<p>@ Salve. Agreed. I should add, many other students that want to go and end up at good colleges aren’t very proactive regarding like building a “wow” resume. That MIT page certainly showed that, as many admits seemed like just your normal high school student- certainly not that ISEF girl. And that’s MIT! I’m sure like at more laidback schools like Brown or Rice there are even more students who just did what they wanted to do, without factoring in college admissions into their activities. So yeah. </p>
<p>OP: My previous post might have been interpreted as sarcastic (now that I read it again). It’s not. I actually would prefer you do that then go out and stress your *** off for something you may not be passionate about. Just enjoy the last couple years of HS while you still can.</p>
<p>Exactly! Just because someone is not valedictorian or in a million clubs or published some science paper, it doesn’t mean that they can’t get into a good school like MIT.</p>
<p>Haha yea I was wondering how you meant that to sound :S </p>
<p>But yea… I’ve done a lot of research on schools and while MIT is good, UT Austin is largely agreed to be one of the top 10 Engineering schools in the US. At the risk of sounding arrogant, I’m kind of a shoe in there based on the past students at my school who’ve ended up there.</p>
<p>I feel fulfilled coming home from school and doing homework till dinner time because I always pick classes that interest me and better myself. If I had to do that on top of driving over to Rice or UH or something every afternoon to do research, I think I’d get out of shape and lose all of my hair… :S</p>
<p>But yea thanks for your input, guys. I’ll update this in a year and a half… on judgement day. Lmao.</p>