Berkeley Appeals Letter - SOB story??

Warrior2005
Sat, 10 May 2008 20:26:04 +0000

Just based on the general feeling of the essay (the “sob story”), I am going to say that it IS very touching and it’s something that appeals to me, but I don’t think that it’s something that admission officers are looking for. While it sounds amazing to live someone else’s dream for them, it just doesn’t seem like a strong enough reason to let you go to their school… I hope that makes sense.

Anyways, I have a question for myself, as I will be trying to appeal to Berkeley…

My appeal for Berkeley is based on health reasons, because all my doctors/specialists are in the Bay Area (where I’m from). However, I am scared that this will sound like too much of a sob story… I’m sick blah blah so I want to be close to my health care. While I THINK it sounds like a legitimate reason, I don’t want to give the school a concern that I’d be missing a lot of school/performing poorly in classes due to illness. Am I going down the right path, as of now, by using health reasons as my reason for appeal? I don’t really have any “new information” to present to them, and I did not mention my own health issues in my original application because I don’t usually like telling people about it and I don’t like to take advantage of it… thanks!