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Oct 6, 2023 · Stanley Chong passed away on July 30, 1985, in Qualicum Beach, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. He was 71 years old at the time of his death. His wife Lorna Jean Gilchrist passed away three years earlier. Today, Stanley Chong’s son Tommy Chong has been married twice.
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Stanley Chong is a musician from Northern Virginia. More correctly, from Burke, Virginia. He plays Drums (since 1991), guitar (since 1997), Bass (since 2000), and Ukulele (since 2002). He is in the process of learning how to play keyboard and banjo. He was the drummer for the DC Area indie band called Psychic Twin (www.myspace.com/psychictwin).
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A high school graduate with a stellar grade point average, near perfect test scores, and a tech startup he founded when he was a sophomore, was rejected by more than a dozen colleges, including state schools. Then he landed a job at Google.
When Stanley Zhong, who graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, in 2023, was rejected by 14 of the 18 colleges and universities to which he applied, he and his advisers were dumbfounded.
Zhong was a standout student: He had an unweighted 3.96 grade point average and scored 1590 on his SATs. He had also been a finalist in multiple global computer coding contests and founded a free electronic signature startup called RabbitSign.
Zhong was rejected by his first-choice school, Stanford, which wasn't all too surprising, he said. But he did not expect the rejection letters he received from some of the state schools he had applied to, including University of California, Davis; University of California, Santa Barbara; and California Polytechnic State University.
With no elucidation provided from colleges and universities on their decision-making, all he could do was speculate as to why he had received so many rejections.
"I didn't get any feedback from any admissions offices. You don't get reasons, you just get 'you're rejected,'" Zhong said. "For some of them it was expected. For a lot of them I felt frustrated in the sense of, 'What do you want from me?' I feel like as students, we deserve to know what we should be doing in order to get into these colleges."
Zhong and his family reached out to the Asian American Coalition for Education (AACE), a nonprofit organization that advocates for Asian-American children's education rights, "to try to push for transparency in college admissions decisions," he said.
AACE founding president Yukong Mike Zhao raised Zhong's case at a hearing of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on race-based college admissions decisions last month.
"He is a talent in programming — everybody says computer science is the future for the 21st century," Zhao said.
"It's appalling for the colleges to ignore this kind of talent," he added.
A total of four schools offered admission to Zhong, including the University of Texas at Austin.
Not one to wallow in disappointment, Zhong decided to matriculate at UT Austin. He also applied to a software engineer opening at Google "as a moonshot," he said.
"I decided to go for a full-time job as well to see what happened. I figured worst case, I would get interview experience and see what the process was like and maybe I would get lucky," Zhong said.
He did.
Earlier this month, 18-year-old Zhong started working as a software development engineer at Google, a role that doesn't require a college degree.
Google has many job roles for which "equivalent practical experience" counts in lieu of a college degree, and others that don't have any degree requirements. Zhong did not disclose how much the job pays.
College is still on the table for Zhong, but not until 2024 at the earliest.
"I am very lucky to have this opportunity and right now, I will stick with it for at least a year. From there I will think about, 'Am I am making good contributions and doing good work?' If that's the case, I will stay until I don't feel like I am or that I am really missing out on a lot by not going to college," Zhong said.
He said he's a self-taught programmer, but still sees value in higher education.
"In computer science, from a purely educational standpoint, a lot of what colleges teach, can also be found online if you're willing to learn it. Most of my computer science knowledge is from looking things up, reading articles, things like that," Zhong said. "But there is also a social and networking aspect to college."
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Stanley Chong died October 24, 2006. In honor of this life-long passion, his foundation established a renewable scholarship in 2006 that honors up to 5 meritorious CAAM CDT dancers a year as well as scholarships for CAAM CDT dance students in financial need. 2017 Stanley and Marvel Chong Scholars 2018 Stanley and Marvel Chong Scholars
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