<p>So what should I do then?...just not mention it at all?</p>
<p>Have your counselor mention it and whatever you do, do not mention depression!</p>
<p>my counselor is mentioning it because my mom , me and her mad a meeting about my grades during the time they went down ....there is no way that I can make this look positive because the fact is my grades did go down that year.....but they did go up junior year.....my senior grades are going to be very important from what i have been told......but i will mention why i think they went down and how i recovered and so on</p>
<p>qrd567, we are on the same boat.</p>
<p>I can't decide whehter to mention it in my essay or not... but for me I have an almost ONE point GPA drop...</p>
<p>There really is no excuse for me... I just don't know what happened, but my drop is so huge and critical that i really think it should be addressed. So far, I have no clue on what to do.</p>
<p>Unless it caused you to suffer from serious depression, I wouldn't mention it. Maybe your counseler or teacher recs should mention it. Anyway, everyone suffers from unpleasant personal **** at some point in high school. You're not that different from anyone else in that regard.</p>
<p>It's not a good essay topic if that's what you were thinking about.</p>
<p>i wouldnt mention it because if losing ONE friend in high school brought u doen that much, then what will they think will happen when u go to college and lose ALL your friends. also you dont want them to think you're mentally ill. Im a junior and my best friend since 2nd grade died 2 years ago and my grades stayed exactly the same...so its a pretty excuse imo</p>
<p>There's no way to hide the drop in grades so I say give them the honest explanation. It was a difficult time for you, but you grew stronger from it. I'm not sure I would go into a whole thing about "depression." If you don't mention it at all you'll just look lazy and that's worse. This is tricky - don't make an excuse, but do give a reason.</p>
<p>yea i sent the app in already with my explanation....</p>
<p>I just said that year was very hard for me...blah blah blah, that no one was to blame but myself and that that year was not a true indicator of my potentional..</p>
<p>O yea....my counselor mention this in my recommendation also....i dont know what shesaid...but she said she was going to talk about it....she knows that year was hard for me</p>
<p>"I just said that year was very hard for me...blah blah blah, that no one was to blame but myself and that that year was not a true indicator of my potentional.."</p>
<p>Sounds like you handled it well!</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for all the advice because i think I would have put down something really stupid if I hadn't started this thread</p>