Do I have a chance?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi! I'm currently a sophomore, but I'm wondering if I stand a chance at getting into a good engineering school when I graduate. Thanks for your help, this is where I stand right now.</p>

<p>Stats:
female/white/NJ/large private school
Planned Major: chemical engineering
GPA: 4.0 uw 4.5 w
PSAT's: 205
AP's: will have 11 whem I graduate
Courseload: hardest possible, all honors/aps
Junior Year Schedule (predicted)
Religion (no honors offered)
English III Hns
Pre Calc Hns/AP Calc AB (accelerated course)
Spanish III Hns
AP USH
AP Chem
Physics Honors</p>

<p>Awards:
National English Merit Award
School Departmental Awards in science, history, and english
National Honor Society
International Language Honor Society
Various Dance Awards</p>

<p>EC's:
Dance since age 4 (tap/jazz/ballet)
Competitive dance company (tap/jazz) top ranked (about 25 hours/week)
Habitat for Humanity
Healing the Children (area parties co-organizer)
Volunteer at the NJ Developmental Center (since 8th grade)
Sunday School Teacher (10)
Vacation Bible School Teacher (since 6th grade)
Writers Club (9)
Diplomats/ambassadors club (9-10)
Literary Magazine (10)
Debate Team (10)
Quiz Bowl Team (10)
Science Club v-p (10)</p>

<p>Work Experience:
file clerk at real-estate office (9)
graphic designer (9-10)
web designer (10)</p>

<p>Other:
I taught myself web design and computer programming. I'm also lacking in any research besides some psycology stuff I did for a school project. I'm planing to apply to RSI next year, although I'm thinking that it would be a bit of a stretch for them to accept me. Anyway, these are the schools I'm looking into:</p>

<p>MIT (EA?)
Caltech
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
WPI
Rutgers Engineering (instate)
Florida Institute of Technology</p>

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<p>My stats were similar, except my SAT score was lower and I got into a decent engineering school....your good up to carnegie mellon</p>

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<p>Don't forget that those are only her sophmore PSAT scores. Make sure you study a lot up until your SAT's. Try and get up to that 2200-ish point.
I raised my SAT's 210 points from my JUNIOR PSAT. I don't really remember sophmore, but i'm thinking my SAT must have improved roughly 400 points from my sophmore PSAT. I picked the one section i knew was holding me down(CR) and basically did some form of studying every night. It works.
Get your SAT's up and you have a reasonable shot and all of the schools on your list.</p>

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<p>Thanks! I know what I really have to study the math section a bit more...I messed up a couple of the harder algebra questions this time around...but I have that now, so I think if I keep studying a little bit at a time that would help a bit?</p>