Messed up grades what to do?

I am asking this for my friend Shou. He was a smart student but last year in his 11th grade 3 days before our exams began his best friend attempted suicide and was unstable for nearly 2 weeks,thus Shou was in a bad space if mind and messed up his grades. He still managed a 3.12 GPA about if 4.
Before that he did have good grades, he had 3.76 out of 4 in 10th grade. He has now recovered and has a perfect 4 GPA and is among the top 15% at school.
He has 1560 in SAT.
Plus he also does have a few school level prizes I think.
I just wanted to know if he could still get into top colleges. I just feel sorry for him.

Abot the Shou part in his name it’s not Shou for my name shougun. It’s Sho for Shourabh.

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For privacy reasons, among other reasons, “asking for a friend” posts are not allowed. If Shou wants opinions, he should open an account to ask. Closing thread.