<p>I am a freshman in college now, I would like to transfer. I didn't do that well in HS but I manage to get my IB diploma. My SAT's were bad. MY college GPA is 3.8. I moved alone to another country for 11th and 12th grade. My father died two years after I met him and I went abroad the following year. Before I left home, my dad's brother died too. So I didn't even recover from my dady's death that I lost another relative. In addition to cultural adjusment and Language problems, can I explain their death as a reason of my poor perfomance? I always tried to keep my emotion so I don't the college to think that I was so weak I couldn't even cope with the events.</p>