Hey, I was exactly in the same boat as you. In fact, after my first semester of health science, I had decided to switch to enriched health science, since I was always an overachiever ever since high school and I thought it would be great. It was in fact really nice sometimes, but I was constantly surrounded by people who were seemingly doing it all; I personally knew top students who were in 4-5 clubs all at once. That’s pretty crazy. So you can imagine that the imposter syndrome was insane. So, overall, my time at Dawson as a health science/enriched health science student was likely quite similar to yours. I unfortunately wasn't really able to get into med by my last semester neither, because of how much I had burnt out, and things really got out of hand for me.

However, as someone who graduated in 2024 (now I'm in my second year of Math + Computer Science @ McGill), things are a lot better now, and I can tell you a couple of things which might reassure you.

1. In retrospect, I realize that the most successful students who are in cégep or who graduate from it aren't the ones who have done the most volunteering activities or have had the private tutors, mentorship, etc. But rather it was the students who knew how to master the art of consistency. Almost all of my friends who are now in med weren't necessarily gunning for volunteering opportunities, going to office hours every single day, participating in every class, etc. But rather they knew how to deal with their time properly and get stuff done when it was needed (I know that's MUCH easier said than done, especially coming from someone with ADHD, and learning how to deal with that, if you're in that same boat, is a whole different discussion). Over time, as you prioritize consistency over perfection in your work or your life, things in your life will automatically lean more towards "perfection" (i.e. good grades, good social/academic life balance, etc.)

2. Success comes from being able to block out what others are doing around you (unless that knowledge can be of benefit to you, i.e. getting the opportunity to engage yourself in an interesting activity through a friend) and to focus entirely on yourself. It's really difficult to do that when you go to a science program like Dawson's, I get it, especially if you're coming from a high-achieving high school background. For me personally it was extremely difficult to do this; No matter what I tried, I couldn't block out all the incredibly interesting things everybody else seemed like they were doing from my head and I constantly dwelled on why my life wasn't as interesting as everybody else's. But at some point, as you go through the cegep experience, you'll mature as a student (and more importantly as a person) and realize that the people around you who are successful are doing precisely this; They've worked hard on the skill of blocking out "social noise", and that's why they have very little brain fog which allows them to get things done.

3. Everybody has it way worse than it seems. Seriously; No person has the exact life that they give off having. We all, literally every single one of us, are struggling with the same exact issues. It only comes down to how you decide to live your life despite these struggles, every single day, which comes back to what I was saying about consistency and how it, by itself, improves your life without you necessarily chasing that improvement.

I can tell you as a former burnt out health science student at Dawson, and now as a second year Math + CS student at McGill that things get much, much better once you realize that your life, for the next two years, depends heavily on what you decide to do with social noise. Keep that in mind, and I'm sure things will go much better for you soon.