<p>Hi, I'm going to keep this pretty brief because I don't think it is either necessary or even helpful to post all of my details. Basically, I have the following...</p>
<p>3.67ish Unweighted GPA (mostly from freshman and sophomore year)
34 ACT
800 SAT Math II
780 SAT Physics
750 SAT US History
16 AP Exams By Graduation (so far 6 5s... will end up with 11-12 5s)</p>
<p>I did a TEDxTalk</p>
<p>I taught myself object oriented programming from Stanford courses when I was in 9th grade.</p>
<p>I used this programming knowledge to make iPhone apps... they have since been downloaded over 5 million times & been featured in publications like the Wall Street Journal. I had 3 full time employees at my company's peak.</p>
<p>Summers have been very productive (don't think it would help to post everything, but I did some selective summer camps & also attended major conferences)</p>
<p>What matters to me essay was about how I used my apps to help petition dozens of things on Change.org which have resulted in several "victories"things like getting Seventeen magazine to stop using photoshopped images of their models.</p>
<p>Personal statement was probably a 9/10. I analyzed the affect that my apps have had on teenage culture and how I feel about what they have turned into.</p>
<p>Anyone know if my GPA is going to kill my app?</p>
<p>Yep, I’ll major in CS. Stanford would just be perfect for me since I want to end up in the Valley anyways + the school just has this inherent entrepreneurial spirit unlike any other. Can anyone else weigh in on this?</p>
<p>I think your achievements really help you stand out and may help explain why you do not have a 4.0-you are basically running a business. Good luck!</p>
<p>^I had a PhD in writing from Princeton work with me on the essays for edits, suggestions, etc., so I really don’t think that I’m overestimating them, but I guess I’ll find out in March. I just really, really, really want to get into either Stanford, Penn, or Harvard, but it sounds like you all think that there is a good chance this will happen?</p>
<p>^Working with a PhD from Princeton is still no indication of how good your essays are. I think you have an above average shot, but teacher recs and essays are still the most important. </p>
<p>Definitely me. Although he helped make sure that I went in a direction that they would like, it’s definitely my voice. The edits he did were strictly semantic</p>
<p>I’ve also done a TEDx Talk! I also helped organize it. So much fun and definitely looks great on apps.</p>
<p>I’m also shooting for CompSci at Stanford. Good luck to you! It sounds like you make up for a *slightly<a href=“and%20I%20mean%20%5Bi%5Dslightly%5B/i%5D”>/i</a> low GPA in other aspects.</p>
<p>Stanford is the sacred ground of entrepreneurs and creating a company is no easy feat. Sure, you’re lacking from the 4.0 GPA but the lessons you’ve hopefully learned from creating a company from scratch should fully compensate it. Your AP exams are outstanding and the risk you took to focus your energy on entrepreneurism should stand out to the Stanford admission staff. You have a great chance and I hope you make it buddy!</p>
<p>I think all the admission committee people will be intrigued by your case and you can easily stand out with an authetic essay that presents your personality and abilities. There are just too many top students engaged in similar activities and services for the sake of college admission but they lack personal characteristics.</p>
<p>Just stay realistic. The fact is, with the applicant pools at these schools, a 3.67 is, assuming you’re ORM, not a Stanford or Harvard type of GPA. At that point, they start looking for a compelling reason to counteract that… which your business certainly can be. So I think it’s definitely possible, but you do have to be cognizant of the applicant pool. I wouldn’t go so far, like some responders have, as to say that you have a “great” chance, but it is definitely possible with a little good luck.</p>
<p>Teaching yourself the programming and creating a product many people find useful (5 mil users!) shows initiative and impact. Very nice.</p>
<p>If you presented yourself in your essays with qualities such as intellectual inquisitiveness, generosity and humility, then hopefully the adcoms will excuse your gpa - which to my mind is not low, just perhaps low vis-a-vis the other Stanford applicants. Your other stats would indicate you are capable of mastering the material.</p>
<p>Where else did you apply?</p>
<p>Good luck, I hope you make it. You’ve worked hard.</p>
<p>Mr. Navarrete opened the Tiger Labs coworking space in Princeton last June, and
demand has fueled a coming move to a large office, he said. In February, Mr. Navarrete
started a technology accelerator. The current participants include a Cambridge-trained
robotics builder and a 17-year-old high-school student creating iPhone apps, Mr.
Navarrete said.</p>
<p>Found you. I was curious as to whether you were actually hiring your workers or simply working with them. This article makes it seem like the Navarrete guy is your boss but whatever I wouldn’t worry much, our school had the founder of Quizlet who didn’t have anyone working for him but he still got into MIT. He was not valedictorian or anything, even at our pretty crappy public school, just really good with computers. Oh he was also one of the year’s young entrepenuers thing though. You should be fine, but I hope you applied to Cal tech and MIT as I feel like you fit their general “personality” better and should have a higher chance of getting in.</p>
It sounds like you make up for a *slightly<a href=“and%20I%20mean%20%5Bi%5Dslightly%5B/i%5D”>/i</a> low GPA in other aspects.</p>
I wouldn’t worry much, our school had the founder of Quizlet who didn’t have anyone working for him but he still got into MIT. He was not valedictorian or anything, even at our pretty crappy public school, just really good with computers. Oh he was also one of the year’s young entrepenuers thing though. You should be fine, but I hope you applied to Cal tech and MIT as I feel like you fit their general “personality” better and should have a higher chance of getting in.</p>