mental health

futurefilm3
Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:59:01 +0000

I’m a junior in high school and I have a lot of mental health issues (depression, anxiety, etc.). I’m diagnosed and go to therapy, but my grades are dropping because I don’t put in effort or pay attention at all. I have good test scores (in the 2000s for SATs), and my gpa has been about a 4.0 before this year. Over the summer I had traumatic experiences that really affected my mental health, and my grades suffered a lot. I’m very interested in film and I do well in a film class at my school. I’m applying to NYU Tisch and USC and other schools in the fall, and I’m not worried about the quality of my portfolio, but I am nervous about my grades holding me back. I take AP Chem and AP macroecon, and all of my other classes are honors. My gpa for 3/4 of junior year is 3.6 i think, and my overall is 3.89. I plan on taking AP Spanish, bio, lit, and possibly euro next year. I’m well rounded (national honors society, drama, cross country, mock trial team, etc.), but I’m just very worried that my grades will hold me back, and I’m not sure that I will be able to “just work hard and bring them up” because it’s extremely difficult for me to put in the effort to school (not to anything else though, I work very hard at my part time job and I put a lot of time and care into the film festival I’m involved in). Do you think that gpa is that big of a factor? Also would there be any way to get some more financial aide money because of mental health issues, or is that not taken into consideration?