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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree with PP, I think your child has done something quite uncommon and wonderful. He's not the only high schooler creating apps and selling them, but he's part of a much smaller group than my son, loaded up on APs, as you said :-)

He definitely needs to write about his career in his essays. Something really thoughtful about how his entrepreneurship has made him grow as a person, develop a work ethic in the real world and made him ready for college and beyond.

All applications will have the space for details about his work, but the clincher is the essay, because it's the only way for him to show how he thinks about his career. He MUST include the dollar amounts and as many factual details as he can, to make convincing and show this isn't piddling money.

If he has gotten to know one or two professionals well, perhaps they can write a letter of recommendation for him, to add to the ones from his teachers. 
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Ok so the essay portion will speak to this? I am concerned they will be glossed over. We've also talked to him about using some of his earnings towards a college admission counselor which are sometimes in the 5k range. We just feel the admissions process is overlooking his situation. His sats are also very good in the mid 1500s. Its just odd as 30 years a go the test scores alone would guarantee admission but it seems that things have changed especially with all the test optional things going on.[/quote]

PP you replied to. You've got it backwards, OP. Kids apply to uni coming from all sorts of unusual and atypical backgrounds, so they have to be creative and use the standard apps to their advantage. Please don't waste your money on a college counselor! I know it's tempting early in the process when you don't have a clue and panic, but I PROMISE you that when you (not quite the royal you, let's just say the family you) read the essay prompts and take a look at the Common App and other app forms for non-Common App colleges, you'll see where to include the information and you'll feel much more confident.

Re the essay prompts. Kids tend to take them literally. No. Be like a politician, who when they're asked a question, reply then smoothly segue into their intended message. That's what kids need to do and it's an area where their more mature parents can definitely advise them. Tell your kid: pick the essay that's closest to what YOU want to present about yourself, and you use all your intelligence and wordplay to make the content fit the prompt. That's the name of the game, OP. It advantages those who are good creative writers. My son is a great technical writer, and my dear goodness, did he suffer with his essays! He just couldn't talk about himself. Kids need to get over that!
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