People with great test scores and low grades have generally not been applying themselves as much as your future college studies will demand. The good news? you have a whole year to mature and try to change whatever bad habits (like not writing stuff down, or losing everything, or blaming the teacher when you didn’t do an assignment (because it was a stupid assignment anyway, right?) might be holding you back

Opposite problem of students with high GPA but low test scores may be either 1, poor test takers (these can improve a lot with one of the prep courses) 2, overachiever types who do every assignment perfectly and get 100s on all projects, even though they didn’t really master the material very well, or 3, people who avoid the hard classes like Honors or AP so they can get straight A’s

What you will find in college is that most students need to improve their study techniques, and the more motivated they are to do what it takes the better they will do in the more “mature” environment of college. Colleges are trying their best to make an educated guess on which students are likely to succeed based on the info they can get their hands on. They don’t kow everything.

If you have overcome ADD and LD problems in the past then you can use what you have learned about yourself to try your best to maximize your chances of success. College is not really all about “getting in,” it’s more about getting out, with a degree that is in a field where you want to work or study further.

You might be able to play up your disability to schools that take them into consideration, maybe like private schools. But ADD is so common that you might not get any advantage in talking about ADD.

Overall, I think this means that you have what it takes intellectually to handle the work in college, but will you have the time management skills and the emotional ability to handle school stress?