I am so screwed.

sqdwfe13
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:25:18 +0000

I got a D. A freaking D. I’ve never even gotten a C, I’ve gotten only 2 Bs, and now here I am with a D forever etched onto my high school transcript. Until today when I got my report card, I had a glimmer of hope that it would become a C if I performed well on my final, but alas I sucked at my final and I got a D for the semester.

I am just SO screwed, my college admissions chances right now=0%.

This post is sort of just a whine since I’m really depressed right now. I screwed it up for myself. I could blame it on my incompetent cold-hearted Precalc teacher who refused to help me and my missing 25% of instruction due to being sick, naturally being horrible at math, and never being able to catch up, but no, that’d just make me seem irresponsible.
And it’s a math class, whether I like it or not, colleges are going to look at it as failing a core academic course. I’ve heard tales of kids getting straight As except for 1 D, or 1 C, and automatically getting rejected.

I’m not looking at HYPMS but I am looking at top-tier and some middle-tier liberal arts colleges. But there are tens of thousands of kids without a single D, without Cs, heck without any Bs, my SAT score isn’t that amazing, my course load for junior year is pretty non-rigorous (which I regret HORRIBLY), and average, maybe a bit above-average, extracurriculars with little leadership. So I just really can’t think what college in their right mind would want to accept me.

So, uh… make me feel better or worse or advise me or whatever you want.
What can I possibly do to redeem myself now? (I’m pretty sure I’m going to make an A this semester in regular Precalculus, but I doubt that counteracts the D too much, if at all) I’m only taking 2 AP classes this year, I was taking 3 but I dropped one, but I was thinking about taking up 1 or 2 online now to make up for the lack thereof. I know a bunch of my kids in my grade taking 4-5 AP courses at once and getting As in all of them. I want to try to aim for a really high SAT score, like 2250+. I could try self-studying some APs…would that help? I’m completely bored this semester and do have the time and the willpower to do these things.