<p>Can I use the additional comments section to be a continuation section for my Personal paper prompt #1. Because I have 1200 words alone on prompt number one. I really wanted to tell them my storyyy.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help!!</p>
<p>Happy Thanksgiving!</p>
<p>That’s a horrible idea. 1200 words is incredibly large for a UC application. I suggest you chop it down a little bit. But a friend of mine did write her personal statement in the additional comment area. She did get accepted. The school was UCLA. </p>
<p>Best of Luck :)</p>
<p>Also, on the right-hand side of the “Additional Comments” page, one of the FAQs’ answers is that the AC section shouldn’t be used as a continuation of Personal Statements 1 or 2.</p>
<p>Hey would this work for my additional comments for UC apps.
My reason may seem corny and trivial, but it really did affect me.
And as for my grades from 10th-11th grade…let’s just say that my 11th grade weighted GPA decreased by .5 as compared to 10th grade :/…</p>
<p>Anyways:</p>
<p>During December of my Junior year my Maltese dog that has been a part of my family for 5 years, passed away in an accident before my eyes. Normally, I am one who gets attached to things easily, so the death of my dog was not an easy thing to let go of. The challenging courses that I enrolled in during junior year needed more focus and energy from me, but I lacked to find motivation after the incident. My mind would always wander in negative thoughts. </p>
<p>Furthermore, my sister was working on her college applications at this point, so my parents shifted most of their attention towards my sister. I couldn’t get the educational assistance I needed at times. A lot of stress was compiling in my family. Our whole family was having heated arguments with one another during this time, and there would be fighting and shouting everyday. Consequently, this only snowballed all the negative emotions and I didn’t know how to deal with all these things. Thus, this resulted in the fluctuation of my grades in my junior year.</p>
<p>In my opinion, additional comments should be used for “comments.” Your reasoning behind your GPA fluctuation is much like an essay of some sorts…Not only is it unnecessarily long, but it seems like an excuse fished out to justify your GPA. For instance, you don’t get to the point until the last sentence about why you were typing up all this stuff. You talk about stress and then you go like “oh this ruined my GPA.”</p>
<p>No offense to you; I’m sure this stuff actually happened, but it’s just that it seems very likely that adcoms will look at these like excuses.</p>
<p>To be honest with you, I don’t think it’s the correct spot for that. Not to sound mean, I think alot of people put stuff like that in that spot, so i don’t think they treat those excuses as anything. Some people even lie about their dog dieing to touch their emotional side, not that you’re doing it though. </p>
<p>I think its more of a spot to say that you were unable to put in your SSID # since you kept getting an error message and you want to mention your # it in there, or how it wouldn’t let you input your algebra class and the grade you got for some reason.</p>
<p>I really doubt they want to hear everyone’s troubles, heck i’ve got some too, we all have them. What if someone’s father died, then that get’s placed above your dog dieing right? Now it just turned into a rank game of who has the worst story and why it impacted their grade. </p>
<p>-I’m just being honest with you, and i didn’t sugar coat my answer like other people to tell you what you want to hear.</p>
<p>Alright. Thanks for the info guys. Haha saved my a** LOL</p>