These posts appear every year, COVID or not. You made the same mistakes that tens of thousands of others make. You assumed that you had a good chance because you’re a good student with good stats. You applied to a whole lot of reaches and figured one might work out. It’s not a game of chance though. It’s holistic admission and a whole lot of people who didn’t have a bad freshman year would have also been denied at all those colleges.
Read this for some perspective: The original “Average” Excellent student graduates today