<p>I'm a junior in high school right now and my sister is going to be a freshman next year while I will be a senior. I have ADD and have struggled with ADD and depression my entire childhood, so for a very long time I struggled to do well in school as well as get motivated to get up in the morning. I was supposed to go into at least Geometry Honors as a freshman because I was the best in my 8th grade math class, but my ADD got the best of me and I totally forgot about the math placement test (My ADD causes me to consistently forget important events) and so they stuck me in Algebra 1. I was also supposed to take this Study Hall thing for two years so I'm behind on my foreign language requirement. I try so hard to do well in school that I have no social life because I spend all my time working. I literally have not gone on the Internet to do something non-school related in weeks. I spend all my time working and get good grades, but my sister gets just as good grades and doesn't even try. Plus she's the most popular girl in her class and has a bunch of friends, and she's very well rounded and athletic. I'm a bit quirky and consider myself to be unique; I've had people write stories based on my personality and my quirkiness. I am completely my own individual, and I try so hard and care about getting into Stanford so much, but my sister hardly cares about school at all and is in basically all honors classes next year while I was in none my freshman year. I feel like I've failed at life and it hurts a lot. I'm going to take 6 or 7 APs throughout my time in high school, and I study a total of 22 hours for my AP World History quizzes and still don't do well on them. If I get into Stanford then none of this will matter to me, but so far it looks like my sister is on better footing than I was and I'm so upset. The only thing I can rely on now is my writing ability to write good Stanford essays, I guess.</p>
<p>Anyway, I guess I just wanted to read someone's opinion on this.</p>