Stanley Chang was a near-perfect university applicant.
Of the over 2 million children who take SAT every year, he is one of about 2,000. Scores above 1590.
His high school GPA was 4.42 on the 4.0 scale. He even had an offer to do a PhD level job at Google in front Graduated from high school.
Stanley, who was planning to study computer science, too. He managed his own startupe-document Signature Platform Rabbit-Sign is still in high school.
Anyone expecting it would have been Palo Alto, California, and the teenagers would have been Harvard or MIT bound. Still, Stanley, now 19, was disappointed after being disappointed in 2023 when his college admission letter began to drip.
Stanley was rejected by Polysan Luis Obispo, California, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell University, Georgia Tech, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCS, UCLA, and UCSD.
Only at the University of Texas Austin and the University of Maryland – enrollment rates of 31% and 44% respectively accepted him. Stanley's father, Nan Chang, was surprised.
“I heard that Asians seem to face higher bars when it comes to college admissions, but I thought it was an urban legend,” Nan told the Post.
“But then, when rejections rolled over one after another, I was umbed. What began as a surprise turned into frustration, and in the end it turned into rage.”
With only two admissions from 18 schools, Nan is convinced that his Wiz's child must have been discriminated against and decides to take the school that rejected his son to court.
“There's nothing more Americans,” Nan said of the allegations of discrimination his son faced. “I'm not really thinking about it [these schools] Be mindful of the damage they are doing to these children. ”
Asian American students have long been getting the short edge of the stick when it comes to positive behavior. The Supreme Court banned positive behavior in university admissions in June 2023, finding Asian students systematically overlooked.
Stanley applied for admission shortly before the verdict, so Zhongs decided to su schools in states where there is an existing law prohibiting racism in admission.
Since 1996, positive behavior has been prohibited at public universities in Stanley's hometown of California.
So far, my family has The lawsuit filed The University of California System and the University of Washington claims schools.[engaged] With racist admission practices that are disadvantaged to competent Asian American applicants. ”
“[Stanley’s admissions] The results are in stark contrast to receiving full-time job offers from Google for positions that require a PhD or comparable work experience,” the lawsuit alleges. “Stanley's experience represents a broader pattern of racism against UC's highly qualified Asian American applicants.”
They seek compensation and punitive damages. [the] The court considers it to be just and appropriate. ” The family recently filed another lawsuit against the University of Michigan.
“At Harvard [Supreme Court] The case, the question was whether positive behavior was legal,” Nan explained. “Our case is about enforcing the law and holding the schools accountable. In that case, it's great that the Supreme Court ruled, but I think enforcement is much more difficult than declaring it unconstitutional.”
Many universities have been accused of exploiting loopholes to manipulate the racial demographics of their receiving classes, often artificially restraining the number of Asian Americans despite Supreme Court decisions.
Stanley has decided to win a Google job and has been working as a full-time software engineer since October. Google first tried to recruit him when he was 13 because his online coding had progressed so much.
He doesn't rule out college in the future, but after facing a blow to the lawsuit on the internet, he decided to set back from media attention.
“I've never seen an incident like Stanley because I can't believe the open hostility that stands up for the rights to Asian students,” his father said.
Nan, an immigrant from China who also works as a software engineer, also has a 16-year-old son and says he is “very worried about the outlook he is facing” during the university entrance process.
“My other son is part of the reason we are fighting this fight,” he said. “We're doing this for other Asian children, including my young children and future grandchildren.”
Nan represents his family in court. He outlined the complaints using artificial intelligence and said that lawsuits were not possible without AI.
“The reason we represent ourselves isn't that we wanted,” he said. “The lawyer leaning left didn't want to take this case, and the lawyer on the right was a California court. [and other states] The bias is too high. ”
He is looking for two things that will help him build his case: “More plaintiffs and whistleblowers [from inside the university system]. ”
Nan says that what motivates him most is fighting for the mental well-being of other Asian American children, despite tireless efforts, who feel unmoved by rejection.
“This really undermines their mental health and creates a sense of helplessness and hopelessness,” he said. “If you look at Stanley's case as a reference point, you may not even get to enroll in undergraduate school, even if it's as good as someone with a PhD.”
