Not to pile on but you’re “toxic” friends, are being “mean girls”.
Your GPA and your goals are fine.
Your GPA and your goals are fine!
Your rank, in the end, won’t matter because we don’t know what these schools are looking for.
“Perfect students” exist, but even they don’t get in where they expect to get into school.
The ivies/top schools have a small number of seats. Most of those seats are already filled with sons and daughters of billionaires, Olympic athletes and celebrities. There just isn’t room enough for everyone who wants to attend those schools.
I get that you’re depressed so I want you to understand something that occurs in every California medical office that I’ve been to this past year. (And I go almost daily because of my surgeries, my diabetes, and my health.)
Every surgeon, physician, physician’s assistant, specialist, physical therapist and nurse is asking the patients the same questions:
Are you having any symptoms of depression?Do you feel good about yourself? Do you want to cause harm or injury to yourself or anyone else?
It’s also posted in every waiting room I’ve been to this past year. They are addressing mental illness IMMEDIATELY in the visit, and in a couple of visits, they dismissed the nurse, to talk privately with me about this. I was impressed!
When I have car pooled with my adult children to their appointments, my kids asked me, “why are they bringing up mental health questions?”
If you were a patient locally, in California, you would’ve been asked this question during your visit. They want to erase the stigma that is negative about mental health. They’re bringing it out in the open because everyone needs a little help every once in a while.
When your pediatrician dismissed your concerns, SHE was the lazy one. She wasn’t willing to do the work of a good physician- caring for her patient’s needs and not the parents needs.
The “proof is in the pudding”, you have a phenomenal academic record; that’s not being lazy, that’s being industrious.
My daughter chose not to go to ivy, even though she got in. She went to SUNY Buffalo, in upstate New York because their programs almost guaranteed her an entrance into medical school. She changed majors and is a phenomenal CS electrical engineer double major! She has done extremely well here in California with a SUNY Buffalo education.
Don’t listen to your toxic, immature friends. Do what you want to do, when you want to do it and don’t be their “puppet”.
As for your parents, culturally they don’t want to be ashamed or embarrassed that somebody might need to see a counselor every once in a while.
You may be able to find a community clinic that you can attend, on your own, without your parents knowledge; that will fund you and will talk to you about your valid concerns.
