Are you a high school freshman? If so, is your 1480 SAT score actual, or what you are hoping to achieve?
You might want to read the “applying sideways” blog on the MIT admissions website. Its basic message, as I understand it, is to do what is right for you, and do it very well. Several people I know have used this approach with significant success. However, what I did is very different from what my wife or my children have done. We each just did what was right for us.