This is a theoretical situation, but I was wondering your thoughts on how it would look.
Was it a fire sale?
You would still need grades and SAT/ACT scores within range. The exception is if you personally became famous as a result of the company but you would still need to be at the 25th% of admitted students
Terrible, you’d get rejected immediately.
Would need more details but it would obviously be a significant activity that demonstrates qualities the top colleges are looking for. If your question is specifically about acquisition, it wouldn’t necessarily look better than just starting a company but I guess it does validate that your product was valuable.
I disagree ^^ I think if you are aquired or have a company with verifieable revenues, that is much more impressive than a mere patent pending. I know people with patent pendings and colleges did not care more than they would with band or WIC.
@SaphireNY sorry I wasn’t clear. In saying that it is ‘not necessarily’ better, I meant to suggest that having a successful company generating revenue could be equivalent to being acquired as an endpoint.
Probably very good, if it was acquired by a reputable company that means you are very good at what you were doing.
It shows that you already have had lots of success in the field of business and given that your GPA and SAT’s are decent (don’t necessarily have to be 4.0/2300 given your circumstances) you should be in.
Ivies want people that have the potential for success in the future. If you sold your company to Yahoo let’s say, then you basically demonstrated tremendous success in that regard (if this was your company and you were the one mainly running it)
I’d say realistically you’d be a shoe-in at most ivies.
One caveat, that there is no older family member (parent, sibling, Aunt) really running it