Extenuating Circumstances-What Now?

<p>Hello,</p>

<p>I am unsure where to post this, but hopefully I can get some different perspectives.</p>

<p>Before I started my senior year, I was involved with a car accident and suffered from PTSD which made everything more difficult. I had mood swings, couldn't get out of bed some days, had bad anxiety which led to panic attacks. To top that all off, one of my close family friends was murdered and she was one of the few people who realized something was wrong with me mentally, it wasn't senioritis.</p>

<p>I underwent therapy and was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. I thought this was the end of my problems, and I went away to school at a top 20 university. I was suicidal, self-medicating, and was not functioning as a person, let alone as a student. This occurred over the course of a year and I was dropped from the university.</p>

<p>I took one year and continued with therapy and visiting a psychopharmacologist. I did well in my classes at a local community college, excelled at my part time job, and applied back to my former university. I was accepted and commenced classes during the summer. I aced those classes, but come the fall semester, I became horribly depressed again, couldn't get out of bed and wound up being dropped after the fall semester.</p>

<p>I returned back to my local community college, but I withdrew from my classes because I was just not not ready to be back in a classroom. After trying two more families of medications that did not work and only made my depression symptoms more severe, I was put on seroquel and lomictal, which are used in treating bipolar disorder.</p>

<p>These medications worked miraculously and my inability to focus, mood swings, and crippling depression vanished. It was determined that I was bipolar, not depressed and my medications were only making things worse. </p>

<p>I've just finished my summer session at my local community college with a 4.0 in both classes I took. I'm retaking the classes that I did not do well in, and am on the track for an honors designation in business and an A.S. in math. My goal is to have a 3.5 GPA after the fall semester, and a 3.9 by graduation. I hope that having one solid year under my belt will help me in the transfer process. I also have everything documented by both a psychopharmacologist and a therapist.</p>

<p>I also will be working part time, involved in debate team, economics club, and peer mentoring.</p>

<p>What type of school will I be able to transfer to?</p>

<p>TL; DR: I’m attempting to raise my GPA after extenuating circumstances prevented me from achieving high academically. How will this affect me in the transfer process? Where should I try applying? Will chance back</p>