<p>I have over 1500+ hours of lab work and I’ll be working at Oxford this summer to collaborate on a project. In november, I gave a lecture at Harvard. The MIT admissions officers said that because I was going after actual papers instead of research-less science fairs, I was more ‘complex,’ even though my parents have been unemployed for 4 years and they make nothing. I am committed to my major and I have the props to show for it. Ask around for internships and prepare for Intel STS. College fairs are not important compared to insuring you get admitted.</p>