<p>Because as of right now, I have the grades and the test scores, but my ECs are pretty mediocre. I have several leadership positions and am a member of several clubs, volunteer, etc. etc.</p>
<p>But, I have no real hooks. However, I do have a site that's growing and I expect it to earn around 1k a month by admissions time. Everything was done by myself. Is this something of value to adcoms? How am I supposed to put something like this on my app?</p>
<p>The colleges I'm looking into right now are mainly top schools (i.e. Northwestern, Tufts, UMich, CMU, etc.).</p>
<p>Thanks guys!</p>
<p>fwiw, 12k is not several thousand dollars, especially after taxes and fees. whats the website for?</p>
<p>True, it only started making that amount.</p>
<p>But regardless, the amount is around 1k per month before taxes. I don’t want to out the link, but it’s in a money niche (i.e. how to make money). I make money through affiliate sales and Google Adsense. It’s a blog.</p>
<p>It may or may not help as an EC, but I doubt any adcom would be repulsed unless you were running a neo-Nazi site or something. One area where I definitely think that the site (well, the story of how you created it and how it became profitable) can help is if you have an essay for the application. Chances are you probably learned something in terms of organization, responsibility, and discipline (for example); if you can spin a good essay out of that it could certainly be helpful!</p>
<p>Many schools look at a job the same as they do an EC, and if you position this like a job, that would be a real positive. It shows organization, initiative and creativity.</p>
<p>Why wouldn’t it? It’s cool.</p>
<p>Alright thanks guys. It’s just that I have no real great ECs under my belt, and I’m sort of worrying that colleges will pass me by as lazy. I’m not looking into HYPS or anything, but I’m hoping that a couple of hard-earning websites will help me out a bit.</p>