I’m incredibly worried about college. I’m going to be a junior and so far, my cumulative GPA is 4.0 with all honors(my school doesn’t offer AP classes), I am 23% in my class, and I will study all I can for the PSAT and SAT. What do you guys think are my chances in getting into a good college?
Very good. Keep up the good work and try to worry a bit less. You can go to the 200th ranked school in the us and still be the envy of the world and do anything in life you care to.
If it helps, I am in Mock Trial, a community service group, president of the city council club, with a community service club, and golf varsity. My peers are telling me to give up and go to a local college, but I am trying my best to not let that happen. I come from a private school of 107 students and I will try to be a national Hispanic scholar. This has been boggling my mind ever since freshman year, when I had a gpa of 3.14 UW, then a GPA of 3.75 in sophomore year, and I am hoping to have a 4.0 UW gpa Junior year
Your peers don’t sound helpful.
You’re obviously working really hard. Your grades are trending steeply upward, and you’ve got a busy schedule of EC’s.
Nobody here can tell you specifically what to aim for, college wise, without a rough idea of what your standardized test scores will be and, even more importantly, your budget and financial aid eligibility. But you will have good options. Don’t let hypercompetitive peers get you down. 
I don’t understand where the major worry is coming from. Are you worried that you are going to be unable to financially provide for college or are you just fishing for compliments?
Congratulations on your hard work and success! Your are doing better now, which is important for your future, and for college admissions. Schools want students who will succeed. Diligence is very important to that. You are showing them you can do the work and can succeed. So that’s great.
The bad news, Harvard and several dozen other schools are hyper-competitive. The great news? Many, many, many schools are much more accessible in admissions and are filled with incredible students, amazing faculty, and dedicated, talented staff. They often have spectacular campuses with world-class facilities.
Excluding the most competitive state flagships/public research universities like UNC, UVA, Cal-Berkeley, and William and Mary, think about who you will find at a University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Ohio State, University of Oregon, etc. Think about the 10,00s of thousands of high school students who will graduate from these states. Many of the Top 5% or Top 10% of students academically (however defined) from these states will attend these schools. So great students. Scores if not hundreds of professors/grad students will apply for open faculty positions. So they will be very well qualified. They are all in cool college towns. They all have major research facilities. You’d be a very reasonable applicant at all of them.
Rhodes College, Denison, and Sewanee are excellent schools with beautiful campuses. Rhodes is stunning. Denison has a beautiful LAC campus near Columbus, OH, a good-sized city with lots of opportunity. Sewanee is a mountain. You’d be a reasonable applicant at all of them. Check out the links (click on This is Our Story for Sewanee).
https://www.rhodes.edu/content/about-rhodes
Also urban, and outstanding, just colder and more northern,
https://www.macalester.edu/about/#/0
There are outstanding Catholic schools that are not hyper-competitive–University of Dayton, Creighton University, Santa Clara University, and others. Santa Clara is in Silicon Valley, with picture perfect weather.
Not saying you’d be accepted to all of these, but all are reasonable. And you may very well be accepted to a school with very low acceptance rates. Obviously no one knows how your application package will look next year. The point is, wow, lots of great places out there. These and others.
And you can also google “test optional colleges.” That includes many, many schools. And they really do seem to be test optional in fact.
So you’ll have choices (I’m sure some of these sound good and some not). You’ll go to a great place. Trust more and worry less, if possible (I know easier said than done). Make it a fun exploration about finding a great place for YOU that is also affordable. Good luck!
I’m worried because I’m not sure if i am good enough to go to a good college. I know it might seem like I’m fishing for compliments, but I have been worried sick because I have always wanted to leave my hometown and do great things outside to other places. You don’t understand, my family and peers are extremely negative towards everything. I try to start a club or run for a leadership position and everybody starts to say I’m not good enough. I have never paid attention to them, but everyone in my school is just so introverted, weird, and negative.
@TTG Thank you so much! Your advice will help.