Grades!

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<p>So, long story short, I started a company when I was in 9th grade that has blown up into being quite successful. Basically, I make iPhone apps and 1 in 16 US teenagers now have at least of my apps (I taught myself programming from online Stanford courses). However, running a company like this (the apps aren't just popular, they are also profitable) takes quite a bit of work which really took a toll on my grades freshman and sophomore years.</p>

<p>Luckily for me, Stanford says on their website that they don't take in to consideration freshman year grades. So, the questions that I have are:</p>

<p>1) Is that really true? No emphasis at all?</p>

<p>2) I still had half As, half Bs sophomore year. How much of an impact will this have on my application? Note that sophomore year was my most business work intensive year since one of my applications reached #2 in the top charts for the entire App Store which resulted in me flying across the country to meet with different CEOs of major gaming companies to talk about potential partnerships.</p>

<p>3) Junior year, I had an 89 for one semester (averaged to a 90 for the year) as a result of what doctors thought was potentially malaria that I had gotten from a mission trip to Belize. All of the rest of my grades that year were As. Will this 89 semester grade have much of an impact?</p>

<p>Lastly, I was wondering if someone could chance me based on my chance thread that can be found here: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/1376355-chance-me-stanford.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/1376355-chance-me-stanford.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The reason why bringing this up again is because some people got very off topic on my last chance thread, and it basically turned into a few "trolls" doing everything that they could to bash me. Also please note that I have included more detailed information about my grades in this thread which would help out with the chancing. Lastly, please use a 33 ACT for the "chance" instead of what I had projected to be a 34.</p>

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<p>Your grades aren’t the greatest, one of the big things Stanford says is that they want to make sure you can handle the rigor of Stanford. Your business is great but if you can’t get near a 3.8 unweighted GPA it will be tough. Although your business is a great hook (make sure you give lots of info on that and link to articles that show how famous you got). If you really pressure that hook you can get in. But I think if you don’t get in it will be due to grades.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>