I am a Minnesota resident and a high school senior with an unweighted GPA of 3.32 and an ACT score of 29. I want to get into the college of liberal arts. I have taken 5 AP courses. I have lots of volunteering hours, I play basketball, have a part time job, and also am apart of a school club.
Please let me know your thoughts.
The best way to find out is to apply 
What’s your class rank? Your ACT is a little above average for CLA, so I think you have a good shot.
https://admissions.tc.umn.edu/freshman/faq.html ← scroll down to find a table with average class rank and test scores for admitted freshmen last year, by college.
Good luck!
I’m not really sure what my class rank is. How do i figure that out?
It might be that your high school doesn’t report class rank, which is fine, the U will just look at your GPA. If you do have a class rank reported, though, we were told by an admissions counselor that they will use that to put your GPA in context.
It may be on your transcript; it would probably say something like “55 out of 320” or “11 out of 402” where the first number is how your GPA falls relative to your peers and the second is the number of seniors at your high school.
So if you’re, say, #30 out of 350 students (29 people have a higher GPA), 30/350 = 8.5% so you’re in the top 9% and your “percentile rank” to compare to the U’s chart would be 91% (meaning your GPA would be higher than 91% of students at your school.
Or your school might report it in groups, like “top 10%” or “top 20%” or whatever.
I agree with the statement above. The only true way of knowing whether or not you’ll get in is by applying and finding out! That being said, from what I learned from my application process was that the U liked to see higher GPAs than ACT scores. Now that’s not always true but it did help some of my friends who were on the fence for some colleges via their ACTs but had decent GPAs and took relatively hard classes. Yours may be a little on the low side but that doesn’t really mean anything. You have certainly taken harder courses which they will commend you for. They like that. It’s also good that you’re involved.
On your application make sure to answer all the written questions. They’re optional but it gives the U a better look at who you are as a person and not just some set of numbers. I would highly recommend you focus on the “why your major” prompt and how you would include diversity to the U prompt. I felt as they were prompts that helped me get into the college of my choice.
The U has been a great school so far this year and I am glad to call it home for the next 4…Wherever you end up you’ll do great things. Best of Luck!