<p>4.0 UW GPA (School does not weight, all Honor's/AP courses throughout highschool)
1920 SAT (800 CR, 500 Math, 620 Writing, 10 on Essay)
27 ACT (21 Math, 34 CR, 28 English, 26 Science)</p>
<p>Subject Tests:
Chem-720
World History-800
US History-800
Lit-800
Math 2-630</p>
<p>AP's:
World History-5
US History-5
Lang-5
Lit-5
Computer Science A-2
Spanish-3
Psychology-5</p>
<p>Senior Year Courseload:
Honors Precalculus
AP Stat
AP Chem
European Literature
Film Analysis
AP Human Geography
Contemporary Fiction</p>
<p>EC'S:
300-350 Volunteer Hour's at Hospital
Geography Bee State champion
Knowledge Master State champion
Varsity Swimming-3 Years
President of Explore club (Teaching world Culture)</p>
<p>Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income: 300k (Estimated)
Residency: California</p>
<p>What are my chances are top engineering schools like MIT/Caltech/UC Berkeley/Stanford?
It's my dream to be an engineer like my father, I wrote my essays about this as well.</p>
<p>you’re not an engineer. look at yourself. your something else. your perfection lies in english. follow what you’re good at. you’re math scores will not let you be an engineer. but if you go into a more suitable major you can achieve great things. 800 CR, 800 Lit, 34 English ACT. 500 Math, 630 Math 2, 21 Math ACT. Go into english or history or something like that. you can disagree with me if you want.</p>
<p>Why don’t you give the SAT again and try to improve your math score? Maybe your counselor can help force the SAT score to the colleges in january?</p>
<p>You can apply to these schools but I think you have a very low chance. Your test scores aren’t up to par and your ECs are pretty average. Engineering is competitive, a lot of people want to be engineers. You should really look up some more realistic schools. I don’t want to be harsh, you look like a great student, but your math scores will bring you down.</p>
<p>your english scores are impressive. try to apply as an english major first and see where it takes you.
if you really want to pursue engineering your chances would probably be low, but not impossible for those schools. As you said, they take a holistic approach to admissions.
However, it would seem quite strange that your application shows that math is your weakest subject, yet you apply as an engineering major.
good luck though</p>
<p>i’m sorry, but engineering requires a lot of math skills and knowledge. caltech, mit, and stanford and really competitive schools. my friend got into caltech last year for engineering, and she has won national math competitions. but, try uc berkeley. it may help a little that both your parents both went there … good luck! :)</p>
<p>UC’s don’t care about legacies. it’s just not their philosophy.
The kids at our high school who get into Cal are geniuses who were in the top 2% of the class. Your numbers should be strong for Santa Barbara, Davis or SLO. Or look out of state. If you have a love of engineering, give it a shot. Maybe your family exposure to it will override the math tests.</p>
<p>It seems like your SAT/ACT scores would definitely lead to a rejection. Your subject test scores are good (not math II, it falls in the 47th percentile, chem is all-right, falls in 60ish percentile), but not engineering based. Moreover, it seems like your AP Scores would dissuade adcoms from allowing you to become an engineer (2 in Comp Sci.). Are you perhaps trying to be an engineer because your father is one? If so, I suggest you try to find your own path. History and Lit seem strong, do you enjoy those? Try fields in those? Unfortunately, however, as it stands, you would be straight rejected (from engineering schools) and being a white female doesn’t help. It also seems like a prospective engineer applying to the best engineering schools in the country should not be in pre-calc as a senior. I think you can get into other, non engineering based schools (like Berkeley), but MIT, Caltech, and Stanford are iffy (you may not get into Berkeley if you apply to engineering). The only way you could get into Stanford or MIT is if you got recruited for swimming and apply as an English Major. If you want more quant data, check out the results threads for MIT or Caltech, for they should give you a baseline. I would caution you, however, to check the racial category of each applicant due to affirmative action.</p>
<p>Here’s MIT’s EA results thread from last year.</p>
<p>First of all, you are very very very impressive with your GPA and subject tests in the history/literature exams. Literature is very hard to get a perfect score in based on statistics.</p>
<p>Your 630 in Math 2 places you in the 31st percentile–I’m sorry, but for an engineering school (especially schools like MIT, Stanford), that’s really not good enough, in my opinion. 15 percent of all Math 2 test-takers get an 800, and I’d say they’d be among the ones applying to MIT/Stanford. </p>
<p>You really need to be obviously strong in math to be accepted for an engineering school, and your strengths very clearly lie in English and the humanities–your humanities scores are awesome.</p>
<p>I’d say don’t apply to elite schools as a declared engineering major, since you probably won’t get in; maybe be undeclared? You can think about it more when in college.</p>