Here’s the dealio: I have suffered from increasingly debilitating mental health issues for nearly 10 years now. I graduated high school in 2014 with some rough grades, mostly Cs and a D-. Nonetheless I was accepted to my top two schools, one of which was JMU. I chose to attend the other college. Spent a year there but in the spring had a serious mental health crisis. My grades deteriorated and I was ultimately dismissed. Successfully appealed the decision on the ground of a documented health emergency, and returned a year later. I took community college classes in the interim and failed one, Bs in the others. My second year at the 4 year school was great, I did quite well. However, the school had changed and I did not feel that it was a good match anymore. By the time I decided to leave, I had missed the JMU fall transfer deadline so I ended up applying for spring. The decision was deferred to fall 2018 transfer on the ground that I had not yet successfully completed a science class. I took two science classes this term at community college, got an A in one, and a D in the other. I plan to appeal that grade but am not banking on it. I will retake the class this spring and the achieve a degree.
A side note, I wrote an essay for my application describing my experience of overcoming illness and self improvement, and so forth. Personally, I’m very proud of it and think it’s the best thing I’ve ever written. But I am also quite biased.
I fear that this D I received has extinguished my chances of being accepted. I will have about 60 credits from the community college as well as 30ish from the other school. My grades are mostly good, with 2 fails, two C- and a D now. My GPA has sunk to 2.98 and I am no longer on the Deans List, as I was before. Does anyone have any input on this? I will be applying to other schools, I’m not banking everything on JMU but I desperately want to attend this school.