Thank you for sharing your story. I’m happy to hear that your chosen school cares enough to allow you to take a year to seek treatment and regroup before kicking off your college experience.
Out of curiosity, was there any way to avoid the 50 absences having been labeled as unexcused? Wouldn’t a doctor’s note(s) take care of it if a parent phone call isn’t enough? Yes, 50 absences is huge, but they were medical ones, not truancy. Amherst might have specifically mentioned the Cs’s, but it seems to me that the unexcused absences may have been the “elephant in the room”. I’m glad it worked out for you, regardless.