What goes up must come down

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Hi guys,
Okay so I generally am an A student and I got mainly As the last two years in high school, but this year I messed up and now I have all Bs.
Here is a general overview:
AP Chemistry: D+
AP Stats: B+
Anatomy: B-
English: A
AP History: B
Spanish: B</p>

<p>What's worse is that this is my Junior year and I know that Junior year is supposed to be super important since this is what colleges will see. It also doesn't help that colleges will see I had all As then suddenly have all Bs, so they'll think I didn't put in as much as effort this year. Much as I hate to admit it, I probably could have done a lot better. In fact if I had just done one or two points better on my test I probably could have had mainly As.</p>

<p>But now that it has come to this I'm worried about what colleges will think. I know it probably doesn't look good but what can I do to make this better? Will getting As in senior year clear things up? Do I still have a chance to get into college?
I guess I'm just regretting what I've done up until this point and I don't know what consequences will come out of it...or what to do about it.</p>

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<p>Is there any real explanation for the drop in grades? Like divorce, death, serious illness etc?</p>

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<p>My grandparents from both sides of my family died this year. Only my grandma is living right now.
…This may seem rather blunt, but they lived overseas so I didn’t know them very well. My mother did go oversees for a month to attend the funeral while I was in school, but I think that this should not be an excuse for me to do so poorly.</p>

<p>There probably is nothing that I can do at this point but accept what has happened.
I probably just cannot accept seeing myself this way…</p>