India, March 4 -- Stanley Zhong was offered a job by Google straight out of high school. Of the 2 million students who take the SAT every year, he was one out of roughly 2,000 who scored more than 1,590 on the test. His high school GPA stood at 4.42 on a 4.0 scale. When still in school, he built and managed a startup called Rabbit-Sign to provide unlimited free e-signing.

By all accounts, the California teenager should have gotten into a good school, if not an Ivy League institute. But when college admission results started trickling in for Stanley in 2023, he was unpleasantly surprised to learn that he had been rejected by 16 of the 18 colleges he applied to.

Stanley, now 19, and his father Nan Zhong are suing for discrimination, repor...