u/Sorry_Importance_588

I’m a sophomore 3.7 non target t50 school with decent experience more in school extracurriculars and political internships.
I applied to mck with a referral from someone pretty new I think they’re an associate, and to Bain without a referral and didn’t feel good at all about either assessment, felt reallyyy bad about McKinsey solve ik I messed that up. I did not get r1 invites to either firm.
I managed to get a partner referral to bcg and put their office as my number one choice which I’m not sure if that matters or not I just didn’t want to take any chances. I also felt decent about the assessment that goes out to all applicants right after you submit.
Just wanted to get thoughts on what my chances look like, because not getting r1 from either of the first two was really discouraging and now I’m just thinking really hard about bcg is my last shot at mbb.
Also Is there anything I could do in the next month to increase my chances like reach out to more people at that office for coffee chats or something?

In high school I was valedictorian and had a perfect GPA and compared to my siblings who weren’t as academically driven my parents always put basically all of their aspirations onto me. I got into ivies and another t50 school on a full ride where I now attend. I never wanted to be a doctor like my parents would’ve wanted, so they always took comfort in thinking I would go to an ivy law school or something but I’ve never been super sure about being a lawyer.

Here’s the situation: I basically hella overcommitted myself for extracurriculars and became in charge of multiple high commitment clubs as a sophomore. I also was going through a lot socially and mentally and it just was not a great year for me. I just finished sophomore spring with a 3.0 semester gpa, bringing my overall down to a 3.5.

I have been home for a few days and can’t bring myself to have a conversation with my parents about anything because the guilt is eating me alive. I’m telling myself I’m going to wait until recruiting and job searching is over so that I at least have some kind of plan when I tell them how bad my gpa dropped. I’m so upset that this is going to close doors for me and rule out grad school in the future. I’m just at a loss and don’t know what to do here. Any advice?