I should’ve made this more clear in my post–I wasn’t necessarily referring to just Ivies (Yale, Princeton, etc.) but more so the “top” schools (hence the Ivy+) like Duke, Berkeley, or Stanford. But yeah, I know I’m probably stressing myself too much about it but it’s hard not to feel like years of effort were wasted just for a few weeks of an academic downswing, and I guess I’m trying to see how bad that hurt my chances. I’ll look into to other schools, but because of cost I’m basically constrained to UCs (which I’ve heard prioritize GPA) and “prestigious” privates.