please rate my chances? I really want to go

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<p>I've been looking into colleges a lot lately, even though I'm a junior in high school, because I'm almost obsessed with knowing everything I can before I have to start applying. Lafayette looks almost perfect to me, and when spring time rolls around I plan on taking a tour, and maybe staying over for a night. I'm not sure how good my stats are compared to the average students, and I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if they think I have a good chance or not.
SAT I: 1980, taking them again in March, hoping to do better
CR 680, Math 690, Writing 610 (essay 8)
I haven't taken SAT IIs yet, but I plan on taking Math 1 and maybe 2, Spanish (what I want to minor in), and probably physics or chemistry
my class rank was 18/181, but this was at the end of my sophomore year when my GPA was a 3.22 unweighted. My GPA now is a 3.45, unweighted, as of the end of the first semester of this year, and I'm taking 7 IB classes this year
IB bio HL
IB spanish IV
IB chemistry
IB ToK
IB math SL year 1
IB history of the americas HL
IB english 11 HL</p>

<p>next year i'll be taking
IB Bio HL year 2
IB spanish V
IB physics
IB ToK
IB math SL year 2
IB history of the americas HL year 2
IB english 12 HL year 2 </p>

<p>I don't have great ECs, but I tutor spanish after school for between 1 and 5 younger students, depending on how many show up on a given day, I'm a very active member in my schools Invisible children club, I've probably given 75 hours to that club in the past two years, and I'm the vice president. I play soccer, but not varsity. I play piano, and I have been for 6 years now I've participated in many young musicians recitals at the Baby Grand Opera House.
I'm a white male who doesn't really have anything outstanding going for him,
it would be fantastic if anyone could tell me what they think of my chances, and what they think I should do to enhance my chances because I really really like Lafayette so far</p>

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<p>I don’t want to ‘chance’ you, but see this link to see for yourself how you stack up against recent classes: <a href=“http://www.lafayette.edu/admissions/2013profile.pdf[/url]”>http://www.lafayette.edu/admissions/2013profile.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Hi everyone!</p>

<p>I’m currently a senior at Lafayette. Here are some stats for you all to look over from the Admissions Office.</p>

<p><strong>Students at Lafayette are typically around an A- with strong classes and our mid-50% for testing is 1250-1420, but the Admissions Office does a really good job looking at the entire application. I am friends with one of the Admissions directors and he looks at everything in the file from recommendations to the supplement.</strong></p>

<p>And letters are usually sent out for Regular Decision at the end of March.</p>

<p>Best of luck!! Any more questions…let me know! :-)</p>

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<p>@ njcanderson:</p>

<p>Don’t ask someone on an online forum to chance you. Sure we all are attending / have attended Lafayette but everyone got in because of different reasons. You’re still a junior in HS. The important thing is to just keep up with what you’re doing already and to do it to the best of your ability. Asking someone to chance you could give you false hope or make you manically depressed.
Someone posted a link to the class of 2013 profile. The only thing I can tell you is to try and stay in that range academically, which you seem to be doing. You don’t need to freak out so much.</p>