I think it's great that you've had the guts to say no to something you don't enjoy.
I work for a grad school in Canada and I have a theory that's it's always more impressive on a school application or a scholarship application to be able to say you've passed through a hard time physically and emotionally. You don't need to say what it was precisely just that it was a serious illness but with hard work and doing a lot of research that you passed through it. One of our students was ill during her time as a undergrad. So her GPA slipped below the minimum cut off for the award. Fortunately we can make exceptions and she went on to win an award. Some of the other students with consistently above average GPA's didn't simply because there was nothing to distinguish them.
Also the two of our best students started there undergrads at local colleges. Yet their miles ahead of the others who spent all there time in one of the bigger schools.
Guess what I'm driving at that you don't have to do something just because it's expected of you. You don't need to go straight from high school to University. You don't need to construct your entire life around something that's in the future.
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