Evaluate a special kind of extracurricular activity

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<p>I am applying to Stanford, uPenn, Harvard and Cornell.</p>

<p>How interested would these universities be in the fact that I have founded my own startup (additional info: <a href="http://monitiobracelet.com/index.html"&gt;http://monitiobracelet.com/index.html&lt;/a&gt;), won first prizes in several startup competitions in Slovenia and Croatia, have 4 students from different fields working on it and signed a contract with the startup's first investor (a consultant from The Boston Consulting Group).</p>

<p>I am from Slovenia (parents from Bosnia), have other interesting extracurricular activites, excellent grades in IB, SATs still to take, but I would like you to focus on the mentioned extracurricular activity - is it just me or is owning a startup something these universities would be very interested in?</p>

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<p>Depends I guess. Last year there was a student admitted to Stanford with a startup that raised 500,000$ USD and he didn’t need FA because of it. It’ll definitely seem more impressive than some of the more generic ECs most of us are submitting. </p>

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<p>Thank you for your response. I’m sorry, what is an FA? </p>

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<p>FA = fiancial aid @mrblack.</p>

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<p>Considering the depth of your involvement and the leadership and creativity it took to make, I would say that it will help a lot!</p>