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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]

Write about it in the essay.  Emphasize his love and desire for learning CS with leading professors despite the job; List it as an activity with the level of income included in the description (Self-employed software developer earning $20k/yr; 20 hrs a week); Include a resume that clearly shows his self employment and length of time.

Colleges will absolutely prefer someone like him over an AP-loaded kid (which is the vast majority of apps they see).  Let's not kid ourselves.  The primary reason for college for a is to eventually get a high paying job, which your kid already has.  Only a foolish college admissions counselor would ignore this.[/quote]

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