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My Chronic Illness Affected My Midyear Grades, what do I do?

Hi, I am a senior applying to college and throughout my high school career until my most recent quarter, I’ve had a 3.98 UW gpa. In September, I was diagnosed with a chronic health condition, and ended up getting hospitalized twice for it, and spent 3 months bouncing around treatment plans making my health worse and worse. As a result, my grades in my 2 hardest classes, AP Physics C and AP Lit, dropped from A’s to mid Bs (86 and 85 respectively) in my second quarter (first quarter they were both 94s). I explained this situation in Full detail in my additional info and for context I am taking 6 APs along with Calc 3 this year, trying to max my rigor. With my senior year courses, I have taken about 19 AP courses total. I am also an engineering major. My questions is assuming I explained this situation well and my chronic illness, will there be little to no effect on my apps or will there be a significant negative effect? I’ve put in so much effort to maintaining my grades and I don’t want my hard work to go down the drain because of a low point in my life. My GPA now is a 3.944, so its only a 0.04 drop and my rank is the same (35/802). Now I am much healthier and my grades are doing much better. Also, I was recently deferred from Georgia Tech, and I know they value grades a lot, so how much would this affect my chances there?

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