Jon Wang, an Asian-American, achieved a nearly perfect sore of 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test and attained 4.65 grade-point average in high school — well beyond perfect.
Most folks likely would assume that waves of red carpets would come rolling in from elite colleges that would love nothing more than to scoop up a student boasting such numbers.
Indeed, Wang told Fox Nation he applied to six “top-tier” institutions of higher learning — Harvard, Princeton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon, and the University of California, Berkeley.
But the verdict — despite Wang’s performance, which included a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT — was a resounding no from all six schools, the cable network program said.
‘Tougher to get in’
Wang — a Florida native and the son of two first-generation Chinese immigrants — told Fox Nation the rejections weren’t entirely surprising given that he spoke to friends and school guidance counselors amid the application process, and they all said the same thing.