So basically, I moved for my senior year from California to Colorado. I spent my first 3 years of high school in California. When I moved, my transcripts got wonky, and I had to switch out of IB, I had to quit my extracurriculars, and I had to take a lot of freshmen courses due to requirements. My grades plummetted due to depression, because of a lot of family stuff and a lot of personal issues. Prior to my senior year, my transcript was phenomenal; I had maintained a 4.0, I did I.B., I had so many extracurriculars (about 6 clubs/organizations per week), for all four years. I always took the highest class that I could. However, senior year is absolutely horrible, where I had about a 2.8 GPA for semester 1 (and I am getting my GPA back up and it’s currently a 3.2), and only 1 extracurricular. I want to know, if colleges would still take me, specifically, UC Irvine. It has been my dream school since sophomore year, and I don’t want to let it go, and my junior year, when I was over-credited by about 60 credits (now I’m barely graduating), I could have been easily admitted, IF I had one more extracurricular, or something more outstanding, and now, I feel as if I genuinely have nothing. I am so scared that UCI won’t care about the rest of my transcript because my senior year is so horrible. I don’t know what to think, and I can’t start UCI this year, because I need to establish residency so I can get in-state tuition again. The earliest I could start would be the Spring semester, and the latest I’m willing to start is next fall (2019).
If anyone has any advice for me about this transition, I’m willing to listen. I’m so worried I won’t get in, that it’s to the point that I don’t want to try.