Background info before the questions

Read only the bolded part if you want to get straight to the questions

I live in Quebec (with a Quebec PR card). Quebec has a system called “cegep”/“pre-university” where instead of grade 12, we have to do 2-3 years of this “pre-university” to apply for university in Quebec. I’m currently in my first year going into second and my grades are not looking good (I failed humanities and had to do summer courses that ended last week). I didn’t really try during my first year because I didn’t have a goal. I was absolutely demotivated, alive but not living my life if that makes sense. In my first year, I failed all 2 of my humanities courses with one being 17% and one being in the 20%... From this alone, you can tell I was an absolute wreck (skipping classes, sleeping in, rotting in bed). During summer (before summer classes), a close friend (who got accepted to Sheridan) introduced me to the school. In a long time, I felt passionate and determined as if the path I was walking was in complete darkness and someone just turned on the lights. it motivated me so much that I began genuinely trying my best and got a 90’s in my summer humanities course. I will most definitely lock in during the upcoming year and hopefully get a high 80’s or low 90’s for all my courses.

Now here’s the questions

1- Quebec cegep requires you to take French courses and French exit exam to graduate and apply for universities inside of Quebec. Now Sheridan is outside of Quebec therefore I have heard that Quebec students only need to do first year in cegep and go straight to Sheridan (if accepted). I’m going into my second year and haven’t taken any French courses yet or the French exit exam but French isn’t a mandatory course needed to apply for Sheridan (I’m pretty sure the required courses are English, Humanities, and a certain number of Art courses). Would I still need to take the French courses? Also if students are allowed to go straight to Sheridan after the first year (without graduating cegep), can I still get accepted as a second year if I couldn’t graduate cegep for not taking a French course & not doing French exit exam (since first years doesn’t need to graduate to be accepted as well)?

2- My overall avg for my first year is for sure under or within 60’s (which is lower than required overall avg of 65%). Now if I hypothetically did amazing and got a realistic overall avg of high 80’s for all my courses next year, would Sheridan care about the first semester or would it be an avg of the two years. Also if the summer course is there to “make-up” for my last year’s mistake, would I calculate my avg with both the shitty humanities and good humanities or would shitty humanities mark just be on my records and not on my avg?

3- Does having a Quebec PR card let me apply as a domestic student or an international student?

4-I’ve been hearing so many people talk about how Sheridan only focuses on the portfolio and the grades are only important when applying (to have a required avg of above a 65%) or when you are waitlist because your portfolio is mediocre (your grades are used to compared with other waitlisted student’s grades and whoever had a better grade gets accepted. Is it true? So as long as I have an overall avg of above 65% and have a really good portfolio, they wouldn’t care abt my grade?

Extra

I am absolutely terrible at French and personally with all the experience I’ve had with Quebec in the span of 5 years, I absolutely do not want to learn it.

I don’t have high expectations for people to see this post because it’s very long. I’ll most likely just ask this to my school advisor (in a months when new semester starts). But obviously it will be nice if I have someone who used to live in Quebec/ studied in cegeps (that now attend Sheridan animation) to tell me about their experience

I was in a very dark place during my first year. I have received enough criticism around me in regard to it so please, only use that information to understand the situation.

I am taking the required art courses (think).

I do know how to draw as I took professional art classes for a long time but I will be searching for a Sheridan portfolio tutor(s) soon.

English is not my first language so sorry if there are few errors.

I had to make a Reddit account to ask this because I am worried. I have recently took him in from a friend who had to move away for college. She personally asked me to get rid of him or keep him myself. After she left the rabbit with me, I think she is ghosting me because she is not responding to any of my texts. I could not get any information about the rabbit other than the fact that he might be 5 or 6 month old. It has been 2 weeks.

Worry:
As she had left me with her remaining rabbit food that can last about 3 months and pee pads, it’s not a huge worry at the moment. My biggest worry is the fees needed to take care of him. I am a college student and have a part time job. I make about 270$ every month and 190$ goes to my tutoring classes. I have 2000 in my bank account saved up that can be used at the moment. I’m not sure if the rabbit is neutered or vaccinated.

Issue:
The rabbit is eating very well but he is not drinking that well. Because of it being summer, it is incredibly hot but his water isn’t noticeably gone. I have tried giving him cool water and I change the water every night and morning. When there were no changes, I mixed the food with water, left it to expand for a few minutes, and gave it to him with small pieces of cucumber. He ate all the cucumber and drank the water completely, leaving only the mushy rabbit food. He’s not drinking water on its own.

Conclusion:
I have never taken care of an animal before and I am very scared because I see a lot of people say rabbits get easily sick. At first, I thought of giving him to a shelter but knowing how harsh it is for animals in shelters, I couldn’t possibly bring myself to. I called the vet recently about getting him checked up and It may take a while to get an appointment because there is only one doctor that treats exotic animals. I am not bonding very well with the rabbit at all because my priority right now is to get everything under control and make sure he doesn’t get ill. I don’t have any toys or treats to keep him entertained. He just lays under my work desk all day and I’m afraid he might get depressed. I do want to bond with him once everything is settled. Any advices and tips are appreciated.