I had severe mental health issues, my first semester in college was okay but then I went downhill and now I’m finally back on track. I finished incompletes and am gonna do repeat forgive for a couple classes and I’m gonna work my ass off. I got the highest grade in this one class out of over 80 kids, that was for my major that I loved so I do do well when i love my classes but right now it’s a lot of prerequisite classes I have to take and general education classes that are required and I was so sick. So I know I’m really good at what I like and I’ll get into that more soon and a little this semester. But I’m scared because I’ll probably need to go to grad school so I’m in my second semester of sophomore year and if I work super hard and do well and do repeat forgive for a couple classes can I bring my grades way up by the end? I probably need like a 3.5 and above. I’m so freaked out I know I couldn’t help I was ill but im scared I screwed myself. My advisor thinks I can bring it up high enough but idk I’m just freaked out please help.
Obviously GPA is just a math calculation but the quality of your life is not. I know that GPA within your major counts the most for grad school and sometimes you can address if you have extra circumstances in the application process (as well as GRE scores). Just take care of yourself, take it one day at a time and it will work out. You can’t get your GPA up in one semester but you still have 5 more to go. You can do it!