<p>I understand. </p>
<p>just that our school is really good at preparing students to go to LACs, but NEVER got anyone into a top-notch engineering school (MIT, Stanford, Caltech, UC Berkeley).
I hope to show how dedicated I am by doing summer research, which no one has ever done before.</p>
<p>I know doing research is nothing special since a lot of people do it, but it certainly is hard for someone coming from my background (international student going to a boarding school)
Besides,I was the first ever boarder of my school (we have both boarders and day students) to ever participate in a local science fair (I went to regionals, but didn’t go to ISEF). I know by itself it’s not something extraordinary, but for my school it is (considering my school was established in 1893). Will MIT know it? I’m sure they wont, but how should I let them know it without bragging putting too much emphasis on it?</p>