Will I get into stanford

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As you can tell Stanford is my dream college. My chances are slim I can tell - my grades are not up to par but I would like an honest opinion.

Location: Australia
FA Needed: YES. Probably can pay $30k AUD a year.

Year 8 Grades: Straight A’s
Year 9 Grades: Straight A’s
Year 10 Grades: Straight A’s

I’m currently in Year 11, things have taken a turn. Remember that our ATAR subjects (max 6) are equivalent to first year university subjects. I study all the time but my grades just aren’t up to par (still would place me in top 6%). For background info, ATAR is calculated based off your top 4 subjects, however, given that I failed two subjects, colleges would probably view this negatively.

Year 11 Subjects (Currently mid-year):
Accounting and Finance: 80% (A)
Economics: 75% (A)
Maths Applications: 85% (A)
English: 75% (A)
Chemistry: 48% (D)
Maths Methods: 52% (C/D)

ATAR is calculated from top for subjects so my estimated ATAR is 94.35, placing me in the top 5.65%. How would colleges view my failed subjects though?

Extra Curriculars:
I’m into entrepreneurship and startups.

Year 9: Did nothing apart from random tennis lessons. Wasn’t into entrepreneurship yet.
Year 10:

  • Co-founded and was COO of Scrimbox (upcoming startup) till June. Stopped to work on Comblie.
  • Comblie, April 2015 - December 2015. Had a remote team and everything but the social network APIs changed.
  • Briefly COO of Arlix Technologies which is a teen tech company.
  • Mocktrials team. (few clubs at school)

Year 11 (Current):

  • Co-founded digital agency, although thats not really going anywhere so I’ve stopped operations.
  • Board Member and Director of Expansion in Australia for SecondGen which is a an organisation for youth entrepreneurship. My roles include expanding SecondGen clubs throughout schools in Australia, hosting events, and growing the youth in entrepreneurship community.
  • Side project: TheStartupLife - a snapchat where we get popular startup founders to takeover the account for a day.
  • I also buy a lot of apps and monetise them, made like $10k in a month - not sure if this counts as an extracurricular?
  • Work remotely for a NYC social media startup. This is a paid job. 15 hours a week.

  • PerthStartups which is a Slack page for entrepreneurs in Perth. Organise meetups and record podcasts.

  • I'm also really interested in fashion so my friend and I have started an online fashion magazine (similar to Vogue but for a different audience) - it hasn't launched yet.

SAT/ACT: On my previous posts I said I could remember and from memory it was around 2300. I just checked and horrified it was actually 2150

SAT IIs: Haven’t taken. Will probably do Math I and Chemistry. Or I might not take them at all since evidently those aren’t my strong subjects.

As you can tell I’m not a competitive applicant. I used to think I was until I wrote this out. I would really appreciate your chances for the following schools:

Stanford
Harvard
UC Berkeley
NYU
Columbia
UPenn
Boston College
Princeton
Yale
USC
UCLA

Major: Communications/ Public Relations/ Marketing - anything along those lines.

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Your D’s will make it very challenging to get into a good college. I don’t understand why you can only pay $30,000 when you make $10,000 a month.

3

But my ATAR is really good?

Um, it’s business. You don’t just make $10k a month, its like the share market. @deaston

4

You should shoot for Syracuse, Missouri, Northwestern etc and retake the D’s over the summer so they are off your transcript

5

Lot of business experience on this site. When you say you make $10,000/month without clarifiers you will get that response. Do you mean $10k in revenue? What is you net profit? What do you mean market share? Market share is the percentage of the market that you have, not a dollar amount.

6

Those D/C’s eliminate most of those schools for you, if not all!

7

top schools look at academic performance. Reset your goals.