<p>Basically, my parents can barely speak English and their bank was threatening to sue them. I ended up spending a lot of my time trying to stave off a lawsuit and I fell behind in school. Do you think that this is worth mentioning?</p>
<p>It’s worth mentioning.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response. How do you think I should go about mentioning this? Should I give them details, or should it be a quick summary?</p>
<p>it could be an entire essay. You probably did a lot of research into the legal process, laws, etc. </p>
<p>As an essay, this would show me a few major things about you:
-you either love your parents a ton or really enjoy the field of law (or both- even better).
-you sacrifice grades and other trivial details for family and/or passions
-you’re smart enough to take on a bank
-etc.</p>
<p>Thank you so much senior. I’m hoping the admissions committee will see it that way as well =)</p>
<p>Really now, 124 looks and no further responses.
Guys, please help me out. The more imput the better.</p>
<p>It should definitely be mentioned. Whether you should talk about this in your essays or whether you should just ask your guidance counselor to mention it depends on what specifically you did. As Senior0991 said, it can potentially be a great essay topic. But what did you do / how significantly did you contribute? Did you actually fight the lawsuit yourself or did you just act as a mouth for your parents?</p>
<p>I ended up digging through all of my parents’ forms for any shred of proof on their end, looking through the policies of that bank and trying to see if there was anything that would make their potential lawsuit invalid, locating everyone involved so that they could verify all the information that my parents presented, researching the company to see if they had a history of screwing people over, (Apparently my parents were not the only ones with this problem.) and checking out where to file complaints to and how to proceed if this bank actually tried to sue. </p>
<p>Luckily, I was finally able to locate someone who had the authority to confirm what my parents had said, and when I brought up the particulars of my parents’ case, she was willing to talk to a representative and confirm that my parents were in the right.</p>
<p>Sorry for the length-but…do you guys think this is more GC worthy or essay worthy? And thank you very much for your input feuxfollets =)</p>
<p>It’s really up to you. What would seal the deal is if you enjoyed all your research, learned something, and/or if you can see yourself in a law career or something. </p>
<p>At the least I’d try it out. The worst essay is that which is never written.</p>
<p>Thanks again for your input Senior. I think if there’s a supplemental essay that’s where I’ll put it cuz I really like my main essay so far, and unfortunately, I can’t say I enjoyed the research much X.X. Wish I did…</p>
<p>The thing is though, I’m kind of iffy about going into detail. See, the problem between my parents and my bank was one that dealt with loans, and seeing as I plan on applying for many of them, I’m slightly worried that the colleges will dig deeper and check up on my parents’ credit grade or something and decide not to give me the loan.</p>
<p>Is that possible? I mean, for them to look at my parents’ credit history, or to think that because of this problem, it would be risky for them to give me a loan?</p>
<p>Oh, and also;</p>
<p>These bad grades were in the first quarter of my senior year. If I get good 2nd quarter grades, how much would it help?</p>
<p>Colleges don’t give loans. Banks give loans and they don’t see your essays. Don’t worry about that. Getting good second quarter grades (proving that your involvement in the research for the lawsuit) would be excellent.</p>
<p>Thanks for clearing that up Erin’s Dad =)</p>
<p>It would be good, but that’s irrelevant; if it’s the reason behind your grades, then you should put it in there. It’s impressive that you handled the situation by yourself, so work that into your application. Good luck!</p>