Well, thanks all for your advice. When the time comes I’ll do my best in the admissions, and if I don’t get into MIT et al, I’ll just move on. My family members have faith in me that I will do my best to try to get in, and they support me more than I support myself (when people ask me what college I want to go to, I timidly respond “MIT,” but my dad will just blurt it out). Many people who have left MIT doing great stuff, but many more that didn’t go to MIT and still left a huge impact where I want to study.
I wanted to take this time to look back at my high school career (I did many things in middle school too and took a couple of leadership positions, but they are somewhat irrelevant now). There are a number of things that I forgot to include in my list of ECs, but instead of adding them to the list I will save them for my applications.
Having other people judge my life is often discouraging, but I felt that it had to be done. Now that I have evaluated myself, I will go back to real life and make a difference as I had done before, but this time with a slightly more confident attitude.