华裔高中生Stanley Zhong被16所名校拒绝 却被Google录取 你想知道高中生如何进入谷歌吗？

这位来自宇宙中心硅谷Palo Alto的18岁Gunn High School的高中华裔毕业生Stanley Zhong，这两天被电视台ABC报道后，立即冲上了热搜！

之所以被引起广泛关注，就是因为这样一位成绩优异的高中毕业生，申请了18所美国名校，居然齐刷刷被16所拒绝，有点令人不可思议。

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

麻省理工学院、卡内基梅隆大学、斯坦福大学、加州大学伯克利分校、加州大学洛杉矶分校、加州大学圣地亚哥分校、加州大学圣巴巴拉分校、加州大学戴维斯分校、加州理工大学圣路易斯奥比斯波分校、康奈尔大学、伊利诺伊大学、密歇根大学、佐治亚理工学院、加州理工学院、华盛顿大学和威斯康星大学。

大学招生专家经常告诉申请者，像麻省理工学院和斯坦福大学这样录取率低于5%的学校，被拒绝的概率几乎适用于所有人，但Stanley Zhong这样具有优异成绩的学生居然被加州理工大学圣路易斯奥比斯波分校拒绝是不寻常的，要知道该校录取的工程专业的GPA仅处于中等水平为4.13-4.25。

在收到一封又一封的拒绝信之后，只有两所大学接受了Stanley，德克萨斯大学（University of Texas）和马里兰大学（University of Maryland）。Stanley在一些沮丧的心情中准备接受德克萨斯大学的录取，但正在此时，他收到了宇宙中心顶级的互联网公司Google的录用-全职软件工程师，而且就在这个金秋十月开始上班了！

高中生如何进入Google？

有人说，很多人读名校就是为了毕业后能够进入像Google这样的大公司工作，而Stanley同学现在一步到位了，结果非常令人欣慰。其实，Google公司的几乎任何职位，大学本科学历都不在要求之列，因为他们只看你的技能和经验，而这些可以通过取得学位获得，也可以通过其他相关的经历获得。

Our focus is on demonstrated skills and experience, and this can come through degrees or it can come through relevant experience.

Tom Dewaele, Google’s vice president of People Experience

按照这位资深人士Brian Schmitz的意见，Stanley Zhong是属于这一类的高中毕业生。

根据另一位资深人士Jessica Ewing的经验，这一类人的简历会比较突出：

 It usually made it to the top of the pile because that person had done something exceptional, unusual, bold, or inspiring. 

它（简历）通常会排在最前面，因为这个人做了一些特殊的、不寻常的、大胆的或鼓舞人心的事情。

也有人对Stanley Zhong得到Google的职位有疑问：

There have been speculations about whether family connections played a significant role in the hiring decisions. For example, the fact that Stanley Zhong’s father Nan Zhong is engineering manager at Google may lead to concerns that a reference or recommendation from that parent, who holds a high-ranking position, influenced the hiring process.

Moreover, some have pointed out that the Stanley Zhong’s primary background in the case was founding a startup that utilized services from a major tech company, like Amazon Web Services (AWS). This situation has led to discussions about the potential overlap between the teenager’s career development and the parent’s professional connections, as Nan Zhong happens to be previously software engineer manager at AWS.

有回复对此进行了否定：

So having applied to Google multiple times on different referrals and gotten exactly 0 interviews, I can say that it probably doesn’t affect your application to have “connections” nearly as much as you’d think. In any case, he did competitive programming on the side and he was certainly very good at it, which makes the interview portion trivial to pass.

> Moreover, some have pointed out that the Stanley Zhong’s primary background in the case was founding a startup that utilized services from a major tech company, like Amazon Web Services (AWS). This situation has led to discussions about the potential overlap between the teenager’s career development and the parent’s professional connections, as Nan Zhong happens to be previously software engineer manager at AWS.

This is BS. Every web app runs on some cloud infrastructure (or I guess on-prem is an option if you have a lot of money), but as a high school student your budget will be determined based on how much free credit you’ll get. Google Cloud and AWS both have generous amounts of free credits for startups, so realistically these were the two best options. I think it’s slightly easier to get AWS credits than Google, but regardless, they’re pretty easy to get (I have a friend who has gotten tens of thousands of dollars worth of free credits for simply having registered an LLC and getting a Mercury account).

这是Ycombinator上的一个帖子，感兴趣的可以看这里：https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37783167

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