What is my best option? Unfortunately my illness significantly affects my academic performance as cognitive functioning is affected negatively. What can Princeton offer to severely mentally ill people or am I aiming too high? Am I able to get into Princeton as a graduate student instead? I only missed about two years worth of high school because of hospitalisation however whenever I returned to school during that period, I still performed well. I function well now, but before I was ill, I was in the top five of my freshman year in high school. It’s just because of this illness I didn’t have a chance to prove myself. How should I go about this?