<p>This is a slightly long, weird story</p>
<p>At the end of tenth grade I started having trouble sleeping, but I didn’t think it would affect me too much. By eleventh grade I was only getting 3,4 hours of sleep every night, felt like a zombie half the time, felt that my thinking was foggy, and began to struggle to keep up my grades. They were still A’s though and I developed a really silly, punch drunk sense of humor so I guess my friends didn’t notice. I thought I would just try to sleep more and it would all be cool. But it didn’t work, I had an even harder time, sometimes getting none. I used to get done with things before mostly everyone else and understand it fine but now I was taking like twice as long and still couldn’t get it, I felt really confused. It was time for AP and tests. I got a 3 on bio, which is decent, but I got a “you would most likely get a 4 or a 5” as the result back from a practice test AT THE END OF 10TH GRADE, which is when I took accelerated biology, and I had studied like crazy for a year in AP bio since then. At the start of senior, I couldn’t go to sleep before 1 am on multiple mornings ---- so I skipped. I was freaking out and *<strong><em>ed at this point because I still had a hard time concentrating and felt a little emotionally numb, and I had thought that summer would be enough to catch up.
At the end of all of this I decided to take a gap year to get my s</em></strong> together before going to college. That’s where I am right now, graduated a few months ago and need to backtrack according to the traditional timeline and apply to colleges. But I’m in serious need of some advice. My grades by year went 4,4,4,3 and I skipped 35 days of school senior year+some actual illness absences for 40 total. I was involved in science olympiad, drama, debate, and volunteered during H.S. casually and quit everything in senior year. I didn’t take any subject tests. SAT CR770 M770 W750 What do I do now? I want to go into engineering, and I’ll totally be capable by college. Also, I think it would be good to stay around home so I don’t have to stay in a dorm, or if I do I can still come back home if I’m having problems, so I was hoping for CMU. Do I have a chance?</p>