MITES, RSI, and MIT

Hello, I’m a Chinese American, first-generation junior from a small school in Kentucky with around 660 students. I’m currently at the top or around the top in my class(of 150-200), and my extracurriculars are:

Academic Team- Competed in the statewide KAAC tournament with the Quick Recall team as a starter and placed 5th with three other schools, and have been doing this since 6th grade. One of the captains of the QR team

Science Olympiad- Competed and won in regionals as a whole in the school, placed 4th in Astronomy and 3rd in Fermi Questions in-state first year, and placed 2nd in Experimental Design sophomore year. I also was the astronomy coach in my sophomore year.

Quiz bowl- I competed in many tournaments on a team around the nation and in the Small School National Tournament in both my first and second years. My first year, I competed in the A-team, and the team got 8th place. I competed in the B-team my sophomore year and placed 1st in rising star overall in the tournament by scoring the most out of all first- and second-year students. One of the captains of the Quiz bowl team

STLP- Designed a website that promoted reading skills and information gathering among students of the school for the project, which was able to make it into the state

Sophomore Class President

NHS

Beta Club: Competed in the Beta Club testing for science in my first and second years and got 3rd at the state level, allowing me to test in nationals. I got placed in nationals both years, getting 8th and 9th consecutively.

KYA- Participated in a model state government in both my first and second years, helped write the bill for my school, and participated as a delegate

Band: I played the flute in both concert and marching bands during my first year, and the marching band show reached state during that year.

Works at my parents’ restaurant since I was 6, which included hosting and serving customers, making sushi, helping in the kitchen, being a manager, and being a busboy

Awarded the National First-Generation Recognition Program by Collegeboard

Has over 100 hours of volunteering, which includes an arts center, a dog shelter, Environment club, tutoring, and others

4.0 GPA unweighted, and a 4.13 GPA(due to not being able to take many APs my freshman and sophomore years, as my school didn’t allow me to do so) excluding this year

Took a College Physics course offered by a local college

Took AP Psychology and got a 4

Is taking AP Calc AB, AP Gov, APUSH, APES, AP Lang, and AP Chem, with a special topics class for the academic team, which doesn’t count as a credit or class

33 on the ACT, but is retaking it aiming for a 35, and 1350 on the PSAT my sophomore year but is retaking it this year

I am currently working on an engineering project that utilizes a moving telescope that can be controlled on a website to promote engineering and astronomy locally and statewide, as well as an ACT peer tutoring club/class for students who wish to make their scores higher

What are my chances of getting into these summer programs, and what can I improve to try to get into MIT?

Thank you!