[woodruffw]

There's some incongruity here: college admissions are by no means fair, but they also don't evaluate for nearly the same things as Google's hiring process does.

Put another way: colleges aren't qualified or equipped to make the kinds of determinations that Google does when hiring engineers, and being hired as a Google engineer prior to going to college isn't any particularly strong signal that you're prepared to go to a specific school.

I sympathize with his situation, but I think treating college acceptances as a foregone conclusion based on demonstrated engineering prowess is an error.

[ptero]

> I think treating college acceptances as a foregone conclusion based on demonstrated engineering prowess is an error.

While the demonstrated engineering prowess in high school does not guarantee an acceptance into a good college, I view it as the problem with the acceptance process.

Any college acceptance is somewhat random, but the fact that the vast majority of the listed 16 computer science programs rejected him does not show the US college acceptance process in good light. My 2c.

[WillPostForFood]

It is the 1590 SAT, 4.42 GPA, individual achievements, and Asian last name that make the College rejections notable, not that Google hired him.

[naniwaduni]

Notable? It's just another Tuesday.

[MatthiasPortzel]

There are more qualified applicants for both top-colleges and Apple/Google/Amazon jobs, so both processes have a high degree of randomness. I don’t draw any conclusions from one event occurring but not the other.

[lazyasciiart]

Evidence suggests it is false in the details if not in entirety - his high school lists all the colleges their graduates apply to, and it does not list all of those in this story.

[figassis]

idk, that is partly true. Then there's all the college signaling that academics are not enough. To be admitted in a top school you need to show extra curricular experience and generally be extraordinary, but now that's not enough. Well, I'd like to see the applications.

[shaburn]

Then what are the comp sci departments screening for and why?

[woodruffw]

We don't have any indication that he was rejected by a department; he may have been filtered outright before any CS department could have a say.