<p>Yep. I received 2 Cs for the previous term (Both AP classes btw). However, this resulted moslty due to my job suddenly increasing my work hours from 13 to 25 a week for the holiday season, plus the fact that I had to prepare for the All-State Choir competition.</p>
<p>I already asked my counselor to mention this in the midyear report. Is there anything else I can do to explain to Columbia that those C's weren't a result of pure lazyness?</p>
<p>Maybe I'm overeacting. Thanx for the help in advance guys.</p>
<p>What's to explain? Everyone has time-consuming ECs and plenty have other responsibilities such as working, babysitting siblings, etc. If you couldn't handle all of this, you should have cut back on your job, dropped out of choir, take easier classes, etc. Nothing your counselor says is going to help -- no point in calling negative attention to the bad. Let the rest of your app overshadow this. But, I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that this is a lethal blow to your application.</p>
<p>I agree with columbia 2002 that you shouldn't be drawing too much attention to the two Cs. first of all using EC as excuses usually won't do you any good, and secondly if the adcom were able to overlook the 2Cs, drawing attention to them makes you appear as someone who can't handle anything below an A, and that also doesn't do you any good. having the councelor touch briefly on it is enough. there's not much you can do to make them forget about the Cs, if they notice them.</p>