By the way, thank you to those of you who took the time out of your day to read/respond to my post. It really means a lot. <3 I’m just really stressed because I go to a semi-competitive school and seeing my friends and their GPA’s adversely affected mine. I never really confronted my teachers about my situation and in retrospect, that was the biggest mistake I could have ever made. I didn’t even tell my friends about it until months after. I never really opened up about it until it was too late. I ended up not consistently doing my homework and missing school during my freshmen year and I never really transitioned into a normal life until the end of sophomore year since my father was the only breadwinner in the family, so we had to make drastic changes. I just don’t know how to convey this to the UC’s since their primary focus is GPA.