<p>Hi, I'm a very english-centered sophomore hoping to get into a strong liberal arts college, like Colgate, Macalester, or Colorado College. I'm also hoping to possibly get into a larger university like Emory, Rice, or Tulane. I've got a 3.9 gpa (4.7 weighted) in the top eight percent of my class of 1100 kids while taking the hardest classes available, with mathematics being my exception. I'm taking Euro AP, but I also plan on taking APUSH, the two English AP's, Bio AP, Macro/Micro AP or US/Comp. Gov AP, and Spanish AP. My extracurriculars include youth ministry, rugby, wrestling, boy scouts (I'm an Eagle), a few hundred hours of community service, congressional debate, and I plan to apply for the school newspaper and national honors society this year. I'm predicted to get a 34 on my ACT from the PLAN test, but I'm not sure about the SAT since I haven't taken the PSAT yet. I'm not on the highest mathematics track and in senior year I will be taking Trig/Pre Calc Honors. Do you think that I will not be able to receive admission or have a severely reduced chance of admission to the above colleges because of my lack of calculus?</p>
<p>Without knowing standardized tests cores, hard to predict. But for a future liberal arts major interested in LACs I do not think any of those schools would preclude you on that ground alone, especially if you do well on math part of SATs.</p>