<p>How much does it help if a guidance conselor writes a letter explaining your GPA? If one has lived through VERY bad circumstances, such as living through child abuse for a decade, having a fatally ill father, and a mother suffering from a mental illness who has been through a pyschiatric ward twice, and maybe going on her third, plus having restrictions on the amount of time given for school work on the computer, do you think colleges should see a letter from guidance counselor about this? Thanks.</p>
<p>I would definitely send one and Im sorry you had to go through that.</p>
<p>Yeah, or add some information in the “Additional Info” part of the Common App. It’s definitely something worth explaining. Sorry again about what you’ve been through.</p>
<p>Also try writing about it in your essay. Just make sure if you and/or your counselor talk about it, make sure it doesn’t sound like whining or complaining.</p>
<p>thanks for all the support everyone, but do you think that colleges will understand enough, as in the top schools?</p>