Hi everybody! I am concerned for my chances into getting into a good college because of problems caused by my dysfunctional family situation and severe mental illness.
I started to take high school level math and science course when I was only in middle school which might look good except I got B’s in them because I was too apathetic due to bipolar depression to give a damn about trying. What is great about that is all those B’s show up on my highschool transcript. So grades I took in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade somehow now have an affect on my high school transcripts and GPA.
My bigger problem was what happened to me my second semester of my freshman year, this year. First semester I had all A’s, even though I was taking senior math and AP Environmental Science. Second semester I had to start taking psych meds to handle my obsessive, actively suicidal thoughts. The meds plus the crap going on with my family problems caused my grades to slip from all A’s to low B’s and C’s. So second semester was a failure for me. I got a 4.0 GPA first semester and a 2.7 my 2nd semester.
How bad does this screw up my chances? My overall GPA at the moment is a 3.3 which should go up assuming nothing sends my brain into a crazy state. I have plans to take pre-calc, AP Physics 1, AP Bio, and Competitive Speech and Debate in my sophomore year. I also hope to start getting involved in extracurricular things again. I did essentially none my freshman year and have no foundation because I spent all of middle school lying on a couch or in bed wishing to not exist.
So I screwed up my grades and have a paltry selection for extracurriculars due to my failure to develop interests at a critical point in life. I feel like I have to play catch up now.
So do you guys think I screwed myself over with my grades and lack of activity?