I’m a sophomore right now, and it’s nearly the end of the first semester, but I’m already freaking out about college. Freshman year I struggled with severe depression and couldn’t even get out of bed most days, causing me to get awful grades in a couple of classes and have a GPA of 2.6 or something. I failed one class, and I’m retaking it this year. Once I got medicated and got back on my feet, I started this year off great and currently have a 4.3 GPA with all A’s. I’m on student council, on my school’s exclusive progress planning team that coordinates with the school board to create a better environment, editor of the school news paper, I’m on the track team, the soccer team, the softball team, three other clubs, I volunteer regularly for my local soup kitchen, and I volunteer three times a week at a local hospital, and have regular volunteer hours with the humane society. Next year I’m signed up for 4 AP classes and an SAT prep course.
I go to one of those miniature college high schools where it’s still considered public but we have to apply and choose majors. My major is literature/english, and I’m a really, really good writer. I can knock an essay given to me out of the park. I want to major in English at Columbia. I guess my biggest concern is if I could still have a chance or if I’m completely screwed after messing up my freshman year. I really, really, really want to go to Columbia.
(oh yeah other stats)
Female, Half Black/Half Native American *with a tribal code number, father is a marine, nobody in my family ever went to college, extremely low income, physical handicap, and would be applying ED.
What do you think?