u/Famous_Carpet5182

I hear about imposter syndrome among low-income students at top uni’s, but it’s genuinely so bad for me. I had a bad act score, ok AP scores (for hypsm at least) and mediocre ecs.

But oh my goddd I am so awful at math. Like I’m going to have to start from calc 1. This sounds ungrateful but I promise I’m not. I’ve shared my academics here a few times and everyone just responds so negatively on how I even got hypsm.

I think I’m completely over my head. Like the classes will literally EAT me alive. And now people are telling me to pursue a PHD or conduct research when those ideas never even crossed my mind until a few months ago. I have no passion and really just wanted to be a high school AP teacher and chill.

Also it’s binding so even if I wanted to leave (I don’t) I couldn’t