<p>I would get someone from OP’s high school to substantiate his story - GC or his teacher.</p>
<p>I simply meant that while he might run into an adcom that might think like you do, as an overall group that has a lot of experience seeing all kinds of situations they will use that experience to judge this student, more than anything personal they might have experienced. Especially since a majority probably never had a similar experience, I wouldn’t think. That is one reason, besides the fact that you didn’t relate your first post to “how an ad com might think”, that your personal experience and how you and your D handled it is completely irrelevant, and to me sounded quite insensitive. I stand by how I think it came across.</p>
<p>I think there is a joke about how many times grandparents die during the final exam period. I am sure those experienced adcoms see/read more sob stories than most of us. As this thread is ALL about what adcoms may think of OP’s reason for getting an F, I didn’t think I needed to relate my stories back to “how an ad com might think.” All of these yada yada is about justifying the original name calling post. Not sure why you think you are in the position to decide whether my post is relevant or not. </p>
<p>@oldfort @fallenchemist Can you guys wrap it up? Kids hate when parents fight. 
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I am telling you my opinion, of course. Just as, by that reasoning, you are not in a position to decide that my posts are “wrong”. And IMO, yes you should have related it back to how an ad com might think instead of assuming that it was obvious (it wasn’t). As written, I still maintain it came across as a negative take on the OP’s ability and an insensitive comparison to you and your D personally. Sorry you cannot see that. And I never once called you a name. If you don’t know the difference between giving an opinion of one post as compared to name calling, then I don’t know what to tell you.</p>
<p>For someone that was not going to continue the banter, you are keeping it going pretty well! :)</p>
<p>Yes, you (skleurope) are right. Skip over the fighting part and get what you can out of my posts.</p>
<p>Agreed.</p>