As an Entrepreneur, Will Stanford Overlook a Horrendous Freshman/ Junior Year?

Applying to College
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<p>I'm currently a Junior, but take a course in grade 11 comsci. As a web developer and entrepreneur, I've founded numerous projects and is to be named "Top 20 under 20" on Profit magazine. At the beginning of the year I had the mindset to get straight As, but in the past few months have skipped almost every day of school working on projects from home.I've went from 94% (which I consider mediocre), to a 75% average.</p>

<p>That said, I have a trend of B-C grades. I always start the year with a 95%, then my grades drop signifigantly as I become completely emersed with the business I'm running. I constantly weigh the value of going to school and studying academia, versus developing the next big thing for the web. Usually, coding wins over. I don't see achieving success by balancing my studies possible.</p>

<p>If I put time and dedication into school, I'm able to achieve reasonably high grades. I feel that the time and dedication is better put in the focus of achieving success in my projects. Let's assume in grade 11/ 12 I achieve a 93% average -- which is a major upward trend from my current average, will admission officers overlook the horrendous Junior/ Freshman year? I know Stanford looks for people with passion, dedication and achievement. But how flexible are they with low-academia achievement?</p>

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<p>My apologies, I meant to say Sophomore, not Junior.</p>

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<p>No one really knows. I could reasonably expect if you have 2-3 Cs and a handful of Bs that this great EC could erase those as it’s pretty unique but 2 bad years? I can’t say. The thing is most of these students applying have great ECs and As and Bs, not Cs and Bs.
Focus on your passion but make sure you earn As here on out. </p>

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<p>Typically you can write off a bad freshmen year, but continuously bad grades does not a Stanford admit make -typically. Could you get into Stanford? Maybe. But you’re going to be competing with a plethora of kids who have straight As, high test scores, and are very passionate about their ECs. You’re amazing ECs help, but with Stanford’s 5.1% acceptance rate and your competition I would not expect that you’d get in unless you really turn your grades around.
Good luck</p>