SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- College admissions decisions disappoint thousands of high-achieving students each year, but one Palo Alto teen's story is catching the attention of Congress.
Stanley Zhong, 18, is a 2023 graduate of Gunn High School in Palo Alto.
-Mark
He could always learn to code.....no, wait.....
ReplyDeleteSince he had learned to code, he got a well paying job without a mountain of college debt. 30 years from now, he might be much better off without having gone to one of those over priced, pretentious universities. Instead of 4 years of college costing 200K, he'll have 4 years work experience and have made close to 400K.
DeleteHe is reasonably unique. His father taught him to code and he had a visible project.
Anonymous, I think it was sarcasm.....
DeletePretty good sarcasm at that. The reply should have gone against the article and not the comment.
DeleteConsider it a bullet dodged. My solid, midwest-born and bred dau and sil are now rabid woke lefties, having attended Stanford and uc Davis. I fought to get all my kids to college, and the result is a total rejection of values and common sense. I weep.
ReplyDeleteThis is my exact fear.
DeleteLikewise my daughter is at a University, and I worry... fortunately my boys are interested in trade school, in large part due to the faggots and trannies at the colleges.
DeleteSociety is bifurcating...
He ticked off a lot of boxes on the admission list....just not the right ones to make the libtards in charge of admissions happy.
ReplyDeleteHe's lucky , he gets to skip the indoctrination.
ReplyDeleteSorry you yellow rice eater you're the wrong race, however if you go to a plastic surgeon to get your eyes rounded, spend 2 hours a day in a tanning bed and legally change your name to Da' Shaquan you might have a better chance.
ReplyDeleteHe must have forgotten to check the 'I hate Israel' checkbox on his application.
ReplyDeleteTop colleges have their important requirements you know.
Job skills are always better than college skills so he's making money instead of spending it, seems like a win to me...
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The only thing those colleges hate worse than an asian kid is a white boy.
ReplyDeleteHe whould have tried University of Phoenix
ReplyDeleteDaryl
My wife got into Stanford in the mid-80s. Ended up going to a state school because they gave her a full ride. And it was closer to home.
ReplyDeleteMakes me think of my youth in Eastern Europe, before the fall of the wall - the university admission process was WAY fairer and (gasp!) unpolitical... You registered for ONE university for ONE specialization (in my case I went for electrical engineering) and there were 3 admission exams (algebra & calculus, geometry & trigonometry and physics in my case) which were identical for ALL universities nationwide. The exams were written, the names of the candidates were sealed and the grading was made by teaching cadres from other universities. After all grading was done AND VERIFIED (4 eyes principles) the sealed names were opened and the mean grade for each candidate was calculated and listed. Te top X (X being the number of available study places for that specialization) were admitted and that was it!
ReplyDeleteThat system is too fair for modern day America, today you put your race, sex you identity with, any pronouns you want to be called and your political affiliation on the cover.... Grades don't matter
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That would never fly now. Imagine the uproar if admissions here were based on aptitude, accomplishments and knowledge.
DeleteUnfortunately that model was discarded after the fall of the wall and currently they are using something similar to what you see in the US with predictable results: a LOT of university graduates who are absolutely useless in ANY job...
DeleteMy younger son makes his living from home as (last I heard) an IT manager for CC school districts and translating software. No college, self-taught. Owns 50 acres in east Texas with a 4,400 sq. ft. house. Yeah, college is highly overrated. He home schools his 4 kids.
ReplyDeletebtw, do y'all realize the significance of a 1590 SAT score? It's crazy. Of course they have been dumbed down a bit for "equity", but BITD my 1970 score of 1340 got me into Mensa. My high school GPA was 2.7, and I still qualified for Harvard, except for the money part of course. There is no good reason to deny this kid, just lots of bad ones.
Being a hard geek, I get so damned tired of hearing that "learn to code" refrain. I worked on one app that controlled oil field production equipment. One of the developers did not understand the difference between a dot (.) operator and arrow operator (->) in C++; the whole conceptual framework was not there. His code was full of mixed calls and yielded dangling pointers and zombie objects, both of which could yield catastrophic results in production control software. At one point, I spent three full months just fixing the shit he wrote during one of our test cycles. I worked on other, similar teams where "coders" made serious mistakes because they did not have a grasp of the most basic fundamentals of software development.
ReplyDeleteYou know, when I hear people complain about the whole "C++ is so difficult, inconsistent, full of bizarre concepts, etc" I usually recommend switching to one of the next gen C derivatives like C# or Rust, but in the case of your boy, he probably wouldn't be able to code with emojis! Some people are simply useless!
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