<p>Bunny, you’re getting some good advice and some bad advice. You’re also getting some idiotic verbal abuse from people who should know better.</p>
<p>Here’s the truth. Being victimized is not being “antisocial.” Bullying is antisocial behavior. I suspect your social skills at that age were not very good or you wouldn’t have been picked as a target, but that’s not your fault. A number of things go into having poor social skills over which individuals have no control, whatsoever. A number of people on this thread are blaming the victim, and that ticks me off.</p>
<p>You won’t be “wasting an essay” by discussing this. Essays are about telling schools who you are, and this experience is obviously a part of you. I agree with those who tell you to use your essay to explain how you overcame all this and how it has made you stronger. What I DON’T agree with is all the posters who imply that what happened to you somehow cause for shame. SHAME ON THEM!!!</p>
<p>Tarhunt, I hope I’m not one of those posters. </p>
<p>Point is, I think what most of the posters are saying here is that she should tread carefully before deciding how much of her life she wants to reveal to these adcoms. I don’t think anyone here, or at least I’m not, is saying this is cause for shame…it’s just that the risk must be highly calculated. We haven’t gotten exact figures of the grades per se so thus exact advice can not be given. I would say it would be best for a rec to focus on something like this, other than an essay. You are right that an essay is supposed to showcase a part of yourself however, most people would focus on something positive or something that became positive and I’m not sure if bunny is over this to the point to write a good essay about how she overcame it. Most importantly…she won’t get the college admission if she doesn’t have the goods in some part of the app. Honestly, I would say the best course of action would be to give a brief synopsis of your stats OR speak to your gc about incorporating this in her letter of rec, which she should already do considering the OP had to skip school or something to the effect of that.</p>
<p>my grades weren’t THAT bad, probably like a low to mid B average for those years (9&10 grade), so it wasn’t terrible just could’ve been better (i pulled an A- for last year and hopefully for 1st semester senior year). i didn’t really skip long periods “or chunks” of school, it was more like i was absent more frequently then i should’ve been. i think what i might end up doing is just mentioning it briefly in one of the shorter essays and not making too big a thing of it.</p>
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