<p>After I sent in all my college apps, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease.
One of the very first things the doctor asked me was if I had noticed a decline in my grades.
I started high school with straight A's and now, I have almost straight F's. I tried- I really tried. Apparently, the cause of my declining grades was due to my disease.
A week after I started taking medications for it, I went on to win 5 medals in an Academic decathlon competition- regardless of the fact that I didn't study for any of my events.
I'm also part of the National Honor Society, I've won countless engineering awards, I've won several ski competitions, I'm ranked in the top ten musicians in my county, I've taken over 20 credits worth of community college classes among nursing student, I've gotten straight A's in college, and I'm the director of a hospital volunteering chapter. </p>
<p>My GPA was a 3.4 unweighted and my SAT was a 1680 when I sent in my applications. </p>
<p>I feel like I do a lot more than a lot of high schoolers- I've even proven my success in college.
I even applied to backup schools- CSU's and UC Davis.
I didn't even get in to those. </p>
<p>Should I appeal? And what are my chances after appealing?</p>
<p>Yeah, you should definitely appeal.
The fact that you’re able to prevail is inspiring
Your chances depend on the schools you’re appealing to. It certainly varies. Not all schools accept appeals also. however, given your circumstances, those that don’t may be more lenient.</p>
<p>by all means, appeal. It sounds like you really got disadvantaged by your illness, and good for you for keeping up your effort anyway. But please do take this opportunity to consider community college. It’s really not so bad if you go to a decent one, and then you’ve got a really good at transferring into a top-notch UC if you live in California. If you have parents who will pay for everything out of pocket, great, but if you’re being asked to take out loans, do consider CC. This is really not the kind of market to rack up needless debt with ridiculous interest policies, on the basis of feeling too ashamed to go anywhere not within the top twenty. Just look at the housing crisis!</p>
<p>"Uh oh-One doesn’t get over an autoimmune disorder after few pills. You need to explain the problem and solution in cleaner detail. "</p>
<p>Well, if he means that the pill ameliorated they symptoms right away, I can believe it (depending on the specific disease). Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, for pain, and there are lots of immunosuppression drugs (prednisone, hydrocortisone, methotrexate, 5-aminosalicylic acid, cyclophosphamide, etc.). Some of these will knock out an autoimmune disorder right away, like cyclophospamide for vasculitis or Crohn’s disease.</p>
<p>A bunch of F grades in high school would make it hard sell to frosh admissions, particularly if the F grades cause you to not have enough a-g courses for UC and CSU. You can appeal, but do not expect much.</p>
<p>But if you already have 20 units of credit at CC, why not just continue at CC, take the needed courses to transfer to a UC or CSU (since those seem to be your target schools anyway) as a junior in your major (see [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) ) and then apply as a junior transfer student, when your high school record becomes irrelevant?</p>
<p>I don’t understand, your GPA and SAT look fine. Even if you aren’t doing so well this year, a CSU should have taken you.</p>
<p>I’m thinking maybe you did the applications wrong? Or didn’t send them in on time? Or maybe you didn’t have the a-g requirements, like ucbalumnus said.</p>
<p>You definitely should. After all, your grade decline had a legitimate reason that they should know about. Just write your schools some letters, telling them your situation and your current/past accomplishments that weren’t effected and see where that gets you. Good luck.</p>
<p>If you had the will to continue and gain an accomplishment (your 5 medals) then go for the appeal. You’ve written in this thread that despite your Auto immune disease, you’re still fighting to continue, and that determination should be a highlight in your appeals.</p>
<p>Sounds really crazy @lakemom, but I can guarantee it’s all true lol.
Also, my autoimmune disorder is Graves Disease since there seems to be a little bit of a dispute over that.</p>
<p>The line that yoskis quoted below - I remember reading that in your original post, and I couldn’t figure out what you meant. And now it seems to be gone.</p>
