Sorry this is going to be long, i would highly appreciate your help
Hi, so i was hoping to get advice from people here because i heard you guys are experienced in this region. I’m from India, i moved to the US in 8th grade, to keep in point at that time i knew nothing about the schooling system here. I had all A’s that year
Then came freshman year of high school, again because of the poor guidance i got i didn’t know how essential it was to take those honor classes or even how helpful they might turn out. Not to only blame my counselor as i was part at fault too for not researching it all up. Even that year i got all A’s in my classes although keep in my they were all standard and it was all very easy for me at that point. However that year i reaised the value of honor and AP classes and made a note of it to take them next year
Then the transition to sophomore year, the worst academic year for me so far. i took all honor classes and two AP’s, this is the year everything went downhill. The first quarter grades were great except for chemistry, I really struggled in that class but i never switched to standard chem, kept thinking that if i just tried harder my grade would pull up, i’d just like to point out that when i say struggles i mean in 60s. I also had a D/C in my hon spanish class and i pass failed my AP Psychology class, however psychology were different than the other two because i actually liked the subject i just didn’t take it as seriously as i should have but i passed the class and it didn’t affect my gpa.
Junior year, it started off great however i knew i could do better i got A’s and B’s in all my classes in the first quarter except in my AP Human GEO class(65), it’s the same thing with AP psychology happening all over again, i just can’t find the motivation to do it, it’s nit even that the class is hard there’s just work. Now i have 3 weeks till quarter 2, i have an F in AP Engineering but i can get that up because my teacher doesn’t care how late we turn in assignment as long as we do, however i’m ashamed of myself that i let it get to that point because i loved the class and this is just the affect of my laziness. i have a 63 in human geo but we still have 2 weeks and a bunch more assignments i can turn in to make it at least a ‘b’ i think. i have a 75 in hon physics and i think i did bad on a recent test, i don’t know what is happening i’ve always enjoyed physics and got a good grade, i believe i just need to get it together but i don’t really know at this point. I forgot about my hon math class i had a 73 in it q1 and this quarter it looks like it’s going to be the same unless she gives us a test or something in these two weeks.
Also something else that’s worrying me is the S.A.T, so our school took the pSAT too and i got a 490 in math and 480 in reading which i realise is a pretty bad score but at that point i hadn’t gotten into the deeper parts of my SAT review books so i didn’t worry about it THAT much but recently i took the test again and my score only move up like 25 points per section. I’ve been thinking about colleges at this point and it’s just really scaring me because i don’t think im going to get in to the ones i want, i was thinking about UNC and it’s acceptance rate is 28% but their avg SAt score is 1200+ and their average GPA is 3.6 or 3.8+
Some things that might be notable is that i can play tennis and i played for the school team this year and that i did volunteering for 65 hours
I’d just like to ask though, what should be my next step, what are my chances, is it all over?? is there ANY way i can rectify this.
Thank you for your help