@slights32 Again, my GC just doesn’t have the time. I’m one of 450+ kids she has to deal with, and many have far bigger academic/college problems than I do.
@hopefulperson I mean technically she is your GC and should make time. If you wait for her for awhile eventually she’ll talk to you. I looked over your other threads… 2350 SAT with a 4.0 UW? You’ll definitely be okay without disclosing, but I’d really talk to your GC about this. I don’t really know how colleges would look at it.
@slights32 I’m confident about my academic stats, but I’m worried about my ECs since those will get me over the hump (or not) and since my main EC is more physically oriented it was directly affected by my health issues. Idk, I’ll talk to my teacher who’s very experienced with getting kids into college and see what she says. Thanks for the advice!
Personally, I feel like talking about health issues, or any sort of adversities like that, doesn’t really help with admissions. There are thousands of kids applying to college every year. And of those thousands, hundreds can have health problems, or everyday daily struggles. Adcoms would much rather you talk about how you were able to overcome those struggles and create something good, rather than say these held me back that’s why I haven’t performed well. I can write a whole book of how I have had to take care of my disabled father(brain tumor surgery left him unable to walk/paralyzed) since 10 y/o, and how I have the same tumor that put my father in a wheelchair, but I don’t think those things define me as a person. Everyone has had obstacles in their lives, most likely including adcoms. Yes your illnesses are apart of who you are, but sometimes they may not necessarily make you special in the eyes of adcoms who see this in every other essay they read. Just think about if your ‘sob story’ really has weight in who you are as a hopeful admit. Think of yourself as the admissions officer, and ask yourself do you really deserve to get in based on the backstory…