Im currently a junior in a vocational-technical school where all my classes are honors level. Personally, i’m in an exercise physiology program where i take medical classes and college classes where i get the credits after passing their final exam. As of my junior year, my grades could definitely be a lot better (its decreased a bit from sophomore year where i got all A’s and a few B’s across the board) but i’m currently working as hard as i can.
Im taking precalc and i’m going to be honest, my grades have been taking a large dip from marking period1 to no now. It went from an 88, 86, 79 and i currently have a 79 for marking period 4. It might sound like a really dumb excuse to say this, but i think my grade would be a whole lot better if my teacher could actually teach. My math teacher is new to my school but he makes a lot of mistakes when teaching, uses terms that aren’t even math (things like boing), and just nothing makes sense, even though i try to teach myself using my textbook and help from a tutor. Usually when i have an upcoming assessment for the class i have a session with my tutor and he helps me work out any kinks. The thing is, i’m so confident and ready for the test or quiz and when i actually take it, the problems are nothing like the ones he used in class or like the textbook level of difficulty and i blank out. My confidence level just drops in the class, and so have my grades.
(Side note: I have ADHD, but I’ve never told my school about it or used it as an excuse or anything)
My qpa (our school doesn’t do gpa) has been been pretty low (91.22 as of sophomore year) and now i’m afraid it’s dropped. Admittedly, i had a difficult time in freshmen year adjusting to my school because i didn’t know anyone there because it was a school students had to take an exam to gain admission and a majority of my friends didn’t get in, or went to a different school.
Im going through my first relationship heartbreak (not really breaking up as we’re leaving each other on good terms, but it has still affected me a lot) and ive gotten a lot of stress and anxiety from my family (long story short, my parents fight everyday, blame siblings and i for things we havent done, cant do what i want because of my parents).
Being that i’m planning on going into engineering, how much would this affect my college application? I am planning on applying to schools such as WPI and RPI, Northeastern, Boston University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Also, is there a way to somehow say in your application or the common app that your teachers weren’t really doing a good job of teaching? I have another case where my english teacher played (and still does) a lot of favoritism towards specific classes and people and it takes massive effect when she grades.
I hope that all made sense to you, and thank you for your time.