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[BI] Perfect ACT score couldn’t get this student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford, says it’s because he’s Asian

June 2, 2015
Michael Wang ended up going to Williams College after being rejected from most ivy league schools. (Courtesy of Facebook)

Michael Wang ended up going to Williams College after being rejected from most ivy league schools. (Courtesy of Facebook)

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With a perfect ACT score and 13 Advanced Placement courses under his belt, Michael Wang applied to seven Ivy League universities and Stanford in 2013.

An Asian-American, Wang suspected his race might work against him. But he was still shocked when he was rejected by Stanford and every Ivy League school except for the University of Pennsylvania.

Wang says he worked incredibly hard and excelled in every area possible. But it still wasn’t good enough.

“There was nothing humanly possible I could do,” Wang told us, saying he felt utterly demoralized after his rejections.

Wang said that after he was rejected from most of the Ivies, he filed a complaint with the US Department of Education alleging that Yale, Stanford, and Princeton discriminated against him because he was Asian-American.

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