<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.36 UW/W (no honors or AP classes)
SAT: 1150/1740
ACT: 27
Class Rank: 63/250 (25%)</p>
<p>Relevant Senior Courses:
Introduction to Info (college course)
Business Law
Business Electronics and Communications
Pre-Calculus</p>
<p>Trends:
My GPA has increased every year with only one C
Freshman Year - 2.9 GPA
Sophomore Year - 3.3 GPA
Junior Year - 3.9 GPA</p>
<p>EC's:
Owner and Founder of my own successful Sole Proprietorship ($10,000 income in first two months)
Owner and Founder of my own web design company ($2,000 total income so far).
Designed the official website for a million dollar company.
National Honor Society
Choir Officer Secretary
4 Year Baseball player</p>
<p>Volunteer/Community Service:
Volunteered all summer at a local pharmacy
All my National Honor Society volunteering ~25 hours
Homework Club regularly after school </p>
<p>My stats are low for the Business school. However, will I be able to get into the Business school because of my Entrepreneurial experience? I feel it is something that is very unique and obviously relevant to being accepted into a business school. My essay went into depth on my two biggest entrepreneurial successes and how those experiences will be the reason I succeed at Rutgers if accepted. My biggest concerns are my low GPA and no impressive course rigor throughout high school. I had a complex that I wasn't smart enough for Honors or AP classes and thus didn't apply myself into Junior year when it was too late.</p>
<p>What do you guys think? I have applied Early Action.</p>
<p>Sorry, your stats and ECs including entrepreneurship don’t give you much of a chance. I doubt that a couple months of business experience that you describe will count more than 4 years of third-party verified grades as well as the achievement tests which (in teary) test lifelong learning. A longer period of working, more success and a great essay which used that info to distinguish you would have been much more persuasive.
Good luck though.</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply CHD. When you say a longer period of working and more success, do you mean as an Entrepreneur or in the classroom? The essay is already submitted, but your reply is giving me regrets. I had assumed that nearly every applicant was going to type up the “this happened to me, and it now defines who I am,” so I wrote my essay on something that displayed my drive to succeed and how it would translate into my work at their University. I fully understand that 4 years worth of third-party verified grades are much more reliable and safer to depend on to gauge my success at four year institution, and I in no way expected my Business experience to trump that. I had hoped that my below average (but still within the bottom 25%) stats would be enough because of it, however. My 3.37 gpa falls below the 3.6 average and my 27 ACT (1830 SAT) falls below the 1870 average. Do you really think I should not have wrote about my Entrepreneurial endeavors, however? </p>
<p>Thank you. At this point, is there anything else I can do except hope?</p>
<p>Nothing else to do (that I know of). You say that one business has been around for 2 months and the other has generated a total of $2000 in revenue. Neither seems like a long-term project. I was suggesting that a long-term, time consuming success may have been worth writing about. I think you handled things correctly.</p>
<p>One more thought: it may have been more realistic to apply to another Rutgers school with plans to transfer to business. Keep that in mind for any other applications.</p>
<p>@CHD
Both of the projects are still going on, which I noted in my essay. They simply haven’t been around long enough. The Sole Proprietorship has been around since July and the $2,000 income one since late 2012. They haven’t been around long, but they have both been extremely time consuming projects. They wouldn’t have been successful otherwise, I didn’t explicitly mention this in my essay because I had assumed it was implied which was my mistake. And I did, I also applied to SAS and Engineering. I’m confident I’ll get into SAS so transferring to RBS is my backup plan. Thanks again for replying.</p>
<p>I got accepted into the business school (along with SAS and Engineering) with no focus on business. Granted I had higher stats but I think your projects make you an interesting applicant.</p>