<p>All of the admissions committee members on CC have "College Representative" under their usernames where the rest of us have "Junior Member", "Senior Member", etc.</p>
<p>Research/IMO/IPhO/ICO/IBO won’t be your magic ticket into MIT. They consider a lot of other things as well.</p>
<p>I got in EA. I have no previous research experience. did not do any olympiads. actually, i met a couple of people like that during CPW. so, no worries there folks.</p>