<p>If you get your testing up I would say you have a great shot for USC and UCLA (if you are in state). Cal Tech is not a safety!!! It has an 11% acceptance rate. Do not rely on that for your safety. I think you will get into UCI or UCSD though. </p>
<p>Brown, Columbia, and Harvard are all nearly impossible to get into. I encourage you to apply (maybe not to all 3 if money is tight), but as I’m sure you know they are super tough. Applying ED may help but then again, it may be better to apply ED to somewhere more probable. Applying ED to a school where ED makes a big difference (I can think of Duke and WashU off the top of my head) may be more worthwhile. You must get 2100+ to be considered for any of these schools, I think. </p>
<p>Other schools to apply to:
UC Berkeley
Vanderbilt
UMich
UNC Chapel Hill
WashU
NYU
Boston College
Tufts
Stanford (Major reach, but you’re a girl interested in engineering and I’m sure they’d like that!)</p>