<p>All the advice you’re getting is sound, but it comes with a caveat, you won’t get into a highly ranked engineering program with that SAT score. Knowing that, you have to decide whether that matters. I’m inclined to believe that it’s FAR more about WHAT you do in school as opposed to where you go to school. If you are dead set on a selective school, USC being the most selective of the ones you named, you have to understand that it’s a game.</p>
<p>The SAT is not a measure of math knowledge practical to an engineer. Rather than studying math, you need to study how to take the test. </p>
<p>What selective schools care about is how YOUR score will effect their ranking. If your score pulls their average own and people are beating down the doors to get in, you won’t have a chance.</p>
<p>In the end, it’s actually your HS GPA and rigor of course work that are predictive of collegiate success.</p>
<p>What state do you live in?</p>