If you're a student in or going into high school, there's a good chance you've done this. You opened YouTube and you typed in something along the lines of stats and extracurriculars that got me into Harvard. You hit the search bar and boom, many videos in, you start to notice a pattern.Everyone's got a 4.0% an OGPA and a 1580 on the SAT. Everyone has taken 10 AP classes. They've won national awards, volunteered every weekend since the womb, and built water wells on three continents, all before turning 17.In ...

In February 2025, Nanzong and his son Stanley filed a lawsuit against the University of California system alleging racial discrimination against Asian-Americans in the college admissions process. Stanley Zong was no ordinary applicant. By age 18, he had demonstrated such exceptional coding prowess that Google hired him at an L4 position, typically requiring a PhD or equivalent experience.After rigorous technical interviews with five Google engineers, he created Rapid Sign, a free e-signing service built on ...