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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child has made over 20k/year building apps over the last 5 years. He also has sold rights to apps and created license and use contracts for certain sales that give him income after the sale.

How can we make sure colleges notice this, and he doesn't get lost in the mix of others with generic stats like AP courses, leadership, volunteering, teacher recommendations etc.

Our child also hasn't loaded up in APs courses, only in Math and English.

On paper he could be hired by a tech company as an entry level developer (I am a hiring manager for a big tech company, I know) but I am not sure if colleges will look at this. He even has a resume that lists out all his projects and licensing agreements.[/quote]

I’m an engineering manager, and I’m quite surprised to hear that anyone would enter into a software licensing agreement with a minor.  Honestly, I’d expect AO’s with any business background to be very skeptical of this as well.

Also, having seen a lot of code written by untrained folks (code that works but doesn’t follow standards, is unmaintainable, replicates language features that the developer didn’t know about, etc.) I’d be surprised that anybody in tech would buy anything created by a minor. [/quote]

Dad is in the field too which gives me the parent doing the homework vibes.[/quote]

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