<p>First off I hate to give excuses. I know there’s really no excuse for doing this poorly. But here it goes…</p>
<p>My grades began to drop first semester actually when I was having problems with my personal life. I barely made it to walk the stage. But I still managed to pull mostly A’s and B’s and maybe a C in 1 class. Second semester was an uphill battle. I missed alot of days of school. I was heavily investigated by the police for gang activitty and affiliation, even though I had none whatsoever. Everyday I had police knocking on my door for interviews and my phone was ringing off the hook. It was hard to fight my way out of it because I live in an environment filled with violence, poverty, and overall hopelessness. The police just didn’t believe a word that I said . It took a while, but eventually I was ruled out as a suspect for the crimes I was accused off. I have no documentation or recorded phone conversations, but I might be able to get a letter of apology from the police department to prove they wasted my time and harrassed the hell out of me for ***** I didn’t do. </p>
<p>At home, my family was struggling to make end’s meet. Nobody in my household is employed, and we live on public assistance. My father is constantly beating my mom and often times I have to protect her. At times, we couldn’t even afford bus fare for me to go to school. I go to school in another district to escape the negative aspects of inner-city life here. There were times when I had to walk an hour to get to school and an hour back. I try my best to get the best quality educaiton possible. What made things worse was one time I was arrested for “truancy” because a police saw me crossing the street to go to school and I was about 40 minutes late. Why can’t they be this strict with the potheads??? </p>
<p>Of the classes I got a D in, I only needed one of them (English 4) to fulfill the A-G requirement. I managed to make up one of my other D’s during summer school at a local community college with a B, and it’s actually harder than the one in HS. </p>
<p>I’d like to know who I should contact regarding this matter and I will take remedia classesl if I have to. I really need to go to college, I’m one of the few to make it out of this hood and I’m not going to quit now. </p>
<p>Wow, you’ve gone through a lot. Definately Call/E-mail/Write them to let them know, those are all VERY good reasons for low grades. Cya at Davis :)</p>
<p>From other treads, admissions has been pretty understanding for reasons a lot less profound than yours. I also suspect they may already know since the deadline for transcripts has already passed. They will also likely be happy that you have already retaken one of the classes and received a higher grade. I also think you personify the type of person that they want to encourage into a more productive environment (UCD) to help provide you with the educational skills to help you succeed in life. The bottomline…call them! If you email them, the emails may take a little longer for a response and you will likely want some feedback earlier rather than later.</p>
<p>One thing that may help is contacting your High School EAOP advisor, that is if your high school has one. From what I read above, comming from an inner city school, your high school may not have one. I take it you were admitted, another option if the former is not available is contacting UCD’s EOP office to see if they can help you out and try to advocate for you. If you were admitted to UCD by exception, that may help you out.</p>
<p>Right when I was going to contect them, I just checked my Ucdavis e-mail and got an e-mail stating I need to reply within 5 days with an explanation for the D’s. But the e-mail was postmarked July 25, 2006. and today is july 30th, will it be too late? I think I’ll e-mail them back and also call them tommorrow as well.</p>
<p>“You are required to submit a detailed, written explanation regarding your
D/F’s. Please submit this explanation by e-mail to <a href=“mailto:admproblems@ucdavis.edu”>admproblems@ucdavis.edu</a> or by fax to (530) 752-3712. Supporting documents should be included if appropriate.”</p>
<p>I’m worried about getting my admissions revoked. I can’t let that happen, I have too much at stake. Actually I haven’t even seen my transcript yet, probably due to the several address chages I’ve gone through these past few years</p>
<p>thanks for all the support and I wish you all well!!</p>