I feel like I've messed up my education, any advice?

I'm currently a Junior in High School. Like the title says I feel like I've messed up my education. I feel like I'm behind everyone else that goes to my school. Many people in my school took things like algebra 1 and geometry in middle school, but unfortunately the bum-ass useless middle school I went to never offered any advanced classes. Hell you couldn't even chose your own electives. So now in Junior year I'm taking algebra 2/trig, a class which has already been taken by most juniors as sophmores. I mean its also being taken by freshman as well, so I'm one of the only juniors in the class. It really just makes me feel out of place, but I need the class in order to take precalc (which is mostly taken by juniors). I want to take AP Calc senior year so I can knock that class out of the way for the major I want (computer science), but since I never had the chance to take any advanced classes back in middle school, and because stupid me never did summer school, I'm basically a year behind...

Also, I never took world history 2 sophmore year! This is because I used to go to school in california for like half a school year, and I signed up late so they chose classes for me. I never thought anything of it because thats what I was used to, but now I regret it because the system is different over here in Virginia. Even though I don't necesarily need WH2 because you only need 2 years of history + Gov here for a standard diploma. The thing is I don't want a normal diploma, I want an advanced one. My sisters and my brother have all gotten adv. diplomas, so I feel like its in my best interest to get one as well. Besides I want to make sure my chances to get into a good school are as high as possible. So now I either have to take a virtual learning course or take it over the summer. And I already have to take precalc over the summer in order to get AP Calc...

My sciences are a little bit less of an issue, but I still just feel like I'm behind. If I still lived in Cali, I would've taken chemistry back in Sophmore year, but because you need Alg 2 for chemistry at the school I'm going to now, most people won't take it until Junior year. So while I'm technically on track here, I can't just drop Alg 2 for something else or else I'll lose chemistry, and if I want an advanced diploma I need both chemistry and Alg 2...

I just feel so screwed. I should already have Algebra 2 under my belt, most people already do, but like I said I literally can't get rid of it unless I want to throw my advanced diploma out of the window. I'm taking Spanish 3, but if I can't take Algebra 2 and chemistry, I literally have no reason to take Spanish anymore because you only need 2 years of a language for a standard diploma! So many things just conflict with each other that I just don't even know what to do. I don't enjoy coming to school this year because of the looming fact I feel behind. And to top it off, this is the year that counts! The SATs are this year, and this is the year that colleges may look at. I don't want them to see that I'm basically utterly average though, but it seems like there is nothing I can even do about it. Its either continue to go for the advanced and just slug through the year with classes I don't even enjoy (with the exception of my electives), or just drop down to the standard with classes I find enjoyable. And yes I understand school isnt all fun and games, but whats the point of taking a class if you literally get no satisfaction out of it. Please respond as soon as you can because time is running out, the second week of school has already passed, any longer and its gonna be even more difficult.

Submitted September 12, 2019 at 08:17PM by _Dwagin_ https://ift.tt/34IkZhi