<p>Get off CC. Keep your grades up, cultivate relationships with teachers with whom you click (for example, I help my French teacher tutor kids every other Monday and have asked her to mentor my graduation project), explore a variety of ECs and then really invest yourself in those that interest you (2, 3 max), do not sacrifice a social life for any of these things (keeping in mind that you may very well have to sacrifice a party or two), and do not freak out about (P)SATs now. Your scores will naturally go up over the course of two years. </p>
<p>In two years, get back on here and then we can more accurately assess your chances. Well, as well as any random anonymous Internet figure can. Without concrete stats, we have nothing to gauge your chances on, and getting on here too young, being surrounded by incredibly motivated and accomplished people (some of whom may or may not be fictional) can be soul-crushing when you’re a freshman. Now go!</p>