During Freshman year, myself and 2 other friends decided to start a company. We created a YouTube channel and made our own website. We buy phones for cheap prices and sell them for more. We are now a premier seller on Amazon. If I mention this in my application and also in my essay does this help my chances of getting into certain reach business schools like villanova, Boston college, wake forest? My stats are a little low but are going to improve. I have a 28 on the ACT but I’m taking it again this Saturday and know I can get a 31. I’m m a senior and I really increased my strength of schedule with 3 AP Classes this year. My GPA is 3.72 right now but will improve this semester. I attend a private college prep school. Does the business look good on my application/essay?
I imagine it will be regarded as a nice EC. But in general (unless you are a recruited athlete or something along those lines) ECs don’t make up for below standard academic stats. If you can improve your ACT that will certainly strengthen your application. Since you are in a private college prep school you should be getting good college advice – I suggest you talk to your guidance counselors and apply to a mix of reach, match, and safety schools that you like and that appear affordable. Perhaps consider adding Fordham (Gabelli Business School) into your mix (the school has non-binding EA) as more of a match/safety.
It is a good EC and can make a good essay topic but it is one part of you application. Could it help your application? Sure just as much as any quality EC would but I still think they are going to be looking for other things as well.
Of course that is impressive, but you need to build your college list from the bottom up: first schools safety and match schools where your grades and test scores are in range, then add a couple reach schools.
Junior year is the last full year of grades before college applications are due so they are heavily considered. Improving during first term of senior year helps some, but your final grades and AP scores just aren’t available in time.
It might, but the only ones who will know will be the adcoms when they’re discussing their application.
Would you have started that business if you weren’t headed to college?
Many high students who start their own businesses do so to impress adcoms. A few start them because it’s inherent in who they are. College adcoms are skilled at assessing which camp an applicant falls into.
@jpm50 no it was not just for impressing colleges. We did it becasue we truly thought it was a good idea.
In your case, colleges may want to see your revenue amount. If it is over $50K, then it would be impressive, but if it is only only about $2K to 3K, then not much.