<p>i had a week GPA sophomore and junior year
during my sophomore year my grandfather passed away and my mother was at risk for a stroke so we spent a lot of time at the hospital
during my junior year first semester my family moved out of the city i was attending school, so i began commuting to school which strained my health and i ended up in the ER. Following that my father became ill so again we returned to the hospital.
after the move settled my grades began to rise again for second semester of my junior year.
will colleges take that into consideration when they see my transcript ?</p>
<p>I’m not an expert (I’m a rising senior) but I’m pretty sure they won’t know unless you say so in your essay. If this time was a life-changing experience that you can write about eloquently, consider using this in your essay. But, be careful. My English teachers always warn us about writing essays involving very heavy subject matter because oftentimes, teenage writers aren’t skilled enough at expressing their feelings and the essays come out trite and don’t actually convey the anguish they experienced. So if you do decide to use this for an essay, have some trusted yet qualified adults work with you to write about it.</p>
<p>You can have your guidance counselor address the personal issues that affected you, and you could also put it in the “additional information” yourself. You don’t need to make it the subject of your main essay.</p>
<p>is this something i should mention or have my counselor mention or will i be okay if i just omit it ?</p>
<p>I would recommend that you include it, and you can certainly talk to you guidance counselor to ask him / her to do it in their report. </p>
<p>The more information the schools can have to understand a student’s transcript, the better.</p>