<p>My father, brother and I developed and marketed an App (and eventually sold for 6.5m, but our dad made us do A LOT of the work to learn business lessons) and that made me wonder if that would make me above the rest of the applicants (infer I look like an average applicant beforehand)</p>
<p>OK, average for stanford or average for USA?</p>
<p>If you have a 1450 on the SAT and a 2.0 gpa, I seriously doubt it, unless what you did is truly exceptional. If you have, let’s say, 2300 SAT and >3.8 gpa, then this may well tip the balance in your favour.</p>
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I don’t think you need college.</p>
<p><a href=“Stanford Earns $336 Million Off Google Stock - Redorbit”>http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/318480/stanford_earns_336_million_off_google_stock/</a></p>
<p>Since you’ve already sold the app, you won’t be bringing Stanford immediate cash like they got from Google. But, the topic of your company and its sale certainly would make for a great essay topic which, if done with humility, might increase your chances at any college.</p>
<p>App =/= company, but it’s still impressive and, as gibby said, could make for a very interesting essay topic elaborating your involvement and developments if written well.</p>
<p>Edit: I’m quite curious… how’d you guys develop an app in just over a month? You yourself said that the average app takes 18 weeks to make, and you only have maybe 3 people? 30 weeks if it’s you and your brother only, right?</p>
<p>Edit: Hold up. You’re the one that started the summer projects thread in High School Life. Your plan was to create an app company and it hasn’t even been a month since that post. How the hell would you have actually been able to create (AKA pay a guy to do it for you, and NOT develop it with your dad and brother), market, and sell an app in less than 3 weeks?</p>
<p>Sometimes ridiculous opinion makes a thread bogus here in cc. Heard of feross aboukhadijeh? He made youtube instant in 3 hours. If an app seriously needed 18 weeks to make then you would never see an app for any phone. And who bought an app company which have no history for 6.5 million? I know someone who has ~250 apps in different platforms and yet, no company has bought his startup yet.</p>
<p>You have not shared your stats to gain any meaningful advice.
There some stats that no amount of money can help a college waive some requirements.
So spill the beans…(SAT, ACT, GPA, EC’S etc).
Best of luck.</p>
<p>@drexter There are of course many other factors too. The guy you cited probably had extensive coding knowledge to be able to code an app in just three hours. Brutum (the OP) said in previous posts/threads that he was planning on creating an app, learning to code, and, in one post, paying a guy to code it for him (which would still probably have taken more than just three hours).</p>
<p>@ccco2018 He’s an incoming freshman, so he doesn’t have any stats.</p>
<p>Donate 5m of the 6.5m to Stanford, which leaves each of you with $500k each.</p>
<p>@capitalamerica yes he did but who will buy a startup for 6.5 millions from 3 people who had to pay other to make apps? he’s planning not sold the company yet. If he id, then I don’t see the fear of Stanford rejection. if he has typical Stanford stats, then he’ll breeze in. and Feross is a Stanford student. Google it.</p>
<p>@soze you just made the reply of the year. lol. he’ll get in even with 1500 SAT.</p>
<p>Then lets put this thread on hold to re-activate during his summer holidays when he is about to be a senior and start college application…LOL.
You stats matters more. So keep doing what you are doing, its business and has absolutely nothing to do with your college acceptance.
When you start college, no one will care what business you are running, except attending and passing the classes that you enrolled in.
Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Good one @soze;
I wish people realize that “MONEY” can not buy you everything. Not even happiness at Stanford. You might get in, but will you be happy there or will you drop out and run back home after few weeks…
Hard-work, dedication and playing by the rules will serve us all well.</p>
<p>I’m crossing a bridge, and I’m sensing a ■■■■■. If you had the knowledge and capability to make a million dollar app, you should be able to call up Stanford yourself and ask. And as a very news savvy person, I’m sure I’d see it in the news if a teen engineer designed as app that was sold for several million dollars seeing that that is not a common occurrence. But that’s just my $.02</p>
<p>App is not that uncommon. My daughter’s friend get paid to develop app but he was denied for CS major at her college, which is no Stanford. I kind of seriously doubt about the 6.5M app.
I googled and found Angry Birds is one app sold for 6.5M so I take back the doubt part.
<a href=“Angry Birds sells 6.5M units on iPhone and flies to new smartphones | VentureBeat”>http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/13/angry-birds-sells-6-5m-units-on-iphone-and-flies-to-new-smartphones/</a></p>
<p>I don’t really think OP did this either. It’s all hypotheticals. People often don’t entertain “what if” questions on here so posters turn their theoreticals into truths to get more responses. Someone who created an app valuable enough to be bought out by another company for 6.5M wouldn’t be spending his time trawling CC for answers.</p>
<p>OP can cross that bridge when he gets there. If I recall correctly, he’s either a freshman in high school or not even there yet, and has plenty of time to get his college application in order. Good luck, buddy! </p>
<p>@DrGoogle it’s not that uncommon I’ve seen a boy selling an app for millions (can’t remember but I saw).</p>
<p>but I seriously doubt a person has made such an app and it went unnoticed by developers. And interestingly enough, most of these developers (solid experience) have great connections with top companies and university officials (Stanford comes to mind first as nothing goes on unnoticed in this place (anything great happening in silicon valley)).</p>
<p>@DrGoogle That article talks about 6.5M units sold. Which means that it was downloaded onto 6.5M devices. I think the OP is talking about $6.5M dollars.</p>
<p>My eyes are bad today, hard to read.</p>
<p>As a programmer I would like to say that it is nearly impossible to finish a high quality app in 3 weeks without good design (UI) and very extensive knowledge for programming on the platform, sure, some people do this with ease in a day or shorter but its pretty obvious that they have prior experience for at least 1 year minimum and/or making something basic (which is most of the case).</p>