Chance me Vassar ED

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I’m a junior in high school, and I just toured Vassar and completely fell in love with it and I am definitely going to apply there Early Decision! The only other school I’d plan on applying if I got differed/rejected is Hobart and William Smith as of right now.
Stats:

Prospective Major: International Studies (might also do a minor/correlate of History and/or Russian Studies)
Gender: Female
GPA (my school doesn’t do weighted or rank): 96/100 -i’m definitely in the first quarter
ACT: 33
SAT: 1430
AP Classes: world history(3) (Won’t send in this score), US history, psychology, lang and comp (taking these 3 right now and planning on getting 4s and a 5). Next year I will be taking stat, lit, chem, micro, macro, and french

EC’s:
National Honor Society: going to be an officer next year
Mock Trial: Been on the team since freshman year, and am president this year and will be president next year
Model UN: have been doing this since soph. year; president, won an award for best position paper, major leader in committee
Model UN Jr: teach middle schoolers how to debate and run Mock Model UN conferences; basically spearheaded this with some of my friends
Junior Class officers: Secretary
French: I tutor middle schoolers every week
Started my schools YA book club
Work at my local public library
Captain of Varsity Track and Cross Country: was a cross country colonial council all star soph. year

Extra:
Was nominated and chosen to go to ALA Girl’s State this summer, a week long program where you learn how to govern your own state and I hope to be elected a position
I have a book blog where I review books I love (it’s not super popular though, just something I love to do)

Awards:
Highest average for french since fresh. year
Highest average for AP world history

Thank you so much for reading this! I really want to get into Vassar, but I would also be open to suggestions for other schools if I don’t get in! Also I would like to know whether or not I should apply ED I or ED II? Thanks!

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Vassar’s ED acceptance rate is usually around 40%, so a little less than double its overall acceptance rate. I would say that you look like a very strong candidate for either ED or RD, but your chances are probably quite strong during the ED round. I’d be shocked if you didn’t get in during ED. True, Vassar is a fine school, and its applicants are some of the strongest in the country, but your current grades, scores, and ECs make you a solid candidate regardless. ED should put you over the top. Just don’t let that go to your head. You’ll need to write strong essays and obtain strong recommendation letters.

BTW, it’s nice to see someone who has found two schools, both LACs, and has fallen in love with them instead of being obsessed with Ivies and near-Ivies, whose focus is not at all on undergraduates. At either Vassar or William and Hobart (where you are a shoo-in, so this should be your safety) you’ll receive a terrific education.

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Keep in mind that Vassar gets many more female than male applicants, resulting in a much lower admission rate for females. It varies only about five percent either way from the most recent stats on College Data, which shows 55% of males were admitted, versus 15% of females. I’ve seen no data for gender and ED, but my guess is that it’s in the same ballpark.

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The 2017-18 Common Data Set for Vassar indicates a 35% admission rate for male vs 19% for female applicants with females representing 70% of the total applicant pool. ED admit rate was 41% with an overall admit rate of 23.7%.