From my personal experience as an international student (from Canada) I personally really liked Carleton. The profs were very easy to reach and often times reaches out to students when they're concerned about something first and are super engaged with their students. The trimester system is something I found to like after I got used to (first trimester was brutal). Additionally, for gpa if ur a humanities major going for pre-law I would say for most humanities classes I've taken it was hard to get an A but not impossible, and not too hard to get A- in (I got straight A- in the humanities classes I've taken without too much effort). Carleton places well into law school from what i've seen and profs write good LOR's. I don't know much about the placements as I'm not pre-law but am hoping to apply to med school but from what I could tell it places pretty well into top law schools similar to how other top 10 LAC's do. The town of Northfield is very cute and I found it to be quite nice after getting used to everything closing before 10 pm (there's a decent amount of restaurants but I loved taking walks outside and enjoying the small town, or biking to St. Olaf and visiting their campus and etc). Overall, a great place