Will aeroengineering help daughter?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>My junior D wants to study aeronautical or astronautical engineering and has narrowed her focus to: RPI (she's being recruited to play soccer) plus USNA, Cornell, Syracuse, Cal Poly SLO. I was wondering if Princeton was too much of a reach. Basically, does being a women in that major help? </p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 UW
Rank: ~4 out of 120 (>95% go on to 4 yr college)
AP: Jr. yr = Physics, Calc, Hist, Engl senior yr = Calc, Chem
SAT: 800M 710V 660W
EC: All-conf soccer, All-conf softball, V basketball, International Thespian Soc, Nat Honor Soc, math comp team, jazz and concert band, some others in school, volunteer at local food bank, summer work (not engr related), may intern this sum at engr firm.</p>

<p>It all sounds quite impressive to me but then again I'm bias :-)</p>

<p>Opinions please.</p>

<p>osdad</p>

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<p>Academically I would say that she is very qualified and yes being a girl will help. The only problem is that her ECs do not look very engineering related. She 100% should do an internship at an engineering firm this summer or get involved in engineering like research. </p>

<p>And be sure to try the ACT too.</p>

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<p>and dont forget the SAT II’s</p>

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<p>And instead of interning only during the summer she if she can continue it throughout the year.</p>

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<p>As visionquest mentioned–be sure she takes 3 SATII Subject Tests, and does extremely well in the MathII, and Physics, as well a language or English one.</p>