@pazhhalysta . . .
- It looks like you’ve really taken a good amount of rigor in your soph-jr years; perhaps this contributed to your “downfall.”
- I'm going to assume you're not 1st-gen and then underrepresented minority, and your high school is undoubtedly funded well. But you have had some hardship to overcome with your taking care of your younger sister. You can address this, perhaps even in your personal statement with added creativity or in the short topical essays.
- You sound like the picture-perfect type who'd kill any CA community college you'd attend with a 4.0 or near to it. If you do this, be sure to go honors, etc., and I think that you might be be an ideal UCLA xfer admit a couple years down the road.
You’re certainly unique, because of your Russian expertise. So play this up as much as possible.