<p>Waiver Review Committee
Center for Counseling and Transfer
January 10, 2014</p>
<p>To Whom It May Concern:
Hello, my name is XXX and I am a first year transfer student at Hudson Valley Community College. I am writing this letter in hopes that my academic suspension for not maintaining satisfactory progress is reconsidered and I’m granted the one time academic waiver. I have just finished my first semester at HVCC and it hasn’t been an easy semester at all, one of the hardest by far but things have been put into place now.
Over the course of two years my life has been unstable and therefore those troubles transfer into my academic life. My parents were never able to afford me going to school relying completely on financial aid and my future was very dim because of that.
I attended Medgar Evers College for the fall 2013 semester and things began to look up but when my parents couldn’t afford the spring semester causing me to having to withdrawal from my classes I felt like I was at square one once again. I applied to Hudson Valley and I ended up getting accepted which was great because this time I was able to get financial aid. Motivated and excited to start a new chapter in my life I was excited to be attending the school and me also planned to participate in athletics at the school, I felt purpose and I finally felt as if my life had a sense of direction once again. I loved my classes and I was excited to start the semester, I even introduced myself to my teachers before the semester even began.</p>
<p>As the semester began I had a problem with finding a place to stay and knowing if my parents would even being able to afford it. I ended up moving up early in order to attend the football camp for the school and a teammate decided to add me onto his lease so it would be him, his roommate and I in a 2 bedroom apartment and I would have to sleep in the living room. Even though my parents had to take out a loan to pay the security deposit I felt so relieved and happy, but with one problem solved came another, My father ended up losing his job and I was told that being that I withdrew from courses at Medgar Evers I wasn’t able to play football and my mother was having complications from her surgery she had a year ago, doctors performed an endovascular aneurysm coiling procedure, she eventually had to be put on medication. So with all those things going on, not only was it hard to be motivated but it became a whole lot easier to be discouraged.</p>
<p>As the semester dwindled down things began to get dark once again, being that my dad lost his job it became hard to pay the rent on time and my family began to question where they would get the money from for me to be able to still attend this school, the first time my father told me that he lost his job I applied to work study , but i never received a call back because im assuming there were not many jobs left and the refund money that I received helped to an extent, it was used to pay off loans that he took out, pay some of my college tuition and pay some of the rent but it just wasn’t enough. It now became harder to finish the semester as strong I possibly could and know im capable of doing.</p>