In CC. I go to a pretty competitive public high school (around 500 ranking on us news) in California. In middle school, i got 4.0 gpa and I expected myself to be the same in my freshman year. However, I haven’t lived up to the expectations due to many reasons. First, Im gonna admit the fact that I slacked off a bit too much in certain subjects. Im a very situational procrastinator and I only procrastinate on specific subjects. Second, due to the difficulty, it was pretty hard for me to adjust and I had some family issues too. I have been worried if my poor year will affect college admissions. I have high hopes to major either in biochem or biology and follow pre med pathway and eventually become a doctor. I am unsure if my bad freshman year will take a tole to the time in which i apply for colleges.
I also took geometry summer school and I got a B because it was a huge pain learning so many concepts and theorems in 5 -6 weeks.
Here are my first semester classes and grades
Geometry summer school
Biology Honors: 86.5% pretty disappointed by this grade I didn’t know how to study well and this class had pretty dense material. I used my mistakes to help me second semester.
French I 91% Really hard tests but me and the whole class somehow managed with an A
Photography : 96%
Alg 2 : 92% (I never rly studied for this class but its still an a)
Eng I honors : 86% pretty hard class but if I worked harder i think i couldve ended with a better grade
Now my second semester grades
Biology honors : 92% worked my ass off some of the material is AP level so im proud of myself.
French I 90% Im worried this might drop down to a B+ so i need to work hard on the next tests.
photography 98%
Alg 2: 95%
Eng I Honors: 80.3% Yikes, this grade is rly bad. Basically, my first semester teacher passed away (yes this is true) and I got switched to another teacher and she is extremely difficult. Its not just me having a bad grade, its all my peers too having B- averages. Only 1 person has an A in the class and everyone has Bs and Cs its rly hard. Personally, I hate english so much and I sometimes procrastinate which is another reason. Also, my schedule is messed up and when I have my JV Tennis games I have to miss class 3x a week so making up the assignments is a big pain.
In total i get average 3 hours of homework and some days it can get pretty hard to manage it so I sometimes slack off on my homework depending on how tired I am.
I just want this school year to end really badly. I feel like I need a break in which I need to just breath and not stress too much about school (even thou im taking a summer school course but its easy). Geometry over the summer in a way has took a toll on how I did over the summer because it was so much work to do (average 6 hours homework daily) and I didn’t get any time off. This caused me to assume school was this hard and I think this caused me to be unmotivated and not achieve as good grades as middle school.
As for this summer I am looking forrward to taking a break and trying to focus on my goal to get a 4.0 sophomore year which i think is doable. I know this sounds harsh considering how I slacked off this year but I have experience now and understand how to manage time and study. Here is my schedule for next year.
Chem Honors
French 2
AP Human geo
Math analysis honors/ pre calc honors
English 2 regulars
PE/Tennis JV
Now my question is, If i either get a 3.8 or a 4.0 gpa sophomore year then will it replace my bad image of my freshman year?