In short: I’ve been notified by my university that I’m going to lose my scholarship and I’m conflicted about what to do next.
In long: I was accepted into my current university with a 2.81 GPA and 28 ACT score (I did not take the SAT). I was given a fairly nice scholarship, too!
My first semester went well and I ended with a 3.25 or so. This was the highest my GPA had been since my sophomore year of high school, and I was very happy with it! Dealing with ADHD, depression, and anxiety makes keeping grades up a crapshoot and I was more than happy with a B+ average.
My second semester…not so much. In general my family went through a lot of medical trouble as well as familial turmoil which left me stressed out and reluctant to do coursework. I had also been experiencing severe fatigue (sleeping 10+ hours a day plus naps) and was diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome), a condition that is very common in my family but leaves me with more fatigue and feelings of hopelessness than I already had.
To make matters worse, I took an online music course with the thought that it would be an easy A. I ended up barely passing with a D+/C-, and in retrospect I 100% should have dropped it once I realized I wouldn’t be able to get my grade any higher. Unfortunately I did not make this decision, and as a result my GPA dropped down to 2.69. (I had been in other classes where I received better grades, but they were nowhere near high enough to counter the blow from this one class.)
The minimum GPA requirement for my scholarship is 2.75, I’m now left at .06 points below the requirement.
At the beginning of this summer semester, I had not paid too much attention to my GPA (being happy enough with passing) and was terrified when I received an e-mail from my university saying that my scholarship would not be renewed for reasons already discussed, giving me the option to send in an appeal. I had already planned on taking one or two online classes just to get more general credits required for graduation, but now they’re going to decide my scholarship.
Fast forward to now, and I have a B/B- in one class and am currently not even passing the second, for which there is currently a final assignment worth a third of my grade due tomorrow night. However, even if I receive full points on this paper, my GPA can only go down.
As if all of this wasn’t bad enough, I have been postponing showing my mother my grades (and believe me, she’s been nagging me to show them since April) knowing that I would probably not have a high enough GPA to satisfy her, and now I am probably going to have to tell her I lost my scholarship.
So far I can see a few options:
- I drop the second class with a lower grade and send in an appeal to the scholarship committee. I already have a letter from my therapist documenting mental illness from last semester as well as medical records showing my PCOS diagnosis.
- I keep both classes regardless and send in the appeal.
- Either class combination of the above, but rather than try to appeal my scholarship I pull out of college and take a gap period/find work/enroll elsewhere/whatever.
Thoughts? Advice?