Chance me for top LACs -- Carleton, Vassar, Midd...

Hi, I’m a high school junior and some of the schools I am considering right now are Carleton, Vassar, and Middlebury. I would love some feedback on what my chances may look like at any of these schools :slight_smile: btw, I think I’m planning on applying RD to Carleton and Vassar and ED to Midd

Info:
White middle-class female from the midwest :
Private parochial school of about 600 students. College prep, rigorous course load, nationally recognized.
GPA: W 4.23 (My school only reports our GPAs at the end of every semester, and they don’t report UW. For last semester alone it was 4.56. My freshman and sophomore years there were only a few honors courses offered. Hopefully I can raise my cum. to ~4.3-4.4 by the end of first semester next year…)
Rank: My school doesn’t report, but definitely top 10%

ACT: 36 (36 English, 35 math, 36 science, 35 reading)
SAT: results haven’t come out yet, but I got 1500/1520 on the PSAT so I hope the results will at least somewhat reflect that :slight_smile:
APs: my school doesn’t offer any until senior year… but I will be taking AP Calc, AP World History, AP Chem, AP Lit – so basically all of the courses offered
Courseload: the most rigorous offered all 4 years (all of my classes this year are honors-level besides religion, the same will be the case next year). This may be a big disadvantage because while my school is a college-prep school, even the ‘most rigorous’ courseload doesn’t look very rigorous on paper compared to a lot of other schools.
Grades: I won’t get too detailed, but basically I’ve gotten As throughout the past three years with a few Bs here and there.
Senior year courseload: AP Calc, AP World History, AP Chem, AP Lit, H Innocence and Evil, H Humanities, H Politics

Activities:
-played piano 11 years, part of my school orchestra 9, 10, 11, 12
-recipient of a selective government scholarship (NSLI-Y) to study Korean in Korea this summer for six weeks
-class president 11, 12
-school service club 11, 12
-school quiz bowl team 10, 11, 12
-Volunteer at an art studio for artists with disabilities, I hope to have about 150 hours total logged by this time next year. also founded the service site for this place at my school if that matters.
-Chinese club president 11, 12 (didn’t exist before then)
-winner of my school’s essay contest all 3 years (if this counts for anything??)
-young democrats club 11, 12
-school literary magazine club 9

Job: no longer have one, but worked at a local pizza place for about 6 months between sophomore and junior year, during the summer I worked ~25 hours/week

Recs: Haven’t been written yet obviously, but I would expect them to be pretty strong as both of the teachers I plan to ask know me well and like me.

My passion is language and that is probably what I would want to study in some form or another. Outside of school I self-study languages and I took a year-long German class last year with my city’s German association. Not really sure where those things would fit into my application but I thought I’d throw it in because that’s the direction I want to go.

Your school will submit a school profile with your GCs recs, transcript, etc. Your GC will check a box that indicates how rigorous your courses were- all of the colleges know that there are big variations in what options students have in the way of honors, APs, etc. It definitely will NOT count against you that you don’t have a gazillion APs.