I don't know what to do anymore.

sjjeong100
Fri, 09 Oct 2015 05:12:24 +0000

I’ve never been a overachiever.
During my middle school years, I gained a bad habit of not studying. I constantly procrastinated, and because my courses were easily doable without any study, I breezed through with good grades even with my bad habits.
Come 9th grade year, I had to put more effort into my work as I was taking harder classes than I was in middle school. I was taking ap biology, alg 2/pre calc (one in each semester), and honors English 9 for my academic courses. I did well enough my first semester, but my bad habits caught up to me during second semester, and I ended up with a C in ap bio, and a low B/high C in my math class. I barely completely my homework assignments and rarely studied for tests, so even though they were horrible grades, I was surprised myself. My parents were concerned with my grades when they came out, but truthfully, they didn’t get involved at all in any of my school activities, and a big part of that was them not being fluent in english. My dad worked from 9 am to 11 pm, and my mother was sick from stress a lot of the time. This is not saying I’m not grateful, I truly am, but I always wish that they were able to help me in school,

My family moved to another state in my 10th grade year. I didn’t know anyone, and I didn’t take the time to find out too much about my school, I just went there because it was the district I lived in. Because of the semi-advanced classes I took in 9th grade, I was placed in 10th grade honors English, AP world history, honors chemistry, and 2 full semesters of pre-calc(because this school didn’t do half semesters of pre calc). I was always the quiet kid, and aside from interactions with other students within my classes, I had no contact with anyone else. I ended up getting an A in AP world history, a solid C in chemistry, a B in pre calc, and an A in my English class. Overall, they weren’t the best grades, and that year was pretty much a low for me.
It became worse in my junior year at the school I was attending. I was largely influenced by my peers in which classes I chose to take, and I ended up with AP united states history, AP English 11, AP calculus, and AP physics. Because of my terrible study habits and my constant procrastination, my grades were terrible. A C- in AP calc, a B in AP english, a C in my AP physics class, and an A- in my AP us history class. Some of these classes were close to becoming lower, but I believe that my quiet, (in my opinion) respectful attitude in all my classes helped me in some aspects. After all this, I ended up with a pretty low gpa, 3.28 to be exact when unweighted. Because I wasn’t involved with any school activities/ extracurricular activities, I had nothing in that aspect too.
This is my senior year, the year I have to start applying to colleges, and with a 3.28 gpa, and a 51% class rank, I know that my chances of getting into any decent colleges are slim. and I don’t even have any extracurricular activities or sports to make up my low grades. I took my SAT several weeks ago, and I do not know my score yet. This year, I promised myself that I would get straight A’s, and join as many clubs as I could, but because the due dates for college applications are in less than 1 or 2 months, the only effect that’ll have on my gpa is raising it by only a few points, maybe to a 3.4 at best when first semester ends.
Can anyone tell me, realistically, the chance of me getting into college and being accepted? I have no idea where to even start, and the stress is making me sick. I truly regret my laziness in my junior year, basically my most important year, but what’s past is past and I can’t change any of that. Thanks for any replies…If this is the wrong website to post these kind of questions, I apologize, but I don’t know where else to put it out there.