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[quote=Anonymous][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. [/quote]
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]
[b]In fairness, mid 1500s today would have been high 1300s 30 years ago[/b]--and not a golden ticket to the most selective schools.[/quote]

You’re right. Due to the several rounds of re-norming since then, a 1400 is equivalent to a mid/high 1500. I got a 1400 in 1984.  Terrible grades so I didn’t even try to apply to any really good schools, but I remember looking at the average SAT scores for Harvard and MIT at the time and they were all in the mid/high 1300s.

The dumbing down on the SAT honestly is a bad thing.  If I took it now I’d almost certainly be very close to 1600, but I was nowhere close to the smartest kid in my class.  The score inflation has really hurt the truly smart kids who now get lumped together with people like me.[/quote]

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