Hi. I’m currently a high school junior and I’m incredibly stressed out. I genuinely try hard in school, and have really high expectations for myself. I am a hard worker, and participate in extracurriculars. However, I have several learning disabilities, and I have aspbergers disorder. Which means I have a hard time learning as fast as others around me. I also have chronic depression and anxiety, and that has caused me to do poorly on tests and grades. There for, I went into my freshman year of high school with a 3.7 GPA, and now I have a 3.1, which is not what I want AT ALL. My dream schools are NYU, and The City College of New York, but I am thinking my transcript this far will outweigh how hard I’ve really worked. What do I do? Highschool grades and GPA are making me obsessive, and scared.
First off, take a deep breathe. You really do seem like a person who truly cares about their education and that is fantastic. Junior year seems the most stressful because of the high expectations and pressures put on us, but it’ll be fine. Allowing ourselves to become overwhelmed will just make matters worse. Take care of yourself and try learning some stress relieving methods.
2nd: The GPA might be a little low, but my advice would be to just take good classes for the next semester (if you haven’t finished your first semester yet) and to plan well for next year. Make sure you choose classes that you feel are a good fit for you and don’t take classes you don’t feel prepared for. Also, never underestimate a single class because I did that with AP US History and, let’s just say that my first quarter grade was awful: D.
3rd: As a fellow junior, I’ve turned into the freak out mode myself. My grades aren’t terrible, but I’m taking classes at my high school and college at the same time. Because of that, I’ve become worried not only about being able to graduate on time, but I’m also an impatient and obsessive person so I’ve tried planning out how to graduate with my bachelors degree and get my hs diploma in the same year. Having a plan like that has stressed me out so much and I recently took my Physics final for my first semester and I received a D. I honestly thought I got an F. Now, my grade for the first semester of that class is a C, just like geometry last year. Despite that, I’m trying to accept that and work harder for the next semester so that I can get my grade up to a B for my final grade in that class, if not an A.
4th: hugs if ok The best thing to do is trust yourself in making good choices and strive hard while accepting that better things come from where you don’t expect them sometimes. I believe in you! You have some time left and my advice is to use that time well. Maybe you can bump your GPA up a bit? Good luck and I hope this helped 