<p>I'm going to be a senior this year and Ive had an odd high school career. Every since I was little I have had crippling anxiety and it got worse when I got to high school. My 9th grade year I got almost all Ds and Cs because I would barley show up and that wrecks your grade, but I passed everything. My 10th grade year I got put into all honors classes because my teachers knew I was smart but barley showed up. This increased the stress and pressure and I basically stopped going to school all together and I would just stay home and read and teach my self instead of going to school. Over the course of that time I taught myself 2 languages, how to code (designed 2 apps) and freelanced for over a year. and read over 100 books. I also interned at a law firm called fish and Richardson. School was a combination of scary and flat out uninteresting for me. I went into my 11th grade year a 10th grader and caught back up over the course of the year and finished out with As and B's and one C+ and just enough absences to get by. This summer I'm taking 2 Stanford online classes and am still reading everyday. In 9th grade I started two clubs. I volunteered at the local shelter for 3 years. Played 1 year of football. Senior year I am taking 3 AP classes and honor credits to fill the year up. My anxiety dissipated but I still am cleaning up that mess. My teachers loved me and will write me recommendations and so will my counselor. But I don't think that Ivy league schools will care about my "story". I also got a combined 2310 on my SATs.There are many schools I want to go to. But I want to go to Yale mainly because my uncle teaches there and is friends with the dean of admissions, but I don't know if that will help. My other top choice is Amherst or Princeton. I hope to finish the year with a 3.9 UW. Any help is much appreciated! I also intend on majoring in either psychology or economics.</p>
<p>What is your UW GPA as of right now.
And they would expect you to explain why you greats weren’t so grade earlier on. Yale is a reach for everyone but it is probably more of a reach in your case since you have previously had a tendency to decide not to show up for class and a top school would rather have someone that they know will attend classes. If you had bad anxiety in high school chances are it will be much worse in college. </p>
<p>@Tola2015 My GPA is a 3.7 I believe. Also my anxiety has gotten better and I had perfect attendance last year after therapy. Thank you for the response! </p>
<p>I’m sorry; I’m just kind of confused how your unweighted GPA is a 3.7. </p>
<p>Same how is it 3.7 when you have a handful of D’s and C’s. I have a 3.63 with a couple of B’s</p>
<p>@tola2015 whoops meant 2.7. I am typing on a laptop. Last time I checked it was that. Also my 9th grade grades were not all D’s I had 2 D’s and 1 C and the rest were A’s or B’s. I cannot check the exact grades at the moment. I also did not mean All Ds that was a mistake</p>
<p>Dream away, or more like, ■■■■■ hard!</p>