I’ve been admitted to a selective Ivy League school, and I can’t help but feel like there might have been a mistake. At every admitted student day and in all the videos I’ve seen, people have talked about how they’re at the top of their class and always performed amazingly on tests and only struggled once they went to college (that one story of failing their first test or something). Problem is, I’ve failed many, many tests – I’ve scored the class low an embarrassingly large amount, and I’m worried that I might not make it in college. My high school is not competitive at all, and even though I barely scraped by here and managed to keep my good grades, I feel like that’s not a good indicator for being able to do the same in college. I suffer from severe executive dysfunction that makes my time management absolutely horrible, and I can’t even begin to think about how awful my college experience will be if I keep that up. This school is apparently infamous for having insane grade deflation and depressed students, and I don’t want to go to an Ivy League just to drop out or transfer to a school that I could have accepted now with the added bonus of scholarships
Going to this school would be a dream, I’m just worried that I’m not academically competent enough. I had also been admitted to another Ivy+, but I don’t think the workload would be much “easier” per se and I would send in my deposit for the Ivy immediately if it wasn’t for the concerns mentioned above. I much prefer the Ivy over the Ivy+ for other reasons.
Has anyone been in a similar situation? Are there any real solutions to my executive dysfunction? I feel like ive tried everything at this point
Any help or advice is greatly appreciated, thank you all