MIT Class of 2030 ---> Early Action

Hey everyone! As you can tell from the title, I'm an Applicant to the MIT Class of 2030.

Here's my profile, and do let me know what you think (counting down to decisions day, pretty excited and having a mixed set of emotions):

Demographics: South-East Asian Male, Middle-Income (Working) & International Applicant, holding permanent residency to the States (with SSN).

Stats:
SAT: 1590, RW: 790, Math: 800, GPA (Unweighted): 9.68/10.00, Graduated Class Valedictorian.

Taken accelerated STEM programs in junior & senior year of high school in linear algebra, stochastic calc & advanced mechanics + o/chem with general & physical chemistry.

Extracurriculars:

Foreign exchange research scholarship program @ CERN through CERN-SOLVAY research STEM boot camp, at the laboratory of particle physics, conducted research.

Was part of a two-month boot camp @ SETI Institute, studied mars geomorphology, star clusters & presented a project in front of a group of 12 panelists, including researchers associated with NASA & JAXA (in the dept. of astrobiology & ET research) in 2024.

Held a NASA-research internship through the NASA-OSTEM Artemis Program, Cohort 1B, working with stellar synthesis research + had a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, on Ion-Propulsion systems through the TnG Millenium Royal Letters, Special Issue, In August of 2025.

Paper published has also been submitted for Regeneron Science Talent Search, 2025.

I am further part of the Quest-Bridge Scholars Program in 2025. [National College Match] on Regular Decision Rankings.

As part of community service, I have worked at local orphanages, organizing regular medical checks to prevent any harmful outbreaks within facilities & also regular visits on weekends to local old age homes, often presenting entertaining events/programs for the elderly. In addition, I have been part of the American Corner in my city, for the past couple of years, to provide information about US admissions, and also information on IoT and regular information tech & AI system modelling to underprivileged students.

As for Awards:

I did regional mathematics Olympiad, and have won gold in 2022 & 2024, and National Astronomy Olympiads, Ending with National Rank- 8 (2023).

NASA- KIBO RPC, robotics challenge semi-finalist (as an international representative) in 2024, presenting on autonomy of space systems & modelling.

CHIF International Debate Best Speaker Award Recipient in 2022 as a high-school freshman.

Nationals, Track & Field Gold Medalist (800m dash- Gold in 2023, 1500m dash gold in 2022).

My letters of recommendation were from the Head of Departments in Arts & Sciences, and the school counsellor with an additional LOR from my research mentor @ MIT Aero/Astro.

So yeah, thats basically it, and I hope y'all will have a little fun reading this app. Haha.