By Kristen Sze
Publication Date: 2026-04-07 17:44:00
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A Palo Alto father who has filed multiple lawsuits against major university systems over his son’s college rejections says artificial intelligence has become the key to pursuing the cases after no law firm agreed to represent them.
The legal fight stems from a 2023 ABC7 News story about Stanley Zhong, then an 18-year-old Gunn High School student with a 4.4 GPA and a near-perfect 1590 SAT score who was rejected by 16 out of the 18 colleges he applied to. Despite the rejections, he was later hired as a software engineer at Google.
Two and a half years later, his father, Nan Zhong, says the family remains convinced racial discrimination played a role in those decisions. He appeared on ABC7 News at 3 p.m. and spoke exclusively with anchor Kristen Sze.
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Zhong said Stanley, now 21, is happy and doing well in his job at Google. “In 2025, he received an outstanding impact…
