<p>You can check out the decisions threads from EA this year and from EA and RD last year, which are stickied at the top of this forum. Not all applicants post here, of course, but it you leaf through those threads you can get an idea of the types of students who are admitted to MIT each year.</p>
<p>It’s really difficult to be admitted to MIT regardless of how strong your profile is, however, so nobody really has a “good” shot. That’s absolutely not meant to be discouraging, and you sound like you’re doing a lot of things that make you happy and intellectually excited, and that’s a very good thing. But no combination of things will guarantee you admission to MIT – just keep that in mind. You should do things in high school that you would have done regardless of whether you get into MIT in the end or not.</p>
<p>You can find a page with MIT’s recommended high school preparation [url=<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/before/recommended_high_school_preparation/index.shtml]here[/url”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/before/recommended_high_school_preparation/index.shtml]here[/url</a>]. If you have the ability and inclination to take them, the more honors and AP math and science classes you can take, the better – they’ll help in admissions, of course, but they’ll also help you survive once you get to MIT.</p>