<p>I am a junior currently and nervous about the realism of a Carleton admission.
-My GPA is a 3.78, and will probably drop slightly.</p>
<p>-I scored a 31 on the ACT with an 11 on the writing. </p>
<p>-I have taken every AP class offered to me so far (4) and scored well.</p>
<p>-Senior year will either be full time PSEO or nearly all AP.</p>
<p>-Speech team since 8th grade. Sections every year, state as an alternate once, barley missed all other years. (Category if you know speech stuff is Extemporaneous Speaking)</p>
<p>-Semi-Major role in our schools last musical</p>
<p>-Techie for that musical and the one before. </p>
<p>-Knowledge Bowl for 2 years. Most likely a captain next year.</p>
<p>-I have little to no community service due to being an Atheist in a small town with thirteen churches in other words all community service here was tied in to religion which I could not bring myself to do. </p>
<p>-I am an exceptional writer and public speaker.</p>
<p>I think I covered everything need more just ask, so is Carleton a reasonable expectation?</p>
<p>Born, raised(still being raised?) and lived in Minnesota. Male. White.
Small generally not competitive, but my grade has proven to be an exceptional grade leaving me with a class rank of 22 out of 150 something. 14%.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s reasonable, but I wouldn’t call it an “expectation”. GPA/class rank are a little iffy, but it depends on what Carleton thinks of your school–how have past applicants with similar grades fared? </p>
<p>What are your plans for the summer? You don’t have to spend a lot of money or get a fancy internship to do something interesting. If you don’t have plans, you could use the time to start a cool project in an area that interests you.</p>
<p>And whatever you do, don’t use that excuse for not having community service in any of your essays or your interview.</p>
<p>Yeah thanks. I wrote that excuse late at night. xD
I really should have waited to type this up when I was awake, but it was too late to edit at that point.</p>