I messed up badly sophomore year and it's playing into my junior year.

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During my freshman year, I got a 3.77 (unweighted: ) freshman year and a 3.15 (unweighted: ) sophomore year. I had problems back at home as well as trying to deal with my tinnitus. I did a great job during my first semester, but I plummeted during my second semester when the problems worsened and I caved. I didn’t have any opens and being in all honors classes while trying to deal with those problems caused me to skip classes to finish work. I messed up so badly that I went down to a 3.15 gpa… and that’s weighted.

After the year I had, I lost the confidence I had in myself as a student. When I told my guidance counselor I wanted to stay in honors for my junior year, instead of supporting me, she made me feel unsure of myself. Because of this, I made the decision to not override the recommendations most of my teachers gave me and move to regular classes. It was over the summer that I quickly realized I made a huge mistake. While other students are moving from regular to APs, I just moved from all honors since the beginning of high school to all regular classes.

My guidance counselor wasn’t much of a help at all. After getting recommendations from my teachers explaining how much they supported the decision to move up, my guidance counselor only let me move up in one of my classes.

I don’t know what to do. My screw up from sophomore year became a screw up for both sophomore and junior year. I need advice. I can’t stop worrying about how my dream colleges are now out of reach. What can I do to redeem myself? I want to be a plastic surgeon so maybe I can take courses outside of school and tell colleges that I took regular classes to focus on my future career?

Thanks so much!!

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unweighted for freshman year: 3.42
unweighted for sophomore year: 2.56

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My GC is alright, however I have been in some situations such as yours. The GC is not able to refuse your request, if your override policy works the same way as the one at my school. Talk to GC’s superiors and see if she is able to prevent you from moving up.

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If you really want to go up have your parents talk to the counselor or the principal, this worked for me.

As of right now in junior year you need to ace those classes to show that you are an advanced student.

Additionally if your junior GPA is good, it should take care of the gpa situation as a lot of colleges only look at 10th 11th and 1st semester of 12th grade

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  1. Have you addressed the "problems" at home?
  2. Have you addressed the Tinnitus?
  3. Your GC has seen many kids over their career...they are trying to set you up to do well. So do well and move up to honors senior year. Don't worry, there is a college out there for you. Excel now, excel senior year and you can excel in college too.