'It's not enough to be excellent in STEM in the course of STEM you want to study.'
Zhong was rejected by 16 of the 18 colleges he applied to, even with his 4.42 GPA and SAT score of 1590.Education expert breaks down possible reasons why the Bay Area high school grad hired by Google was denied by 16 top colleges in the U.S.An outstanding Bay Area high school graduate was rejected by 16 of the 18 colleges he applied to. Despite all those rejections, he impressed Google so much so that he got a full-time job offer as a software engineer.
Allen Koh is CEO of Cardinal Education. Families pay his educational consultants to help students compete against other very well qualified college applicants out there."An Asian male, computer science, the probabilities are Darwinian - much worse than for any other demographic," said Koh."Maybe he had to invest so much of his time into learning computer science as a high school student, he came across as too unidirectional for most universities," said Koh.
"It's not enough to be excellent in STEM in the course of STEM you want to study. They want to see that you are well-rounded and that you have other pursuits that you also want to take to a high-level," said Koh. "We really want to push for transparency," said Zhong. "We should be able to if we get rejected, these are the reasons why and we shouldn't have to guess in the dark about a black box process.""The community college path is great for a lot of disciplines especially if you can spend a fifth year at a UC. Even engineering, you can be a very competitive engineer by going to a community college and then transferring to a UC," said Koh.
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