<p>Good god, child. Your stats outshine most peoples’ on these boards. Or maybe just mine. But come on. Ridic impressive. You should know that.</p>
<p>That being said, your essay sounds really interesting and potentially really funny. HOWEVER. Make sure you have other people with different senses of humor than yourself read it first, because if you’re going to go for humor you’ve got to nail it. I am not generally a laugh out loud hilarious writer, so I didn’t try to magically become one overnight for my college essays. I did, however, take a very random topic and write about it totally seriously, which sort of served the same purpose. One approach to think about.</p>
<p>Regarding the presentation of your many accomplishments. Resume isn’t a bad idea. For MIT, pick out your main ECs or group them or however you want to do it. Pick out a few of your main accomplishments under each, list those under honors and then maybe something like “see attached” at the end of each list, if you still have more. I sent a professor rec, too, so I don’t think that’s too much. However, stick to just an abstract and you can include that as the “something you created” essay. Then, explain what that project meant to you. I spent 3 sentences just saying why I loved working on that project over the summer, that I really wanted to pursue the same general topic in college, and then listed a couple labs that I would kill to UROP in. Or something like that, you get the point.</p>
<p>You can be the most awesome applicant ever and still not get in because you don’t know how to best present your accomplishments. Spend a lot of time just making sure your application flows and has some organic internal unity and really would allow someone you’ve never met to get a clear picture of who you are and what you’ve done.</p>