My High School Dilemma

hogwarts2002
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 20:58:14 +0000

Hey, I’m a junior in high school and my school experience was a little different. Let me
explain.

I graduated middle school in USA (8th grade) then I moved to Asia for two years and had to repeat the 8th grade because I switched to the Cambridge Curriculum and I was really behind since their curriculum was harder than what I was used to. Note: I suffer from depression and anxiety which got significantly worse along with my grades, because my parents sort of forced me to be there.

So, fast forward two year later I came back to the US and now I’m a year behind everyone my age. So I start going into the 10th grade instead of 11th. I was upset that I would graduate a year later but I was fine since I figured I have a little while before worrying about SATs and college admissions. But after speaking to my guidance counselor she told me according to my birth date and age she had to place me in 11th grade. So now I’m a junior and I’m completely lost.

Right now I’m making up credits from the years I was in Asia and I have 9 classes a day right now. I haven’t been able to take AP classes because I’m already so behind. The rest of the kids have around 6 or 7 classes a day.

I really thought I would have more time and I’m trying to look on the bright side of things but the fact is: I have no idea when to start studying for SATs or what I should be doing and I also might have to go to summer school to make up some classes. So my question really is…what can I do now? It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to go to school somewhere such as UCLA or NYU but with all the things going on right now I feel like I won’t really stand out when I apply to schools even though I’m going to try my best this year I don’t know how colleges will see that.

I’ve also thought about applying to community college and then transferring to a four year college afterwords. But I’m really uncertain what I should head towards or look forward to. Any advice would be very helpful. I’m just really anxious about everything going on right now. Thanks for any advice anyone may have.