Explaining College Hiatus to Competitive Transfer Admissions

Tgerney
Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:54:21 +0000

I’m applying to selective colleges and am worried about how education gaps and dropped classes will look on paper. I’m an upcoming transfer student from CC and will have completed 60 credits with a 3.9 GPA by spring.

The gaps:

I attended but dropped my first cc semester In fall 2018. I took an extended break until spring 2019 where I took two classes but dropped them as well and took another break until spring 2020. I finished a full load in the spring but then Covid happened and I took another break until fall 2021. Since then I have done continuous semesters.

I have reasons why I took the breaks and things I did during them which I won’t write right now, but there’s extremely limited room to explain them in the essays. Is it something I should be worried about and is it worth mentioning in my essays? If so how do I go about it?