dae what to do now

hi guys, im a poly dropout in like early 2022 due to family reasons and i took a gap year till 2023 dae but all polys i applied to rejected me even though i think my nett elr2b2 is not too bad at 16. so what do i do now? try to appeal to all the polys or do i enlist ns and try to dae later on or do i appeal into a ite? im really anxious now and really think i am a failure in life because i am not even considered for a school meanwhile my friends are all already progressing onwards 😭