<p>OK, to respond to a number of points brought up, from the perspective of another Australian.
- Guidance counselor should fill out the documentation and supply relevant details appropriate to your high school, as well as some sort of explanation of the system. Many top schools will have generic forms that cover all the required details for understanding the results.
- List your High School subjects as relevant.
- Are those camps compulsory for your school? If they are then do not list them, but if they are of your own initiative/hard-to-get-into, they definitely put them down.</p>
<p>As an aside, MIT accepts probably 1-2 Australians a year. SATs do matter - I haven’t heard of an Australian getting into MIT without something like 2350+ in recent years, although obviously if you have fantastic extracurriculars that will not matter as much. Of course, that means if there are stronger candidates from your school who are also Australian, then it becomes very difficult to gain admission. On the flip-side, because of there being so few aussies getting in, financial aid is entirely sufficient. </p>
<p>Supplemental recs are permissible, but rarely helpful unless they come from a very special source and shed light of some particularly important aspects of your character. All recs are important (teacher recs in particular are important, and to a lesser extent counselor rec), but do not get more recs for the sake of getting them…</p>
<p>Also of note, “MVP of the worst soccer team in the school and a house cooking award” while unconventional, are not necessarily things you want to be talking about (particularly the ‘worst soccer team’ part) as they make come across as trivial and token.</p>
<p>In any case, what sort of SAT scores do you have, and what other colleges will you be applying to?</p>