<p>Any insight on what my chances of getting into middlebury, hamilton, and williams would be like? </p>
<p>Current second semester junior at a Catholic prep all-boys school in Cleveland:</p>
<p>GPA is uweighted 3.75 out of 4.0
I have taken nearly all honors and ap classes. (4 on AP US history exam)
Taking euro this year. Taking lit, calc ab, and gov next year. </p>
<p>SAT first time: CR 760, M 740, W 670 (yikes...) so 1500/1600 or 2170/2400
Taking SAT again in May, trying to get writing above or at 700.
ACT first time: 31
Taking ACT again in June, going for 33.
SAT II's: Biology 630, Math I 680, US History 700</p>
<p>EC's:
Varsity soccer (state and national champions junior year)
Student Council (2 year member, secretary senior year)
Model UN (3 years, verbal commendation award at Cornell Conference 2011)
Men of Regis (3 years, basically eating/talking with people at a homeless center for lunch once a week)
Friends with L'Arche (2 years, visiting with mentally handicapped adults at a home)
Pallbearer ministry (2 years, officer senior year, serve as pallbearers as funerals for impoverished deceased)
Cleveland Clinic Youth Ambassador Program (100 hours of volunteer work at hospital)
Yearbook staff writer (3 years)
Lector at my local parish Church and Eucharistic minister
Spiritual retreat leader for my school
National Honor Society</p>
<p>Thats about it...I am white and from a well-off family (full-pay wherever I go)...I was born in England and also lived in Brazil before USA...have dual British/American citizenship.</p>
<p>Thanks for any help you can provide!</p>
<p>You need to pull all your scores into the mid 700s for a legit shot at Williams or Middlebury, and then it’s still a crapshoot. These boards are littered with 2370 rejections from those two schools. Your look like a good candidate for Hamilton, which is a very fine school.</p>
<p>I disagree. For LACs especially, none of your scores will be make or break. Not in those ranges at least. Definitely take it again: you’re in a fortunate position where improving writing will help your superscore a lot. But to say that your current scores are insufficient for those schools is wrong.</p>
<p>If anything, the SAT IIs could use some improvement. Mainly I’d say try to get another one 700+. Maybe try retaking Math I and taking Math II. Some people have an easier time scoring higher on Math II.</p>
<p>I’d say you have a decent shot at Williams and Middlebury, and of course Hamilton. Your transcript is at least median, your ECs are fairly good, and your scores are good but a little inconsistent. Just write some good essays.</p>
<p>^ I agree with notanengineer about your scores. If there is one make or break part of your application, I suspect it will be your essays, not your scores. Provided, that is, there is nothing negative in your LORs. However, your outcomes at places like Williams and Middlebury may depend in part on forces beyond your control, such as the number of other applicants from Catholic prep schools in Cleveland.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, there are easily about 20 other LACs that are similar to Williams and Middlebury, but somewhat less selective. LACs ranked 20-something or 30-something still attract high-achieving students, in some cases because they simply don’t want to travel 500 miles or more to college. Don’t make the mistake of piling up applications to reach schools but neglecting matches and safeties. We’ve seen a couple of very bad outcomes from that strategy on CC this year.</p>
<p>I disagree about scores. Check out Midd’s mid range score for the SAT. You would be in the top 30% of admitted students, I should think. CC tends to over emphasize the importance of scores and how high one’s scores must be. I personally know three kids from my tiny school attending Midd next year and their scores are all lower than yours.</p>