Chance @ Bentley ED

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Hi,
Just want to get an idea of my chances at Bentley if I were to apply early decision next year. I know there are a lot of these posts but it would be pretty nice if I could just get a general sense.

GPA: 3.5 (Low grades as a freshman, getting them up, currently have a 3.9 first semester junior year)

Have not taken the SAT or ACT yet, taking ACT February 11th though so I should be able to update this.
I can put my PSAT score which was a 1260

AP’s: US Government (5)
APUSH (haven’t taken exam yet)

Plan on taking AP Environmental, AP Stat, AP Psych, AP Econ as senior
Poss AP Lit in place of Econ, probably not though

Honors: Chinese, Spanish, English 10

EC’s: Football, 3 year varsity starter, all conference as junior, all academic sophomore and junior year, voted senior captian
Wrestling, 4 year varsity starter, all conference as sophomore, all academic as sophomore, voted senior captain (season not over at time of post)
Life Scout
Member of community service club

I don’t really know what else to put. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Please try to improve your grades in the Junior year and get a good ACT score close to 30 or above, then you will have a better chance to get admission as ED. Please remember getting merit scholarship is tough at Bentley. You need high GPA and Test scores to get merit scholarship.

Good luck

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Anyone else care to comment, please?

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Definitely work on boosting grades and getting over 1,300 SAT. I would also swap out the AP stat class and take an AP calc class like AP Calc B/C if your HS offers it. It will show your strength in math that Bentley will appreciate. Applying ED might help your chances as well.

Good luck.

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Update: Got a 31 on the ACT. Thoughts?