him with padded resume and transcript. Like a robot just grades turned out like an assembly line
Even if his dad has a role in getting him the job, for someone without a degree, at best he would have only gotten the entry level. The fact it’s not just goes to show they really valued his abilities.
I'm pretty sure it's because of his race, even though asians are considered minority, most of the the U.S population view them as middle class or higher. I'm sure if he was mexican or black with the same background and education he would definitely been accepted to most if not all of those colleges he applied for. College admissions are more based on race now education.
lOL literally all the other kids at his school probably had his stats and better.... he went to Palo Alto, one of the most competitive areas in the world. If it werent for raced based admissions (that help legacy WHITE people more), your schools would be filled with just filled with people by CA so lol good bye. nothing about him screams that he is more special than others.
Congratulations to this articulate and engaging young man and congratulations to Google for being smart enough to hire him even without a degree. His high academic credentials are top notch and it’s inexplicable that all those colleges rejected him. My daughter started at Google at age 23 but she also had 4 degrees by then.
Stanley is my kid's age and I found him to be inspirational in this interview. Wow, what a young man and what a story. I really wish him the best. Stanley probably got rejected from some of these schools because the schools want to protect their admissions yield. Stanley is at pretty much the top of what a student can aim for - if he is getting rejected 16/18 with his stats and EC activities, then it'd be good for other aspiring students to know what to aim for.
He was more than likely rejected because of his impressive resume. He didn't need college. What would be the point of him going to university if he already knew what he needed to know to get a coding job. It is disingenuous for Stanley to say that his father didn't have much to do with his being hired.
@@Bklyn112 Just being in the Bay Area makes a big difference. I had a friend who learned programming from DOS help files, but while he could make output that looked like a screen saver the kid of a programmer was compiling things into executables.
@@Bklyn112 he had been reached out to by google recruiters when he was just 13 years old and you strongly believe it was his father that got him into google?
Most likely, lower schools like UC Davis and Cal Poly didn't think someone like Stanley would actually attend their school even if accepted so in order to protect their yield %, they rejected him..
I feel bad for the younger generation these days. The SATs were watered down in the early 2000s and even banned from being considered in a lot of schools. Rampant grade inflation has made a 4.0 almost meaningless now. So the college entrance arms race turn to extracurriculars. Now every kid start clubs, volunteer all their time, and some even started viable companies. Now even some kid with a extensive history of volunteering plus knowing 2 musicals instruments and 4 languages is considered "boring" to admissions now. I can sense the frustration and anxiety coming from this generation.
@@TPM188maybe because they are studying the exam, padding their resume, and doing things only to get into college then become average in college because it was o but hey only did things to pad their application not to actually be great.
what makes playing an instrument or knowing a language better than other extracurricular skills? These activities are very much based on culture. I an assure you as an educator that a standardized test is not indicative of success in your career choice. Frankly, many 1st generation Asian students don't understand the concept of networking. They will stay at their desk working hard while other students go to the right parties events to meet people who can get them internships. If they get an internship, again they don't socialize but they do work hard. The socialization and being liked by firm partners is what gets you hired or into a great school.
And for those kids already working through high school, there isn’t time for extracurricular activities. It was rough for me in the 80s; I don’t know how working class kids get into college at all these days.
I dont think his Dad being at google played a role, i think his dad being a software engineer is what matters the most here. he learned code early and he absorbed it perfectly. the earlier you learn the better! he will be a senior engineer before he is 24.
Congratulations, Stanley! You deserve this opportunity with Google. You are right, going to university should not be a guessing game. Your hard work and qualifications should speak for themselves. I believe it’s time for Google to set up its own school/university!
He's obviously very intelligent, articulate, mature, etc. It appears to me he didn't get into those 16 top colleges is because he's another bright Asian student wanting to major in computer science. At least for the private universities he applied to if he said his mom had him when she was 16 and his dad was in prison and he is one of 12 siblings and african-american (along with his 4.4GPA and 1590/1600 SAT) he would have gotten into many more universities no question.
You know the colleges may have done him a great favor and saved his family many hundreds of thousands of dollars. The college value proposition seems to get weaker every day.
I'm very happy for him. Sometimes life deals us with an unexpected path, and we'll find pleasant surprises. An unconventional path may not be a bad one.
That's not the point. The point was a level playing field. They deprived this kid of his chance to go to college and have that experience just because he's Asian and his only sin was that he was brilliant, worked hard and had good grades. Wrong is wrong.
GPA and college get you into a good job position. After a few years your college and GPA don't mean much, everyone know your worth. He is actually 4 or more years ahead of the those who went to college, can damn well afford a condo or house without heavy school loans by the time the others graduated. This kid is more than just book smart, he already started various ventures/businesses. I just don't understand how many college recruiters so utterly stupid and let this one go.
@@Bklyn112 I know recruiters couldn't tell the difference from a structural engineering major to a civil engineering major, some even worse. Could you? Or could be Jeremy Lin syndrome and later regret it.
@@ThatsOPV Nor do they need to know how to code. The point is they knew that he didn't need college. His father had been grooming him for this sort of move from a very young age. He used his connections working for Google. If Stanley had gone to college, he would not have gotten all of the publicity that he's now getting. It was probably never the plan anyway.
What a supremely talented person. IMHO If he were in the “right” category, he wouldn’t have just gotten into any college. He would have been highly sought after.
regardless if he got a job at Google or not, he has excellent speaking skills. If he had spent 4-5 years in college, not sure how much more the school can prepare him vs. 4-5 years at Google.... Excellent job Stanley....
Stanley is probably smarter than many of the professors at these schools so why should resources be wasted? Years ago my cousin’s husband without a College degree taught computer programing at a community college. He took classes there at the same time to earn his degree and graduated the same day his son graduated high school.
Its about time we have schools that teach highschool kids how certify for office jobs. Im used to pro college. But corruption like this just proves that ppl are right. College is not worth it anymore. Its very sad that kids dont have that many other choices.
He seems genuinely talented but something tells me that his dad working at Google played a factor in getting in at least by having insider knowledge and knowing what to do to improve your chances. I worked at Nvidia and several high schoolers got internships because their dads worked there
Stanley, thank you for telling your story on media. It’s the best decision. You brought the dark side of the college admissions to light. You were rejected because of your skin color.
The colleges in the US that's still using the old methodology to admit great students into their school (like this fantastic boy Stanley), the so called professionals that's doing this approval that's not transparent at all, need to rethink if there are something needs to be changed fundamentally for the future generations. If nothing is being done, I feel like the US education system might be missing out super great individuals that will be successful if they are being accepted, but got rejected without any reason. The world in the future is changing, very tech and AI related, education system needs to be able to support this. Personally, I feel like the "AP" to get extra credit and using sports to assess students entry, are the most gray area and not well defined at all
Congrat. Bill Gate never finished his undergraduate. There are many thing you can self taught or learn by experience. It’s regreshing to see a 19 years old can act mature in our society, which many are lacking.
So surprised in the video that a commentor said that he didn't get accepted into 16 colleges because "Book smarts ain't everything"? Isn't that the point of sending kids to college so they can be "book smart" when they graduate? I fear for the future of the world if our coders and engineers aren't "book smart" when designing multi-million dollar technology products.
Understand. Though people who're really passionate about coding can teach themselves; a lot of coding skills come by doing actual projects, not simply theoretical knowledge. Also, software companies have protocols to catch bugs (e.g., they often have extensive testing processes, they hire testers and design edge case tests, they do extensive user testing); so, software developers' mistakes usually end up not affecting the product.
What a dumb statement. Not every major/degee/certificate etc is about the conventional "hard, book smart subjects" like stem. Some are creative like art and some are mostly physical skill based like culinary or dancing. You bat eaters think everything in life should be about STEM these days.
@@ecor150 So artistic people aren't "book smart"? That's a dumb statement in itself. My kid is artistic and loves to draw, fantastic artist and enjoys reading and science. She plans on going into art design. It's so annoying that people think "book smart" is limited to only STEM.
I think working at google is better than going to college anyway. Good on him. All the other intangibles of going to college can most likely be pursued elsewhere and more "authentically". The guy is quite fortunate to have family and natural talents/inclination to be able to skip college and go straight to google.
I am happy for him. Meanwhile, I hope ED can investigate into those unethical colleges that choose not to comply with the court order. We need qualified students in our colleges.
What are you talking about? Not every smart kid is guaranteed a seat at a top university. They can't blame affirmative action or quotas anymore. There is no transparency in life. There are 1000's of Stanley's on university campuses all over the country. Stanley's trump card was that his father worked for Google.
Stanley. I just want to say congratulations!!! Nowadays, it's not all about going to college after high school to get a high paying job. It's the experience and dedication that matters!!! You will get that and more with Google and attend their classes to learn what they have to offer. At a time where people in the tech world are getting laid off everywhere, you are getting hired. That's special and you have the talent that this company recognizes. Have fun but save your money for the future. Continue to learn and grow. Best of all, you are close to family and I know your family, especially your parents are very proud of you!!! Best of all, no college tuition, no student loans, so enjoy your new job!!! Would love to hear your story as you continue to work for Google!!! Congrats again🎉🎉🎉🎉
Same year my kid had little better stats and no ECs. He is also from a top public high school in California. He got admitted to multiple T20 colleges and finally accepted Stanford.
I appreciate that he's revealing a realistic side of high school students, highlighting their concerns about studying towards college admissions. It's not just about Hollywood teen drama.
Get used to hearing "no" Stanley, it will happen throughout your life. Transparency in decision making is in many cases something decision makers do not want to share. So for example, should you, in the future, make decisions regarding hiring people for employment, you will likely not want to be totally transparent about why you choose not to hire some candidates. Doing so, in many cases, will absolutely open you up lawsuits being filed against you.
Being Asian is very competitive. My brother is very smart. He was compared and putted down by our own relatives. I gave up schooling when I was young. I know I can’t get into Harvard or MIT. I just rushed thru school and worked my way up from blue collar work and now I am a manager at xxxx.
A future Y Combinator founder if I ever saw one! Plus, his dad is also a Y Combinator alum. Stanley - doubt you will ever see this comment, but if you do and ever want to talk about Y Combinator, hit me up! I’m from YC S18
A good interview. There is never a perfect way to set up a perfect college admission requirements, however, put effort to build a better and fair system should think big they is how do we want our country’s future to be, to educated best qualified quality leaders or not?
I wonder how many wealthy families purchased their way in through wealth affirmative action. Money can buy almost anything. Look at the stats for the school.
Hope this becomes a trend. Have an Indian fried who is a successful software engineer and he told me that when he received his engineering degree in India, he only took engineering and math classes, no social justice, art, literature, or none engineering classes and graduated quickly.
That's how Indians run the bay area in tech and medicine. They go to school there where it's straight to the point, while US students here are doing 8 years of med school while the Indians are only doing 4. Two years of every Bachelor's degree is filled with non-sense that has nothing to with your major.
@@savabagwidow9554it’s only one dimensional if you ignore the rest of a person’s life. He may also be an avid reader, taking care of a grandparent, babysitting for nephews or nieces, and being a large part of the social fabric that is typical and common in India and leads to a well-rounded person. By contrast, I’ve seen many “multi-dimensional” westerners who lack social skills, never socialize with anyone outside their own generation, never babysat, don’t know how to use a matchstick, can’t do laundry, can’t cook, nor care for elderly, spend large chunks of their day doom scrolling on social media, spiral into existential crisis every week, and need therapy.
As a Chinese, I am happy that the Admission Officer in the 16 renowned universities didn’t get fooled by this kid and his father. I am a software engineering manager, I know the workload for a digital signature app. It is impossible for a kid to complete it in three years, no matter how smart he is. Also the more suspicious, there is no overlaps between the digital signature app and the life of a normal high school kid, it’s impossible for him to think of this idea to do his startup. As for the two coding competitions he won, both are online ones. When Google coding competition final requires showing up on the spot, there are a lot of people gave up at Semi. Stanley is just one of them. To me, his resume is just questionable. if I am the Admission office, I will pass his application, because he and his dad lack of integrity.
If he was helping his family with business documents, he might have thought about a digital signing software. I don't think we should be quick to believe he's faking it.
@@xingzheli7431 the startup is only questionable, nobody will have the proof. But you can’t deny that all his resume content coincided with his dad’s working content, including the two AWS competition. It is his responsibility to tell the Admission Officer how much he did, not listed all his family did. Also, most kids are strong in coding will perform well in math competition too, but Stanley score zero on Math competition. This is why his resume has too many questions and not persuasive to anybody know how things work. As for Google’s job, if you have a good referral, it is not that difficult. Also he is not working in a development team. It was confirmed that he works at the sales team on customer relationship management and he is the first and only software engineer in his team. Now you can understand his job is not that hard-core at all.
What is so special about a digital signature app that it takes three years? I wrote video games, an interpreter for a new language, soccer robot software, etc when I was in high school, with each project taking 1-3 months.
Given his social-minded nature, I hope he creates an app that encourages the government, colleges, and companies to enhance transparency in their enrolment and hiring practices.
I had rejections until Dr. Mitchell Swartz gave me a break to pursue a career at MIT of Cambridge, MA so for you at opposite end of North America end of North America is to stay on course given how your west coast region of North America has high tech industries of their own.
Congratulations to being hired. Whether colleges or jobs, most people don’t expect specifics about why they were rejected, even if they ask. Also, with automated application parsing, some do not even get to consideration. Another Reasons that people were rejected in the past and nowadays: Prior to government quotas, there was the default quota.
Why did Stanley even apply for the schools like UC Davis & Cal Ploy? They will reject him out of fear of being rejected by overqualified candidates like Stanley no matter what. 😂
Does no one else find it suspicious that he got rejected from California state schools, or schools like UW or University of Wisconsin-Madison (which has 60% acceptance rate)? I can understand from schools like Stanford/MIT/Ivies but with his stats his rejections are beyond me.
The comment section is toxic sadly with what a select few are saying about another group when it shouldn't be about that (bigots are everywhere sadly). People go to college for the job that he has, etc. Congrats to him.
Dude... Asians need to be stopped from getting any smarter than they already are. One day they will turn against you and prove that eugenics theory is correct. They'll begin eradicating anyone who doesn't pass a threshold of intelligence from society. They'll even turn against us the democrats.
I’m wondering if the colleges rejected him due to “diversity.” Now it looks like the college’s loss that he got hired at Google. Great job Stanley. You’ll do very well in life. Don’t worry about college anymore. You save yourself a lot of money and headache!
@@chenitabest4969 google’s interview process is very rigorous. Many people with experience have a hard time passing. Google reviewed his code on GIT which I’m guessing impressed them in the first place.
Apply the same rejected schools again and see what happens. I am very sorry to see your rejections. But keep your faith. My two daughters went to Stanford and UCLA.
There’s millions of people just like him with padded resumes and transcripts. Money for tutors and extra curricular easily gives you access to higher grades and success. He’s no different than the assembly line of students from China, just have money to pay for tutors that teach you the exams.
I don’t think you know what google code jam is(the shirt he is wearing). Its very hard to "teach" competitive programming, especially at such a young age. He is very very good even compared to university students. If anything, I'd argue his exam scores are the least impressive thing he was able to achieve.
@@harryzhu1074 I’m a software engineer, there’s plenty of assembled guys like him. Money always get you through the door, tutors props you up further. Just ask all those rich people who paid for people to take their kids exams, paid for volunteer spots, and padded their resume at family owned businesses
The U.S. should consider educating our best and brightest as a matter of National Security (as many of our Adversaries do) We can't afford to let Brilliant Minds go to waste. How many Ivy League Schools have unqualified students taking up space because Mommy and Daddy are Wealthy Donors to our Colleges and Universities? Google's gain is our loss. I hope he thrives there.
Black is a race not an ethnicity. It is also a color and a social construct. Affirmative Action is gone in its old form so stop making excuses. You clearly don't know the difference between a race, ethnicity and nationality in 2023. His dad might have some pull, and I wouldn't expect him to say if his dad did. It's who you know not always what you know.
Another abnormal thing, the kids who are good at coding, are usually do pretty well in math competitions. But Stanley recorded zero on math competitions. The two coding competitions in his resume are both online match before finals. So it is questionable that whether he did the test by himself online too!
Asians need to be stopped from getting any smarter than they already are. One day they will turn against you and prove that eugenics theory is correct. They'll begin eradicating anyone who doesn't pass a threshold of intelligence from society.
@@deerbeau well, if you are really computer Science degree,you won’t say these things. nowadays, the Admission Officer give a shit to the coding competition, because every kids won some coding competition. But AO will think highly of the winner of math competition, since it’s more rare. That’s why Stanley is not as excellent as he and his family think. University of California has a very fierce competition in getting in, especially computer science program he only applied for.
This kid is overprivileged. That is why he learned so much. I'm sure all you can do what he can do if you were also "privileged". Wait, do you guys even learned algebra 2?
So in the spring he was rejected by MIT, University of Michigan,Stanford, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly SLO, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, University of Illinois, Georgia Tech, UC Berkeley, Caltech, University of Wisconsin and University of Washington. Really😏. What did they see that caused them to say "no thank you" so consistently? We need an IN DEPTH investigation! I'm going to be following this one. 👀🧢
How blatant the kid is? He not only violate the age restriction of Google JAM. Google also restricts any body affiliated with Google employee from the competition, but his dad is a Google employee. If you ask me why you are rejected, I should say your resume is full of questionable experiences, in which it is difficult to separate the portion you completed and the portion your dad did.
@@jwpd359 go back and check. It is confirmed that his dad is a software manager in google, since Stanley participated in the google coding competition for the first year. I hope Human Resources in Google get involved and investigate how this kid and his dad violated google’s rule. It is very unethical to do what the company has already forbidden you to do.
Wow, what a mature young man. In a few years, he will be the hiring manager to interview his classmates who went to Stanford and Berkeley.
This exceedingly bright, articulate, humble, and charming young man impresses me. A retired teacher (35 years in education), I am shocked and bewildered that too many universities did not recognise that Stanley is a diamond among glass. I wish him well at Google!
he just so happened to be on the wrong side of AA, unfortunately
@@101bothunterthey can’t accept every student with a padded resume
It was obvious that he didn't need to go to university to learn coding. Might that have been a reason??? Why would he spend four years in college knowing what he knows. I will most certainly be happy with this year's college selection process when people like Stanley will no longer blame their rejection from top universities on Affirmative Action.
@@101bothunter He didn't get into the California schools either. California schools don't have AA.
@@junicornplays980 cool
I'm glad to see an Asian news anchor or journalist interviewing him (an Asian), so there could be less cringy cultural assumptions or misconceptions or biases brought in the conversation. The interview demonstrates how mature and intelligent he is. Hope the best for his future endeavors. I wish I could be as smart and accomplished as he is at that age.
I can feel Stanley's passion for coding through this interview.
Great stuff, and congrats Stanley!
I’m happy for him 🎉 screw those colleges, he’s winning 🥇
I feel Standley’s dad did a great job of teaching him the skills to be successful in tech. I glad he was able to get hired at google.
Mf taught himself
yeah yeah yeah. it's all dad. Like every kid who do drugs is because their dada teach them the skill to do drugs?
or be hoes, they momma taught them to be hoes 🤣🤣@@gooderlinsen
4.42 GPA and 1590 SAT. I can accept that the top ranked computer science programs such as, MIT, Standford and U.C.Berkeley, the three co-number one ranked schools (by U.S.News) reject your application. But U.C.Davis and Cal Poly? They can't dream of having applicants of this qualification. Something is wrong!
Sneak AA??
@kimchi_taco it's over stop blaming black people.
@@boomboom141 It's definitely AA. Any Latino or Black with that GPA would walk into any college in America.
@@farzana6676AA is no more if you are still blaming a banned program on blacks you just dislike blacks and if that’s the case meet us outside But you wont you would rather be a lying cowards
This is every parents nightmare. Stanley GPA is above 4. He scored a high SAT but still get a rejected from UC school. As a parent I wonder how a group of administration select a new student coming to their school. I went through a roller coaster last year with my daughter. She currently studying at Harvard and major in Bio Med Engineering. Good luck in your future road ahead.
It’s bec of “diversity “ he should of changed his race and put trans lmao!
@@danieltenorio3559or it could be millions of other students just like him with padded resume and transcript. Like a robot just grades turned out like an assembly line
@@danieltenorio3559 Nope it's not. Not this time around. Can't blame Affirmative Action any longer.
sure@@Bklyn112
@@doglover7675 Sure is correct! You asked for it. You got it. Now go bark up another tree.
If I were his father, I laughed all the way to the bank. At least $80K to $240K saved just from tuition alone.
Those colleges might find out he was “the one they let get away” and now it’s “eat your hearts out” time.
He sounds very mature for his age. Of course, he is very intelligent!
Never give up or surrender.
Congrats to Stanley! Happy for him, Hope he has a bright future ahead of him
He seems like a very a bright young man with a bright future and very passionate about what he likes. I think he will be entrepreneur in the future.
Even if his dad has a role in getting him the job, for someone without a degree, at best he would have only gotten the entry level. The fact it’s not just goes to show they really valued his abilities.
He has someone who knows the inner workings on how to get a job there and how to prepare, it's no surprise that he's not entry level.
I'm pretty sure it's because of his race, even though asians are considered minority, most of the the U.S population view them as middle class or higher. I'm sure if he was mexican or black with the same background and education he would definitely been accepted to most if not all of those colleges he applied for. College admissions are more based on race now education.
lOL literally all the other kids at his school probably had his stats and better.... he went to Palo Alto, one of the most competitive areas in the world. If it werent for raced based admissions (that help legacy WHITE people more), your schools would be filled with just filled with people by CA so lol good bye. nothing about him screams that he is more special than others.
There are a bunch of Asian kids with scores, like his and are doing the same thing as him. Race now you're funny. Have you even looked at statistics?
What statistics? You mean stereotyping, which is what you're doing.@@dr.migueltorrezedd8651
Congratulations to this articulate and engaging young man and congratulations to Google for being smart enough to hire him even without a degree. His high academic credentials are top notch and it’s inexplicable that all those colleges rejected him.
My daughter started at Google at age 23 but she also had 4 degrees by then.
Wow! Very impressive… congratulations to your daughter 🎊 ❤
😭😂😂 apparently she should have been rejected blame others and she would have been hired 😊
Stanley is my kid's age and I found him to be inspirational in this interview. Wow, what a young man and what a story. I really wish him the best. Stanley probably got rejected from some of these schools because the schools want to protect their admissions yield. Stanley is at pretty much the top of what a student can aim for - if he is getting rejected 16/18 with his stats and EC activities, then it'd be good for other aspiring students to know what to aim for.
He was more than likely rejected because of his impressive resume. He didn't need college. What would be the point of him going to university if he already knew what he needed to know to get a coding job. It is disingenuous for Stanley to say that his father didn't have much to do with his being hired.
@@Bklyn112 Just being in the Bay Area makes a big difference. I had a friend who learned programming from DOS help files, but while he could make output that looked like a screen saver the kid of a programmer was compiling things into executables.
@@edwardmitchell6581 Probably doing whatever it is that you said he was doing at 7!
@@Bklyn112 he had been reached out to by google recruiters when he was just 13 years old and you strongly believe it was his father that got him into google?
Most likely, lower schools like UC Davis and Cal Poly didn't think someone like Stanley would actually attend their school even if accepted so in order to protect their yield %, they rejected him..
I feel bad for the younger generation these days. The SATs were watered down in the early 2000s and even banned from being considered in a lot of schools. Rampant grade inflation has made a 4.0 almost meaningless now. So the college entrance arms race turn to extracurriculars. Now every kid start clubs, volunteer all their time, and some even started viable companies. Now even some kid with a extensive history of volunteering plus knowing 2 musicals instruments and 4 languages is considered "boring" to admissions now. I can sense the frustration and anxiety coming from this generation.
Asian applications only.
@@TPM188maybe because they are studying the exam, padding their resume, and doing things only to get into college then become average in college because it was o but hey only did things to pad their application not to actually be great.
what makes playing an instrument or knowing a language better than other extracurricular skills? These activities are very much based on culture. I an assure you as an educator that a standardized test is not indicative of success in your career choice. Frankly, many 1st generation Asian students don't understand the concept of networking. They will stay at their desk working hard while other students go to the right parties events to meet people who can get them internships. If they get an internship, again they don't socialize but they do work hard. The socialization and being liked by firm partners is what gets you hired or into a great school.
And for those kids already working through high school, there isn’t time for extracurricular activities. It was rough for me in the 80s; I don’t know how working class kids get into college at all these days.
I dont think his Dad being at google played a role, i think his dad being a software engineer is what matters the most here. he learned code early and he absorbed it perfectly. the earlier you learn the better! he will be a senior engineer before he is 24.
Congratulations, Stanley! You deserve this opportunity with Google. You are right, going to university should not be a guessing game. Your hard work and qualifications should speak for themselves. I believe it’s time for Google to set up its own school/university!
I can't imagine these schools will ever be transparent in the admission process.
He's obviously very intelligent, articulate, mature, etc. It appears to me he didn't get into those 16 top colleges is because he's another bright Asian student wanting to major in computer science. At least for the private universities he applied to if he said his mom had him when she was 16 and his dad was in prison and he is one of 12 siblings and african-american (along with his 4.4GPA and 1590/1600 SAT) he would have gotten into many more universities no question.
So HAPPY for Stanley, parents super proud. CHEERS! Stanley!
Congratulations Stanley! You're a wonderful young man. =) Great questions from news anchor Kristen.
You know the colleges may have done him a great favor and saved his family many hundreds of thousands of dollars. The college value proposition seems to get weaker every day.
I will be really happy if my son get an offer from Google after graduating next year
I'm very happy for him. Sometimes life deals us with an unexpected path, and we'll find pleasant surprises. An unconventional path may not be a bad one.
That's not the point. The point was a level playing field. They deprived this kid of his chance to go to college and have that experience just because he's Asian and his only sin was that he was brilliant, worked hard and had good grades. Wrong is wrong.
GPA and college get you into a good job position. After a few years your college and GPA don't mean much, everyone know your worth. He is actually 4 or more years ahead of the those who went to college, can damn well afford a condo or house without heavy school loans by the time the others graduated. This kid is more than just book smart, he already started various ventures/businesses. I just don't understand how many college recruiters so utterly stupid and let this one go.
How is the college recruiter stupid if they know that he already knows what their teaching?
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I know recruiters couldn't tell the difference from a structural engineering major to a civil engineering major, some even worse. Could you? Or could be Jeremy Lin syndrome and later regret it.
recruiters usually dont know code.... they care about culture fit......
@@ThatsOPV Nor do they need to know how to code. The point is they knew that he didn't need college. His father had been grooming him for this sort of move from a very young age. He used his connections working for Google. If Stanley had gone to college, he would not have gotten all of the publicity that he's now getting. It was probably never the plan anyway.
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And this is why universities are so woke and nasty. ie, Evergreen State College, Bret Weinstein.
What a supremely talented person. IMHO If he were in the “right” category, he wouldn’t have just gotten into any college. He would have been highly sought after.
regardless if he got a job at Google or not, he has excellent speaking skills. If he had spent 4-5 years in college, not sure how much more the school can prepare him vs. 4-5 years at Google.... Excellent job Stanley....
This reporter hosted an excellent interview!
His parents did a GREAT job raising him. He’s confident and very mature for his age.
His dad did a great job helping him get the job. Rich parents have more resources so this is classic rich kid story.
@@baboon_baboon_baboonclassic rich kid got accepted to Ivy because their parents donate
Stanley is probably smarter than many of the professors at these schools so why should resources be wasted? Years ago my cousin’s husband without a College degree taught computer programing at a community college. He took classes there at the same time to earn his degree and graduated the same day his son graduated high school.
I thought a professional dosent start and end with a “ uhm “
Excellent interview!
Stanley, congrats on your success!
Thank you Stanley for sharing your journey, you have inspired us newbie programmers lol
Its about time we have schools that teach highschool kids how certify for office jobs. Im used to pro college. But corruption like this just proves that ppl are right. College is not worth it anymore. Its very sad that kids dont have that many other choices.
Interviewer is a pro 💯
-"Your father has the same position at the same company. Is that a coincidence, Stanley?"
- 🥴😬🤫
He seems genuinely talented but something tells me that his dad working at Google played a factor in getting in at least by having insider knowledge and knowing what to do to improve your chances. I worked at Nvidia and several high schoolers got internships because their dads worked there
Stanley, thank you for telling your story on media. It’s the best decision. You brought the dark side of the college admissions to light. You were rejected because of your skin color.
Or because there were millions of other students with the same padded transcript and robot created profile
His dad helped him get the job so….
@@Firecracker876lmfao dont talk sense to them
Proud of him! Keep up the great work and keep pushing!
The colleges in the US that's still using the old methodology to admit great students into their school (like this fantastic boy Stanley), the so called professionals that's doing this approval that's not transparent at all, need to rethink if there are something needs to be changed fundamentally for the future generations.
If nothing is being done, I feel like the US education system might be missing out super great individuals that will be successful if they are being accepted, but got rejected without any reason.
The world in the future is changing, very tech and AI related, education system needs to be able to support this. Personally, I feel like the "AP" to get extra credit and using sports to assess students entry, are the most gray area and not well defined at all
Since colleges grade on a curve, I think the colleges were afraid that he would raise the grading curve by too much. That's why he was rejected.
Congrat. Bill Gate never finished his undergraduate. There are many thing you can self taught or learn by experience. It’s regreshing to see a 19 years old can act mature in our society, which many are lacking.
"Look kid, I know you have a 4.2 GPA and scored a 1590 on the SAT, but your team was only second place at the MIT event"
So surprised in the video that a commentor said that he didn't get accepted into 16 colleges because "Book smarts ain't everything"? Isn't that the point of sending kids to college so they can be "book smart" when they graduate? I fear for the future of the world if our coders and engineers aren't "book smart" when designing multi-million dollar technology products.
Understand. Though people who're really passionate about coding can teach themselves; a lot of coding skills come by doing actual projects, not simply theoretical knowledge. Also, software companies have protocols to catch bugs (e.g., they often have extensive testing processes, they hire testers and design edge case tests, they do extensive user testing); so, software developers' mistakes usually end up not affecting the product.
What a dumb statement. Not every major/degee/certificate etc is about the conventional "hard, book smart subjects" like stem. Some are creative like art and some are mostly physical skill based like culinary or dancing.
You bat eaters think everything in life should be about STEM these days.
@@ecor150 So artistic people aren't "book smart"? That's a dumb statement in itself. My kid is artistic and loves to draw, fantastic artist and enjoys reading and science. She plans on going into art design. It's so annoying that people think "book smart" is limited to only STEM.
@@ecor150 "Bat eaters" nice touch. Definitely defines your ignorance.
@GemelleChannel but yall bat eaters are screaming he should get in only based on scores and grades which are literally the two things society define as "book smart". What if this kid is boring as ƒṳ©Ḳ and didn't do any other $Ĥ!+ besides a phony company and made up tutor hours. There's more to grades and scores. Yall are dumb and ignorant as ƒṳ©Ḳ.
Your people and culture looks down on anything not "book smart" or stem related.
And ƒṳ©Ḳ yall bat eaters. You guys are anti Black and Brown and are the most racist people on the planet. There are so many comments on other videos of this story where yall are blaming Black and Brown folks on this. Aren't you guys suppose to be smart and already know that affirmative action is gone and the WHITE WOMEN benefit most from it, that most legacy are WHITE. But keep blaming Black and Brown folks on this. I guess yall will continue to eat bats and spread diseases also.
I think working at google is better than going to college anyway. Good on him. All the other intangibles of going to college can most likely be pursued elsewhere and more "authentically". The guy is quite fortunate to have family and natural talents/inclination to be able to skip college and go straight to google.
Not alot you can do these days fresh out of school with a bachelors degree anyway.
I am happy for him. Meanwhile, I hope ED can investigate into those unethical colleges that choose not to comply with the court order. We need qualified students in our colleges.
What are you talking about? Not every smart kid is guaranteed a seat at a top university. They can't blame affirmative action or quotas anymore. There is no transparency in life. There are 1000's of Stanley's on university campuses all over the country. Stanley's trump card was that his father worked for Google.
Stanley. I just want to say congratulations!!! Nowadays, it's not all about going to college after high school to get a high paying job. It's the experience and dedication that matters!!! You will get that and more with Google and attend their classes to learn what they have to offer. At a time where people in the tech world are getting laid off everywhere, you are getting hired. That's special and you have the talent that this company recognizes. Have fun but save your money for the future. Continue to learn and grow. Best of all, you are close to family and I know your family, especially your parents are very proud of you!!! Best of all, no college tuition, no student loans, so enjoy your new job!!! Would love to hear your story as you continue to work for Google!!! Congrats again🎉🎉🎉🎉
Same year my kid had little better stats and no ECs. He is also from a top public high school in California. He got admitted to multiple T20 colleges and finally accepted Stanford.
So what are we blaming now instead of affirmative action for this kid's failure to get in to schools?
Another Asian took his spot?
I appreciate that he's revealing a realistic side of high school students, highlighting their concerns about studying towards college admissions. It's not just about Hollywood teen drama.
Admission transparency is needed for all colleges. Racial discretionary is too obvious.
Get used to hearing "no" Stanley, it will happen throughout your life. Transparency in decision making is in many cases something decision makers do not want to share. So for example, should you, in the future, make decisions regarding hiring people for employment, you will likely not want to be totally transparent about why you choose not to hire some candidates. Doing so, in many cases, will absolutely open you up lawsuits being filed against you.
Go Stanley. I hope he attends a C level University and helps build their brand.
Congratulations Stanley very happy for you and your family 😂😂😂
The reality is that he didn't need college at all.
Being Asian is very competitive. My brother is very smart. He was compared and putted down by our own relatives. I gave up schooling when I was young. I know I can’t get into Harvard or MIT. I just rushed thru school and worked my way up from blue collar work and now I am a manager at xxxx.
A future Y Combinator founder if I ever saw one! Plus, his dad is also a Y Combinator alum. Stanley - doubt you will ever see this comment, but if you do and ever want to talk about Y Combinator, hit me up! I’m from YC S18
A good interview. There is never a perfect way to set up a perfect college admission requirements, however, put effort to build a better and fair system should think big they is how do we want our country’s future to be, to educated best qualified quality leaders or not?
I really want to know why/how they can reject his application?
Really.. An important fact his Dad works at Google!! Got it 🙄🤔
I wonder how many wealthy families purchased their way in through wealth affirmative action. Money can buy almost anything. Look at the stats for the school.
Hope this becomes a trend. Have an Indian fried who is a successful software engineer and he told me that when he received his engineering degree in India, he only took engineering and math classes, no social justice, art, literature, or none engineering classes and graduated quickly.
That's how Indians run the bay area in tech and medicine. They go to school there where it's straight to the point, while US students here are doing 8 years of med school while the Indians are only doing 4. Two years of every Bachelor's degree is filled with non-sense that has nothing to with your major.
Lol what a way to be one dimensional......
@@savabagwidow9554exactly imagine an engineering without civics or ethics when creating things ….
@@savabagwidow9554it’s only one dimensional if you ignore the rest of a person’s life. He may also be an avid reader, taking care of a grandparent, babysitting for nephews or nieces, and being a large part of the social fabric that is typical and common in India and leads to a well-rounded person.
By contrast, I’ve seen many “multi-dimensional” westerners who lack social skills, never socialize with anyone outside their own generation, never babysat, don’t know how to use a matchstick, can’t do laundry, can’t cook, nor care for elderly, spend large chunks of their day doom scrolling on social media, spiral into existential crisis every week, and need therapy.
Go Stanley, way to bounce back show them what you got. 🎉🎉🎉
As a Chinese, I am happy that the Admission Officer in the 16 renowned universities didn’t get fooled by this kid and his father.
I am a software engineering manager, I know the workload for a digital signature app. It is impossible for a kid to complete it in three years, no matter how smart he is. Also the more suspicious, there is no overlaps between the digital signature app and the life of a normal high school kid, it’s impossible for him to think of this idea to do his startup. As for the two coding competitions he won, both are online ones. When Google coding competition final requires showing up on the spot, there are a lot of people gave up at Semi. Stanley is just one of them.
To me, his resume is just questionable. if I am the Admission office, I will pass his application, because he and his dad lack of integrity.
If he was helping his family with business documents, he might have thought about a digital signing software. I don't think we should be quick to believe he's faking it.
@@xingzheli7431 the startup is only questionable, nobody will have the proof. But you can’t deny that all his resume content coincided with his dad’s working content, including the two AWS competition. It is his responsibility to tell the Admission Officer how much he did, not listed all his family did. Also, most kids are strong in coding will perform well in math competition too, but Stanley score zero on Math competition. This is why his resume has too many questions and not persuasive to anybody know how things work.
As for Google’s job, if you have a good referral, it is not that difficult. Also he is not working in a development team. It was confirmed that he works at the sales team on customer relationship management and he is the first and only software engineer in his team. Now you can understand his job is not that hard-core at all.
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His dad also works at Google.
What is so special about a digital signature app that it takes three years? I wrote video games, an interpreter for a new language, soccer robot software, etc when I was in high school, with each project taking 1-3 months.
The school needs to be transparent who they selected and their stats and ECs.
Given his social-minded nature, I hope he creates an app that encourages the government, colleges, and companies to enhance transparency in their enrolment and hiring practices.
I see why they rejected him. He already got his things together and colleges are for those who want to be successful..
This is happening to everyone in this state.
I had rejections until Dr. Mitchell Swartz gave me a break to pursue a career at MIT of Cambridge, MA so for you at opposite end of North America end of North America is to stay on course given how your west coast region of North America has high tech industries of their own.
he said he was asian that plays video games, he's hired
Congratulations to being hired.
Whether colleges or jobs, most people don’t expect specifics about why they were rejected, even if they ask. Also, with automated application parsing, some do not even get to consideration.
Another Reasons that people were rejected in the past and nowadays: Prior to government quotas, there was the default quota.
Welp, won't be able to blame quotas for rejection this year.
At first I was like "this is so clickbait" but this kid actually got rejected from Cal Poly with a near perfect GPA and SAT?? wtf
There are examples of minority students getting accepted by all the Ivy League schools with full ride scholarships. He is in the wrong minority.
Anxiously not, being that there are twice as many students in these schools from his group than said minorities.
Why did Stanley even apply for the schools like UC Davis & Cal Ploy? They will reject him out of fear of being rejected by overqualified candidates like Stanley no matter what. 😂
I agree
Does no one else find it suspicious that he got rejected from California state schools, or schools like UW or University of Wisconsin-Madison (which has 60% acceptance rate)? I can understand from schools like Stanford/MIT/Ivies but with his stats his rejections are beyond me.
He got into two schools though. Shouldn't education be independent of the institution?
The comment section is toxic sadly with what a select few are saying about another group when it shouldn't be about that (bigots are everywhere sadly). People go to college for the job that he has, etc. Congrats to him.
Dude... Asians need to be stopped from getting any smarter than they already are. One day they will turn against you and prove that eugenics theory is correct. They'll begin eradicating anyone who doesn't pass a threshold of intelligence from society. They'll even turn against us the democrats.
I’m wondering if the colleges rejected him due to “diversity.” Now it looks like the college’s loss that he got hired at Google. Great job Stanley. You’ll do very well in life. Don’t worry about college anymore. You save yourself a lot of money and headache!
How do you know he's a great hire. When the original interview took place, he had only been on the job two days.
@@chenitabest4969 google’s interview process is very rigorous. Many people with experience have a hard time passing. Google reviewed his code on GIT which I’m guessing impressed them in the first place.
This just proves people have way too much time on their hands. This happens every day but this guy gets news coverage. Must be a slow week
Agree on transparency. Take college courses toward a BS degree and beyond while working at Google and paid by Google.
Apply the same rejected schools again and see what happens. I am very sorry to see your rejections. But keep your faith. My two daughters went to Stanford and UCLA.
There’s millions of people just like him with padded resumes and transcripts. Money for tutors and extra curricular easily gives you access to higher grades and success. He’s no different than the assembly line of students from China, just have money to pay for tutors that teach you the exams.
I don’t think you know what google code jam is(the shirt he is wearing). Its very hard to "teach" competitive programming, especially at such a young age. He is very very good even compared to university students. If anything, I'd argue his exam scores are the least impressive thing he was able to achieve.
@@harryzhu1074 I’m a software engineer, there’s plenty of assembled guys like him. Money always get you through the door, tutors props you up further. Just ask all those rich people who paid for people to take their kids exams, paid for volunteer spots, and padded their resume at family owned businesses
Nice stunt Google!
Exactly. I’m sure the kids smart but his dad works at Google apparently
The U.S. should consider educating our best and brightest as a matter of National Security (as many of our Adversaries do) We can't afford to let Brilliant Minds go to waste. How many Ivy League Schools have unqualified students taking up space because Mommy and Daddy are Wealthy Donors to our Colleges and Universities? Google's gain is our loss. I hope he thrives there.
Congratulations
Sounds like a inspiration made for the silver screen.
Lesson learned for the Asian. Wrtite your ethnicity as BLACK on your college application .
Black is a race not an ethnicity. It is also a color and a social construct. Affirmative Action is gone in its old form so stop making excuses. You clearly don't know the difference between a race, ethnicity and nationality in 2023. His dad might have some pull, and I wouldn't expect him to say if his dad did. It's who you know not always what you know.
Another abnormal thing, the kids who are good at coding, are usually do pretty well in math competitions. But Stanley recorded zero on math competitions. The two coding competitions in his resume are both online match before finals. So it is questionable that whether he did the test by himself online too!
Asians need to be stopped from getting any smarter than they already are. One day they will turn against you and prove that eugenics theory is correct. They'll begin eradicating anyone who doesn't pass a threshold of intelligence from society.
It’s a myth that one needs to be good at math to be good at coding. It’s true if you focus on machine learning or deep learning field.
@@deerbeau well, if you are really computer Science degree,you won’t say these things. nowadays, the Admission Officer give a shit to the coding competition, because every kids won some coding competition. But AO will think highly of the winner of math competition, since it’s more rare. That’s why Stanley is not as excellent as he and his family think. University of California has a very fierce competition in getting in, especially computer science program he only applied for.
@@deerbeau You don't have to be amazing at math, but being bad at math is rare in my experience. It is slightly suspicious
He may wish that he wasn’t hired by Google. Not a good place to work.
US college admission sucks. No wonder they need H1B to help their tech industry (and now high school student graduates haha..)
So his dad got him in lol
Stanley your website has a memory leak with one of the components halfway down the page.
You have to be good looking to apply for a job because girls be judging
He got rejected because of his character I guess.
This kid is overprivileged. That is why he learned so much. I'm sure all you can do what he can do if you were also "privileged". Wait, do you guys even learned algebra 2?
He is extremely bright! However, I feel like we are missing something 🤔 hold on.....
So in the spring he was rejected by MIT, University of Michigan,Stanford, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly SLO, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, University of Illinois, Georgia Tech, UC Berkeley, Caltech, University of Wisconsin and University of Washington. Really😏. What did they see that caused them to say "no thank you" so consistently? We need an IN DEPTH investigation! I'm going to be following this one. 👀🧢
How to get a Google job right out of High School:
Get a dad who works at Google and have him coach and prepare you every day since you were a kid.
Fact
Keep on hating gud luck
What's wrong with that?
Check the first interview. He said that he learned it on his own even though his father offered to teach him.
How blatant the kid is? He not only violate the age restriction of Google JAM. Google also restricts any body affiliated with Google employee from the competition, but his dad is a Google employee. If you ask me why you are rejected, I should say your resume is full of questionable experiences, in which it is difficult to separate the portion you completed and the portion your dad did.
His dad works in tech but isn’t a Google employee.
@@jwpd359 go back and check. It is confirmed that his dad is a software manager in google, since Stanley participated in the google coding competition for the first year. I hope Human Resources in Google get involved and investigate how this kid and his dad violated google’s rule. It is very unethical to do what the company has already forbidden you to do.