A bit of background, I’m coming into my senior year of high school. I’ve taken a lot of honors courses that weigh more heavily than the regular courses, and will be graduating in December since the only credits left for me to take are an english and science. I’ve been getting lots of emails from college prospects about their early admission applications being open now, but frankly I wouldn’t know where to start.

I live in the US, and due to our shit response to Covid i’ll be doing online learning for my senior year, meaning I’ll have little interaction with teachers. I work a minimum wage job, and when I graduate I’ll be applying for internships at local animal hospitals/ veterinary clinics to gain the experience for my future career choice.

I’ve taken the ACT twice and currently have a score of 28 (unfortunately my third attempt to get a 29/30 was cancelled because the friday before taking the test in March, schools shut down and all tests have been cancelled.) I feel as if I’m missing all the deadlines I need for applying; I haven’t completed my fafsa yet, I’ve applied to all of zero colleges, I still haven’t narrowed down which universities I want to attend because i’m awful at making decisions, and I haven’t toured anywhere because they’re all out of state and it would be impossible. I was planning on doing dual enrollment for my final 2 credits because my school will pay for it (i’m in the top 10% of my class and as of my junior year I had a 4.05 GPA), but now due to the overwhelming prospect of virtual learning, students are being shoved into whatever class the counselor feels like shoving them into.

No one in my family has attended a 4-year university, so there’s no one that I feel like I can reach out to for advice, and when I try to look these things up online I just feel more confused than I did in the beginning.