Help with Appealing Academic Dismissal

1203southview
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 01:36:59 +0000

Ah, okay. I think your letter is a good start but you should try to take it in the direction of what your positive attributes are and what you bring to the school through your commitment to succeed with your newfound passion. You should explain what you will do differently in a concrete way (not just try harder, work harder) and you need to show a maturity and wisdom that will convince them. It is fine to leave in some mea culpa and taking ownership of your past failures. I would leave out the sentence about “mentally unstable”; I think it is likely inaccurate and is not what you mean and it does not represent you well (Going into my freshman year, I was already mentally unstable because I had been previously been rescinded by xxxxxxx due to poor grades in my senior year of high school.) I think you can leave in the part about being naive and arrogant and being humbled by the experiences of failure.

Move on from that to work on the positives as well. I hope it works out for you.