Hello,
I am a student with a very complicated background… I started off in a public high school freshman year and for half of sophomore year, but throughout that process I became very ill for unknown reasons at the time. I received migraines 4-5 times a week that lasted up to 12 hours that left me unable to function while going through one, I formed pneumonia twice and other small viruses constantly along the way… long story short, I was missing SO much school and was struggling to an extreme extent to catch up with my work. I left public school with mostly B / C’s (and I think two D’s) , then I switched to an online program that would correlate with my medical issues. I graduated with average grades of A/B/C’s and a GPA of 3.0 (which was heartbreaking because I used to be a straight A student). Turns out that I had lyme disease and just needed to be monitored and treated with antibiotics to stabilize it as much as they could, and I was also extremely allergic to wheat which was triggering madness in my body.
So here I am left with a bad high school transcript when I really couldn’t do anything about it at the time, and am trying to find a college that will accept me.
I want to major in physical anthropology and proceed to graduate school to study primatology. It has been my dream since I was a small child to work with primates and that hasn’t changed a bit!
There are so many amazing undergraduate programs out there that leave me breathless just thinking about (such as Duke), but unfortunately with my high school transcript there is no way I could get in. So I was planning on attending community college for a year (or two if I have to) to bring up my GPA and show Universities how hard I work and how great of a student I really am.
I am really struggling here trying to figure out a plan. It would be great for some advice!
Thank you.
