The anti-asian bias in the admissions offices of many top schools is deeply rooted.
It also seems to be reflected in certain high-end real estate markets served by highly-rated public/regional high schools.
It appears that those schools are motivated to start de-emphasizing AP math and science offerings (or at least offer fewer total seats/sections for the highest-level courses) in favor of softer subjects.
This has been going on for a long time
Even 30 years ago the universities would be 80 % Asian is GPA and entrance exam scores were the only criterion
This kid looks pretty well rounded and even at Stanford I can assure you that there were many accepted with far less impressive academic and entrance exam numbers
It’s all about DEI and this kid was not checking the right boxes to get
what really matters - a high intersectionality score