Do I stand a chance of getting into MIT or Stanford or any top college

Sep 4 (edited) in College Apps

Hi Everyone, I am Aditya Sinha, an 11th grader (Junior) from India. I want to major in aerospace engineering with a minor in either CS or electronics. Here are all my achievements and ECs that I have been working on over the last few years. Can you go through them and let me know if they are good enough? I would love to get feedback and new ideas on what I can work on or participate in, that can boost my application/profile.

Extracurriculars

1) Cosmox Blogs: An organization that I started in 2022 (CEO & Founder). A non-profit organization that works on delivering informational articles and posts based on cosmology, natural sciences, and aerospace to aid our and similar people's curiosity.

-> 30k lifetime views on the blog's website

-> 150k views on Instagram account

working on a space exploration game will be releasing the first version by the end of September

2) Action For World: The first organization that I joined. Joined as a content creator, later on got promoted again and again and now I am the CEO of Action. Action For World is a youth-led nonprofit organization focused on spreading awareness about climate change and educating people about environmental science. We run Action Blogs, maintain an active Instagram account, and offer a four to five-month fellowship program that teaches participants about intersectional environmentalism and leadership.

-> Have taught over 200 people through the fellowship

-> 25k+ views on the website

-> Worked on a carbon emission management system and reduced over 40 metric tonnes of carbon emissions from 5 factories (received an award from the Aviation Department of India)

3) Tech Optimum (CTO): Built Tech Optimum's 2022 Hackathon website, hosted Tech Optimum's first hackathon, judged 50+ projects. Got $42,000 in sponsorship funding for the hackathon.

4) Tech Nuttiez (Creative Team Lead - Magazine): Designed the magazine published in February 2022, Designed the magazine published in March 2022. The Tech Nuttiez app got over 1 lakh downloads so I assume the magazines that I worked on had at least 50k views

There are many more organizations that I have worked for, you can check on my LinkedIn account - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditya-sinha-030508

Award & Achievements

1) IAAC 2024 Gold Honor -> Global Rank (1 - 17) (International Astronomy & Astrophysics Competition)

2) Climate Science Olympiad Semi-Finalist 2024

3) Have won 4 International Hackathons (organized by Georgetown University, UMass Amherst, MLH, Xd Hacks Vancouver)

3) International Space Olympiad Finalist 2023

4) Best Delegate @DAV MUN 2024

5) 27 medals in sports like skating(reached state level), cricket, and basketball

6) Won Zonals in U19 Baksetball

7) Qubit by Qubit Quantum Computing Course (organized by MIT, Oxford & Google Quantum AI) - Passed the whole live course with the highest grade. (got a 100% scholarship for the course)

8) Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python - Passed with 96% and got full scholarship for the course

Academics

-> 85% in 9th Grade (ICSE Board)

-> 96% in 10th Grade (ICSE Board) (Probably in the top 20 students of my school)

will be taking SAT this fall, and IELTS or TOEFL next year. If you guys know any good resources that I can use for SAT Prep, please drop them down in the comments.

I have worked on many good projects as well, some of them are Smart Plant Health Care System, Dyslexia Reader, Coolinator 3000 & etc. All of these are there on my LinkedIn account, so you can know more about them from there.

I hope all of this info above gives you a good background of my profile. I would love to get your feedback and I am open to starting something new or participating in something new. If there are any competitions, programs, or courses that I should enroll in, please let me know. Also just be brutally honest with me :)

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