How much does this hurt me?
To sum everything in a Reddit post: Was an excellent student in middle school (doesn’t matter but context). Got to high school, struggled first semester freshman year (~3.6), emotional/mentally was in a terrible spot. Bad relationship with my dad, always fighting with him, I hated school, starting coping with weed (ik I’m a dumbass). Second semester freshman year was like a 3.3 or something. Then, I started sophomore year. Started better but then my friend was murdered in gang violence. Destroyed me mentally and went back to weed. Sophomore year was like a 3.32 and a 3.33. I know, not great. A lot of reflecting over the summer, started junior taking pretty good classes at least for what my high school offered (Calculus, AP Physics, APES), but also can’t stack a ton of APs because my school caps the amount you take, you have to take a religion class (Jesuit school) and there’s very few APs available to juniors. Just finished this year off with a 4.0 first semester and a 4.0 second semester so pretty decent GPA trend. Idk what any of my weighted GPAs are because my school doesn’t weigh honors and idk if they do for APs either. My essay covers everything and I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time on it so I’m happy with it but am I just screwed because of my sophomore year?
Other stuff that you might want to know is pretty decent extra curricular and I can also drop my school list or extra curricular list if needed.
SAT is a 1480 but I’m studying over the summer to get it above 1500.
Thanks!