<p>Then let him ask the Stanford admissions too.</p>
<p>PS: wcclirl444: best of luck.</p>
<p>We don’t need prove no more because he is obviously lying. </p>
<p>“I did all these and that and it’s published in a newspaper that millions see every day. Oh wait, it’s a huge NO NO to show you guys that because you three people would know about me, I am terrified… Oh dear… I am peeing in my pants… But obviously I am not lying because its Stanford forum right? People from here are always legit.”</p>
<p>Your business is worth several million dollars? In terms of what? Capital flow? Lying penalty? Your parents wallet? One thing that I couldn’t believe is you manage to create a company, a charity, joined numerous club, took great amount of time prep for tests at the same time. A regular sane person would not believe you. </p>
<p>Damn people from Internet would believe everything. Actually, I found a education company with 5 employees in china and two universities are using my product already.</p>
<p>And plus, if he is actually telling the truth, I personally see no problem in linking that NYtimes article. I mean, thousands, if not millions of people read that newspaper every day so he’s really not protecting his identity or anything unless they took out his name and photo. I mean seriously! At least give us assurance. He claims to have founded a million dollar venture and yet is asking HELP on a public forum! I see absolutely no logic in this. And if you don’t appreciate help, why are you asking for it?</p>
<p>you have very very good stat, good luck and let us know next year !</p>
<p>I’m not posting the links. End of story.</p>
<p>Also, I never said that my company was worth millions. (I was, however, offered a nice 6-figure sum for one of my apps)</p>
<p>Thanks to the people who actually chanced me. I really hope that my chances are as good as you all think they are!</p>
<p>Moose, I never said I don’t appreciate help… Stop making this nonsense up. Also, why on Earth would I need to provide you “assurance”??? Assurance for what?!</p>
<p>Kelio, about your comment on me not having time for everything I do… I don’t prep for tests long at all. For example, I self studied 3 APs last year, but I started studying the midnight the night before the exam for two of them and the weekend before for the other one. For my math subject test, I started around 2am the morning of and got a perfect score. School usually takes up two nights per week and I usually focus the rest of my time on my business, clubs, leisure, etc. Its very intense and does usually require at least 1 all-nighter per month, but it is certainly doable… But <em>please</em> let’s try to get back on topic.</p>
<p>OP, okay, let’s get it all cleared up.</p>
<p>You are a student, right? Now, it takes time to go to class, go to your after school clubs. So I now assume you go to class everyday @ 8am, come home everyday around 5-6pm. Even Assuming you don’t even need time to do homework, where would your company w/ 2 employees’ time fit in?</p>
<p>Believe it or not, considerable amount of high school students today have their own small companies. I personally knew few of them. All of them are either 1) switch to online/home school shortly after or 2) rarely pay attention or even go to school and always have sluggish grade. Why? Because building a <strong>REAL</strong> company takes tremendous amount of time and effort. Starting a company is hard, it is even harder for teens. So they need to work harder and invest even more time than the normal adults. Although with average grades, those people always attract top universities’ eyes, why? Because thankfully they are rare, also because those people are 10-20 years ahead of many others, including most adults. </p>
<p>If you consider your 10 hours a week business a “company”, then I am sorry, you over-exaggerated yourself. Filling a C-Crop or LLC is easy, only takes 30 minutes, but without a proper business plan and company structure, it is not a company. At best it is a interesting project of yours. With your laundry list of ECs, I highly doubt your business is even serious. You might be just a bit better than my neighbor who sell 2nd hand smartphones on Amazon and just graduated high school few months ago. He doesn’t hire anybody, but he makes close to 6 figure a year (well, I don’t think he pays tax).</p>
<p>Now OP, I don’t know why you post this post because I bet 90% of chance repliers have no idea of how college admission process works, all they know is look at grades and say, “oh dear, 30 ACT? that sucks. My friend got 34 and got denied”. There ARE people who have 100% chance of getting into Stanford, but those people are rare and frankly you are not one of them. So I would say, don’t get cocky, you have great chance of getting denied. Sometimes, truth hurts.</p>
<p>I’m sorry to say this, but what the hell is your problem? Stop posting on this thread. You are not posting anything productive and are trying as hard as possible to try to put me down. I welcome constructive feedback (i.e. your chances are probably 5%… here’s what you should try to improve), but yours is just absolutely ridiculous.</p>
<p>According to your logic, I need to spend 40+ hours a week or <em>drop out from school</em> to have a real business?! Well let me tell you something; that couldn’t be further from the truth. I think that everyone on here agrees that my BUSINESS that has 4.2 million downloads AND has apps used by 1 in 18 US teens AND has been in the NYTimes AND brings in a very nice disposable income AND has attracted not one, but two companies to make offers for my apps AND results in me flying to San Francisco about once a year (this year I met the CEO of Apple while I was out there) is a BUSINESS.</p>
<p>I have found that your negative attitude unfortunately spreads throughout the entire site and not just this thread. I have posted some of your tasteless posts below so that other people on this thread will hopefully recognize the need to ignore what you write:</p>
<p>“There’s only one strategy for both SAT and ACT: WRITE FOUR FULL Ｆucking PAGES.”</p>
<p>“one day you children should learn going into the stanford website and use eye” (a reply to someone trying to get more information on Stanford)</p>
<p>"it is a well known fact that wearing bikini to the testing center can automatically get you above 33. </p>
<p>try that. </p>
<p>if you are too poor to buy a bikini, then your only way is suck up and keep…"</p>
<p>“damn, don’t be stupid AND CREATE ANOTHER ACCOUNT.”</p>
<p>“wow I am surprised there are actually human asking question like this”</p>
<p>“Harvard is extremely good at teaching their student flip a Big Mac paddie efficiently and deliciously in just under 30 seconds.”</p>
<p>“OMG retake and you would not get into any colleges if you don’t get straight 36s. 36 36 36 31 = FAIL, it has to be all 36s.”</p>
<p>The point is, you have provided nothing that is constructive on this site since the day you joined. I hope that you will look over this and recognize how you are coming across to people. Hopefully, you haven’t been intending to be as rude as you have been.</p>
<p>EDIT: I did read through your last post and remarkably did find a spot where you chanced me “Although with average grades, those people always attract top universities’ eyes, why? Because thankfully they are rare, also because those people are 10-20 years ahead of many others, including most adults.” Thanks for finally getting to the point of this thread, even though I know you didn’t intend to do so. I’m glad that you think that I have a great shot.</p>
<p>I think you know your chances better than all of us here…</p>
<p>Your stats.
Impressive.
:L
Makes people like me seem like mere peasants.</p>
<p>If you’re not lying (Which you probably aren’t, why would you) then you’re most likely getting in.</p>
<p>Then again, people who have had even better (yes, better) resumes have been rejected…
Even if you were to get rejected, there’s a myriad of schools out there that’ll GLADLY accept you…</p>
<p>Looks like you’re just showing off, you have everything top-notch and you want people to tell you your chances? Please…</p>
<p>I think the 34 ACT kills your application. Sorry. All the ECs are pretty conventional for applicants to Stanford (who doesn’t have some tech-centered application for that school?!)</p>
<p>You scare me. The fact that you’re on CC looking for something to which you already know the answer scares me even more. </p>
<p>Go to Harvard, and you will become a God. Go to Stanford, you will be a mere face in the crow, albeit one silently destroying everything we stand for. </p>
<p>Fine don’t believe me. But it’s in the papers, you seem to know a bit about those. THE DAY SHALL COME WHEN STANFORD WILL BE… DIFFERENT. I will not let that day as we anticipate it to arrive, yet I will submit myself wholly to the cause that aims to ensure that we reach a different-different day. An army is already being built to counter the uncouth pageantry of tech and computer. It’s in North Korea. Here, we do what we can. I am a top member in a budding revolution at the school. The target- John Arrillaga. He made his fortune in Silicon Valley real estate, and now for every penny he recklessly throws into the school four will be taken from his coffers. Four is our golden number, as there are four forms of natural beings in the new world order. Why king John? He didn’t build the computers that destroy humanity, after all. And a valid objection. But he made money from the degradation of the human condition, and he shall pay, not in life (that is the job of the North Koreans) but in everything else. This effort has already begun. I am but a footsoldier in this revolution, and these words I hopefully echo accurately from my dear leader. Stanford is the battleground for WWIII. It is not fought with guns, nor nucleochemical warfare. It is fought with the mind, with a thought. A thought that is appealing yet hidden, one that when exposed to all will blossom into a NEW WORLD ORDER. </p>
<p>In this new world order, there is no room for religion- no Jesus, no Muhammad, no Steve Jobs. The computer is only of value insofar as it is used to serve the revolutionary end. It is not an end in itself, it cannot be. People are not black, white, techie, stupid, smart, they are “merely” humans. All animals are subhuman, all plants are subnueral, and all minerals are sublife. This is not to say there is a heirarchy- each natural being is an end, not a mean. It should be noted that the natural being may be used to support another end, insofar as said end is deemed by the World Democracy to be Good. The Good is not a crime. As it is not a crime for the human to kill the tomato plant to live, it is not a crime for the gazelle to consume the human. </p>
<p>And so we live. It is not a life where one strives to get ahead- there is no point, inheritance is outlawed. Guns have no purpose, as once all guns are eliminated there is simply no goodly end that could be served with the gun. WORK IS LIFE AND LIFE IS WORK. </p>
<p>That is all.</p>
<p>To bring this thread back from the abyss of ***ness, i’d like to say that your passion really shined through in your thread. You clearly like your buisness and went above and beyond what you needed to do. You embody EXACTLY what Stanford is looking for and i hope I can be even close to your level of dedication when I apply.</p>
<p>Impressive application! What are some of your apps? I’d be interested in buying one of them and seeing what it’s all about. How long did it take to self teach yourself the programming?</p>
<p>Send me a pm and I’ll tell you what they are</p>
<p>Hi. Can you pm me the apps as well? I am a high school student who is also currently into iphone app development and would love to see your work!</p>
<p>Hey I have to agree with jellydonut, I have developed 3 apps on the app store but they don’t sell nearly as well as yours. Could you pm the names of your apps so that I can check them out. By any chance are you the guy that made bubble ball.</p>
<p>I think you are a definite contender. I wish you the best of luck. Like its already been mentioned make sure your resume, essay and supplementals truly depict your passions and astonishing ability. </p>
<p>I’m sure we will see you at the farm. </p>
<p>BTW with regard to your grades they aren’t terrible. Sure there are kids at Stanford who may have better gpa’s over four years but they may not have started up a successful company. Stanford will definitely take all of that into consideration. Not to mention you did very well on your SAT/ ACT and AP test. So obviously the ability to do well is all there. You should be a strong contender.</p>
<p>Let us know the final outcome!!!:)</p>