Hello, everyone!
It never occurred to me that I’d ever get accepted into all of the schools I applied to(UCSB, UCD, UCSD[dream school], and SJSU) as a bio major. I had a 3.29 GPA after Fall Quarter of 2016. Winter, I took biology, physics for scientists and engineering, and a speech class. I was doing fairly well until mid-quarter. My parents were going through a marriage complication and I ended up getting involved. A lot of verbal abuse went on and most of it was blaming me (words are too harsh to be mentioned). At first, it didn’t get to me, but then after hearing it so often, it affected me. I also had to take care of my siblings(picking them up from school, taking them to their extracurricular activities/ tutors, etc.). Not only that, I also work. I had a difficult time trying to balance school life and personal life, so I was debating whether or not I should drop my classes. At the time, I was at a D for both bio and physics. Things got better at home and I thought I could carry both of my D’s to at least a C. But then around the last few weeks of the quarter, my aunt (she took care of me since I was a baby and was always my #1 supporter so she’s like a mom to me) passed away because of breast cancer. At that point, I had no control of my emotions and lost focus. I did try to concentrate and study for my last exams for both classes, but I had a hard time doing so. In the end, I failed both of those classes.
I started seeing my school’s psychiatrist recently and was told that I was experiencing different forms of depression and anxiety, but have been going through other methods to cure it instead of using medication. I can see the improvements I’m making so far.
I have no idea what I should do right now. I already contacted UCSB and have been placed under commensurate review. I’m yet to contact the rest of the other schools out of fear. I know I should, but what’s worse is that I don’t know how to tell my parents if I end up getting rescinded and the school’s won’t take my appeal and they really want me to go to either UCSD, UCSB, and UCD. Their marriage complication already eased down, but if this happens, the complication will start again and I don’t want to be the reason for their split.
Please help! I’m extremely desperate right now.