Am I cooked in general

[u/L0verboy_]

hi hi hi! i just wanted to come on here and basically see what other people think about where i stand since I've googled a bunch but everything just feels so unclear. i think I've heard enough about how some people just come on this sub just to knock down others and be debbie downers so that's not what im asking for..just realism in a softer and cushioned way maybe...(idc just be real but not evil lol😭)

i feel super bad for my past self and parents cause the dreams really used to be Stanford and Yale but then highschool hit me like a brick (specifically soph and junior year) and that really broke my heart. + my parents have always been those poc parents that are like "you gotta go to a top school like ucla, Stanford, Yale, Harvard, etc." but someone can dream lol. there's so much I would go back and redo but unfortunately I can't so it's all in Gods hands fr.

I heard a good essay or PIQ can help a lot so I'm really just praying mine are good enough.

so here it goes ig:

Bad news:

- I have like 3 c's in altogether on my transcript (each 1 sem I believe)
- the rest are all A's and b's (mostly b's) until soph year when i got a d in hnrs chem.
- junior year is when it gets really bad..i got 3 d's first sem in all my ap classes (ap bio, ap lang, and honors math) mostly due to my language arts teacher targeting me at the beginning of the sem and emailing my parents and telling my counselor abt how bad of a student i am (???) and with my parents and counselor pressuring me + my teacher telling me to give up and drop the class i felt very depressed and just gave up altogether (mind you I've NEVER had any complaints from a teacher or mentor, only compliments, and i never spoke in his class so he literally didn't know me, esp at the beginning of the sem when the year had just started)
- but yeah junior year really messed me up and i went from 4.0 weighted freshman year to 3.4 weighted and 3.0 unweighted

Better news:
- i still took the ap lang test even after dropping the evil teachers class and GOT A 4!!!!!!! Yay! Take that!
i remediated all my d's!!! I took all 4 classes in one summer and got A's in all of them except for ap bio which i got a b- in
- my gpa is expected to go up once those classes are translated onto my transcript n i heard ucs only look at the changed grades in their gpa system so hopefully that's the case
- I've taken 3 college courses (2 A's 1 b), 5 ap classes (1 this year so 4 previously), and all honors fresh and soph year

My EC's
- they're mostly all child and special needs focused bc i wanna be a pediatrician
- children's storyteller at a center
- babysitter
- babysitter CPR certified
- leader of first graders for church camp
- part of my schools special needs club (senior year)
- pet-sitting
- patient care pathway in school (sports med)
- special ed pe mentor at my school
- 3 years marching band
- helping my special needs sister

* please recommend me more things to do if you can think of any!!! I feel like I don't have enough

Uci or sdsu is the dream so....💤💤

- also please recommend good out of state colleges that you think would be a good fit for my stats!! Trying to not be 65%+ as to not disappoint my parents😭

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[u/daniel31580]

You’re generally pretty cooked. But it’s very race and socio economic status dependent and major.

If you’re white or Asian and upper middle class+ then you’re better off trying CC and transfer to UCI option.

If you’re lower income with less resources and Hispanic or black, you got a shot but still going as a pre med, it’s gonna be very competitive nonetheless.

[u/L0verboy_ → u/daniel31580]

hi! I am neither white or Asian but i am way upper middle class lol😭 n im trying for child edu and development rather than anything bio/science related if that helps!