Throughout my seventeen years of life, I have always aspired to do big things and make my parents proud. I planned on getting into an Ivy League school, buy my parents their own beach house, and traveling the world. Little did I know there would be major bumps in the road that pulled me away from that big dream of mine. With so much pressure being a high school student, I felt the world was just caving in on me. Everyone’s story is a little different from each other, but I never expected high school to hit me this hard. Freshman year, all I focused on was adapting to this new world of mine for the next four years. Walking through the student entrance looking like a ten year old and seeing the upperclassmen with beards standing six foot five over me was intimidating, but I managed to get through. Sophomore year: “when colleges first start looking at you”. I chose to challenge myself a bit and take a couple honors courses. It pushed me to achieve academic success, but with college …show more content…
With stress from all my extracurricular activities, falling grades, and personal relationships, Harvard became out of reach. Just to even get by, I was desperate for help. I went to my counselor and she advised me the smart way to go would be to drop my AP course entirely. Together, we made a plan for college. Realistically with my grades, we settled that I am most likely headed toward a Cal State school. As the year went on, my grades slowly made their way back up. Now here I am; senior year, the best year of your life they say. I knew that personally I wanted to cherish every single memory made, but the time came where I had to impress an admissions office that could potentially change my life forever. I started to get emails and letters from schools interested in me, application dates opened up, and financial aid opportunities became available. That shrinking feeling came back again, and the pressure weighed me