<p><strong>THIS IS REALLY LONG BUT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ AND HELP</strong></p>
<p>Ok, so I'm a current junior in highschool and I feel as if I wont get into any colleges.
Let me give you a backstory.</p>
<p>I'm very overweight and have been constantly harassed my entire life. Last year when I was a sophomore it got so bad that I would constantly leave school or skip classes and just cry. I felt like a failure and I couldn't talk about it with anyone. Along with the pain of my own depression in January my sister attempted commiting suicide and that was a huge blow for my family and my sanity. My own depression got so bad that I let other kids bully me into failing 3 classes. I failed english, advanced biology and AP world. My GPA went from a 3.5 to a 2.3. This year I thought was going to be better but after my 1st quarter at school the harassment began again but even worse than before. So far my grades are decent but I dropped down to a regular math class (I'm still a year ahead of where I'm supposed to be though) because I was so stressed and I got put into a class full of kids who harassed me. I constantly do bad in class and feel like an idiot because I'm afraid to speak up about anything in that class. I'm currently failing and I'm pretty sure I will yet again fail a class. I'm going to speak to my teacher to see if he can make it so I even pass with a D (I will retake the 1st semester next year to raise the GPA no matter what. I dropped after right before 1st quarter ended so I have an auto F for 1st quarter.) Other than that my grades are fine, but I have a few C's due to missing school because of harassment and depression.</p>
<p>I used to have big dreams of going to NYU or Boston University but I know now that wont happen.
What I was wondering if there is any chance due to my circumstances of getting into a decent school. The school I'm looking at is the University of Minnesota.</p>
<p>I'm taking my ACT later this year and I will take it as many times as I need to get a 33. My practice tests always put me around there.
My practice SAT tests put me around a 1900, but I'm going to study to get a 2100.
I'm involved in very many E.C's involing Speech, Debate, Knowledge Bowl, Student Council/Student Government, Principal's Advisory Council, Theater, Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra and Choir. I'm also a Drama captain and a Speech captain. I also have a job (I work at Old Navy) and constantly volunteer throughout my community and am active in church.</p>
<p>I'm retaking 2 of the 3 classes I failed last year (english and biology, we only need 1 semester of world so I'll have a 0 on my GPA which sucks.) and I've talked to the teachers and 1 is giving me an auto A due to the fact I only failed because I was missing a short story prompt with is an auto fail if you don't have it turned in (it was due on the last day of school and I missed because of harrasment.)</p>
<p>If I rock my 2nd semster this year and my year next year I can get my GPA up to a 3.7 weighted GPA.</p>
<p>I want to go into buisness and eventually work for a company that involves fashion. My dream job is to be a fashion buyer or fashion merchandiser. I love buisness overall and would love to go into it. I'm not interested in journalism or science or anything like either of those. :B</p>
<p>Please please please let me know if there are any chances of getting into any decent school with my possible scores and circumstances.</p>