Education expert breaks down possible reasons why the Bay Area high school grad hired by Google was denied by 16 top colleges in the U.S. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- An outstanding Bay Area high school graduate was rejected by 16 of the 18 colleges he applied to. Despite all those rejections, he impressed Google so much so that he got a full-time job offer as a software engineer. Stanley Zhong told ABC
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