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<p>It definitely helps earn an eye-catcher for admission officers (as in they will be able to refer to you as the cool applicant who started his own company), but you’ve got to do just more than that. Many students who apply to Wharton have started his/her own company or have worked/interned at impressive places.</p>
<p>The most important thing, however, is still your grade. Your GPA is a bit low (perhaps your starting a company will make up for your bad GPA freshmen year). It’s important to show an upward trend, which you have in your case. The case for Wharton, and most other schools up there is: GPA, SAT, Leadership, Essays, Recs, and other extra-curriculars in that order. I’m not sure where exactly where your situation would be placed in, perhaps in the essay category if you know what I mean. </p>
<p>To answer your question above, nobody can say whether it carries the same amount of weight as any award; it’s more important that you emphasize your experience from this company. The more you focus on it, the better you can highlight your love for business to the admissions people. </p>
<p>Having said this, Wharton stresses that its applicant do not previous experience business to be accepted; on the other hand, it does stress leadership. So perhaps you can expand this business by involving your fellow classmates or friends. That way, you can be the leader at the same time. Don’t keep this company to yourself. In addition, seeing that you can earn $4000 a month, which is above what an average American earns, have you considered donating or applying that money elsewhere? I feel you can use some of your earnings to support a charitable foundation (or YOU CAN START ONE YOURSELF…maybe microfinancing, which is what I wanted to do). Perhaps you can dabble in some stocks experience (albeit it seems like a bad time to do so, seeing the risk of a double dip). In any case, don’t hog your money to yourself either; do something useful with it, because if this helps you get in a prestigious college (Wharton, Harvard, whatever), you’ll earn much more than this afterward. </p>
<p>Best of luck. =]</p>
<p>Thanks for the response.My profit isn’t $4k. I get $4k but that’s the total earnings. I need to give about half of that to the members of the site and then about $1.5k is given to my mom. I would love to start a charity but I don’t know how. I don’t even know what cause my charity would collect money for.</p>
<p>They look more closely at the GPA portion from the latter 3 years of high school. Ivies and even Wharton surprisingly but fortunately understand that many brilliant students such as yourself may have floundered around freshman year. It’s alright for you because you took that 2.8 and pulled it up to a significantly higher GPA over sophomore, junior, and senior year as it shows a continued improvement in your “craft”.</p>
<p>Your website will help a bit, but you shouldn’t put your eggs in that basket. Remember, there are some kids applying with business running on million dollar budgets.</p>
<p>^Really…? What type of websites are those? I’m not using the website to get me into a school, IDk why you guys think I’m relying on this to get me into Wharton.</p>
<p>@MegaFund and Reeee: Also, you have to consider who is in your school also applying to Penn/Wharton. Because if a kid has consistently received A’s (even Freshman Year), versus another with a not-so-hot Freshman Year, the first student (all A’s) will be seen with a higher academic potential based on the transcript.</p>
<p>^ My school doesn’t send students to top 100 schools. Maybe they did 4-5 years ago but recently the school has been doing terribly. If I was apply to a community college in NY, then I’ll have people from my school applying to the same schools as me.</p>
<p>bump .</p>
<p>@MegaFund: Ok, I’m just speaking from my own examples. My school is a bit competitive (as are most others), and when a handful (5-7) apply to an Ivy League school like Penn, with a range of GPAs/grades, people are often “surprised” that only 1-3 get in, and those were all students with the higher GPAs/all A (or close to it) transcripts. To me, it seems like common sense–why pick a student with all Bs/Cs freshman year when there are applicants from the same pool with all As every year, similar/higher test scores, and just as solid rec letters, essays, and ECs?</p>
<p>^ I understood what you were saying. What I’m saying is that my school send NOBODY to top schools so I would have no competitiion from my school. My school is located on the state school’s campus so it sends most of the kids to the state school.</p>
<p>^Gotcha. Those odds will help you!</p>
<p>^ I hope so.</p>
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<p>Sure, lots of people with very impressive backgrounds. A friend of mine got into Harvard (17) who created algorithms for trading currencies that he sold to HSBC, JP Morgan and a few others for a very impressive amount of money.</p>
<p>What I’ve found through friends that have got into good schools and myself looking into transfers since I couldn’t apply right out of HS is substance to your successes.</p>
<p>Lots of kids out there making relatively substantial amount of money, including myself, but I know I’ll never beat a kid applying who runs a charity and has been endorsed by a prominent politician or businessman even if he brings in the same money as me.</p>
<p>Take your money and strategically place it in charities that you can attain a prominent position or title at and do things that show there’s a lot of substance and passion to you and your application.</p>
<p>^ You’re right. I’ve been looking into starting my own charity but haven’t found my niche yet.</p>
<p>bump .</p>