Will Stanford Overlook Horrendous Freshman & Junior Grades?

EduHacker
Tue, 15 Apr 2014 02:04:18 +0000

I’m currently a Junior, but take a course in grade 11 comsci. As a web developer and entrepreneur, I’ve founded numerous projects and is to be named “Top 20 under 20” on Profit magazine. At the beginning of the year I had the mindset to get straight As, but in the past few months have skipped almost every day of school working on projects from home.I’ve went from 94% (which I consider mediocre), to a 75% average.

That said, I have a trend of B-C grades. I always start the year with a 95%, then my grades drop signifigantly as I become completely emersed with the business I’m running. I constantly weigh the value of going to school and studying academia, versus developing the next big thing for the web. Usually, coding wins over. I don’t see achieving success by balancing my studies possible.

If I put time and dedication into school, I’m able to achieve reasonably high grades. I feel that the time and dedication is better put in the focus of achieving success in my projects. Let’s assume in grade 11/ 12 I achieve a 93% average – which is a major upward trend from my current average, will admission officers overlook the horrendous Junior/ Freshman year? I know Stanford looks for people with passion, dedication and achievement. But how flexible are they with low-academia achievement?