Hi everyone,
Posts like these probably get very tedious and annoying, but this is probably the best way to get an accurate read on my Kenyon chances. I visited campus and fell in love, but I don’t want to get my hopes up until I think I’m in a good place to get into Kenyon.
My unweighted GPA right now (cumulative as of fall semester of junior year) is a 3.56, but the reason for that is because of a low GPA sophomore year, but I have an upward trend in increasingly hard classes. I am in a regionally/nationally recognized very selective Magnet program at my school, and take 9 honors / AP classes every year (10 total APs by the end of senior year, not counting Magnet classes with AP Material). Also, when I calculate my GPA on Kenyon’s scale, I have a 3.64, and with all A’s this semester it will be a 3.71. I have gotten at least 3’s on all AP tests
I also have a 32 on my ACT, with the subscores being a 34 in English, 33 in Math, 32 in Reading, and a 29 in Science, but I’m planning on taking it again to bump up my reading and science scores, and to take the writing portion.
I am also very confident in my ability to write a good essay, so I don’t think that is a weakness. Also I really really loved Kenyon, so expressing my love of the school in an essay wouldn’t be hard.
I’m involved in a lot of extracurriculars and have leadership positions in a few, I am on my school’s speech and debate and swim team, and I’m competing a national Judicial competition this summer.
That was rambly and long, but I hope that gave a full view of what the Kenyon admissions office would see. If you have any advice or a way to gauge my status at Kenyon I’d really really appreciate it! 
Just curious, how many schools did you fall in love with, other than Kenyon and Denison?
OP, I’ll re-post here what I just posted on another thread:
“If a prospective applicant to Kenyon looks on one of the widely used college data websites today they see that 38% of 4,051 applicants were admitted. The 2015 edition of Fiske says that 36% of 3,947 applicants were admitted. Yet if one looks at the recent news release by the Acting Kenyon Dean of Admissions, for the Class of 2019 only 23.8% of 7,077 applicants were admitted. This is a dramatic change.”
You’ve got great scores and grades, but the reality is that Kenyon has gotten much more difficult to get into the past couple of years, and many applicants with your stats have been waitlisted (see the Kenyon RD thread). Be sure to go to one of Kenyon’s day-long open houses this spring or summer. You get a lot of useful information there that you don’t pick up in the written materials, and there you can introduce yourself to the Dean of Admissions.
For two high quality schools that are similar to Kenyon but somewhat less difficult to get into, consider looking at Sewanee and Rhodes.
visited both this weekend, loved them both equally. They’re my top two by a wide margin, I’d be ecstatic to be accepted to either. The copy-paste probably seemed insensitive, that just came from being lazy and not wanting to rephrase everything
Google the Common Data Set, section C for any school you are interested in. The stats there will enable you to chance yourself.
And while you are falling in love, don’t forget to check out the other midwestern LACs that are comparable to Kenyon: There are many like Hendrix, Macalester, Grinnell, and Oberlin. Again, the Common Data Set is your friend for chancing.