What is the best I can do at this point?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I have no idea of this is the correct place to ask this, but hopefully I get an answer. I am a sophomore, by the way. Essentially, I have always been in every advanced class possible and consistently put up grades in the 93.5 range, but I ended last year with a 95.5, so I had been getting a lot better and I was proud of it. Anyway, this year started off alright with about a 93 GPA and then depression hit me hard and everything went to **** and now I'm going to finish the year with about an 88 overall. With my depression and anxiety issues, I have essentially come to the conclusion that my future is over and I will be fighting just to get accepted into state schools.</p>

<p>This week, however, with my depression treatments I've been going through, I was thinking:</p>

<p>I really did mess up bad and I dug myself a hole, but if I get back on track and average a 96 next year and get about a 2100 on my SATs, what is the best case scenario? What should be my range of colleges that I should aim for? I know I did terrible this year, but if I do what I just said, could it show that it really was the depression that ruined this year?</p>

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<p>An 88 is not terrible.</p>

<p>And in any case, even if you had perfect grades, it is very hard to get into a tip top school
(acceptance rates being from 7% to 20%) (and the true acceptance rate being lower, unless you are a URM, or have connections, etc)</p>

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<p>You’re probably not going to Harvard.</p>

<p>You probably have a good shot at top schools, and a great shot at state schools, especially if you have good ECs.</p>

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<p>It really depends on how competitive your school is and what major you plan to apply for. An 88 is not the end of the world, and not the end of UCs. You still have 3 semesters left! Plenty of time to show an upward trend.</p>