<p>You won’t stand out from the packs of geniuses applying except potentially for your soph/junior summer work. If you can distinguish yourself in some way with that, you have an ok shot–develop it and work it into your application in a way that a person would say “thats really cool, I want that to happen here.” Otherwise you’ll look a lot like the 70th percentile applicant, and on the 90th and above get in.</p>