Chances of getting into top liberal arts colleges?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello!

I’m a rising junior at one of the top private schools in my city. Like most every student around this time (and some before), I’m beginning to narrow down my list of colleges. I’m interested in applying to some of the top liberal arts colleges as I aspire to be a lawyer, but I’m concerned about my chances of acceptance. I consistently make As and Bs, although freshman year I struggled quite a bit with geometry and made a high C. Sophomore year was only one B first semester and two second semester. The issue with all this is that I’m not taking many honors courses. My school doesn’t offer Honors English, which is my strength, so for the first two years of high school the only honors course I took was Latin. Next year I’m taking all APs except for my regular math and science courses, but I’m worried that it might not be enough. I’m not exceptionally proficient in the math field, and I’m not sure if this will cripple me or not during the college admissions process.

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we can’t chance you without your test scores or your exact GPAs. Come back with those.

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Yeah we’ll need your GPA and test scores (ACT/SAT/SAT II) to chance you specifically.

Besides that, if you’re going to be applying to liberal arts colleges and your major isn’t going to be STEM, then not taking the most advanced science/math classes shouldn’t be too bad. Some schools are more strict than others on that rule, however.

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Sorry for the late reply here, I’ve been on vacation. My school is weird in that it doesn’t do GPAs, but freshman year I had a 3.7 and sophomore a 3.8. I am taking the SAT this winter.