A Minnesota college is engaging in discrimination by restricting access to a scholarship named in honor of George Floyd, a complaint filed with the U.S. Education Department claims.
Parents who didn't grow up in the American system, and who may have moved to the U.S. in large part for their children's education, feel desperate and in-the-dark. Some shell out tens of thousands of dollars for consultants as early as junior high.
For Palo Alto resident Stanley Zhong, life has been a bit of a whirlwind for the last few days. After receiving rejections from 16 out of the 18 colleges he applied to, he pursued and landed a job as a software engineer at Google.