Carleton for my outdoorsy S???

SAY
Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:59:25 +0000

Predicting admissions is always a tricky business and it’s so easy that I would always recommend applying if there is interest. However the schools you mention Carleton, Bowdoin, Swarthmore, and Pomona are all extremely competitive top ten liberal arts schools and without some sort of hook, admission with a 3.2 uw is very unlikely. Among those four Carleton is statistically the easiest, but self selection is a big factor at Carleton. A very high SAT will help but realistically admission is far more likely at somewhere slightly less competitive like Grinnell, Colby, or Macalester. By all means apply but if you go look at the admissions data at these schools very, very few students without big hooks get admitted to these schools with a 3.2 uw. I know numerous students with top GPA’s(3.75 uw) and SAT’s(2100+) who ended up at places like Whitman, Reed, Wash & Lee, and Colby.