(from a different article). > He was denied by: MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cornell Univ

(from a different article). > He was denied by: MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cornell University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Caltech, University of Washington and University of Wisconsin. His only acceptances: University of Texas and University of Maryland. Wild. I looked around for another few articles hypothesizing why he got rejected. It basically sounds like the relative measurement of being 'only' top 9% at the #1 public school in the US and applying for CS (a very competitive major) made his application a lot harder. It's been 12 years since I went through the undergrad application process and I don't think my application was anywhere as strong as his was. I am generally in favor of considering the opportunities an applicant has available to them relative to what they have accomplished (hard to take 20 AP classes if your school only offers 10 of them, and yes I'm aware you can take an exam even if you didn't take the class), but this seems taken to extremes. I don't generally have a lot of empathy for people complaining about not being accepted to colleges but having a high GPA at a competitive school, and a high SAT score, as well as having an interesting-enough 'hook' like his own moderately successful startup should've at least gotten him into one in-state school. I'm not familiar enough with the application process now and nothing states that if he was denied from the CS department while being accepted into the university itself which was a common outcome for applicants when I was a student. I think the lawsuit is a good thing hopefully, I think there can be anti-Asian American-bias for things like this but that bias tends to be ignored and this is a good sample case to bring that bias to light. See in comparison to Abby Fischer (sp?) who sued University of Texas for being denied with a rather underwhelming application.