How to explain a grade rise?

zsg
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:52:19 +0000

I’m Canadian so my school doesn’t give GPAs, so I probably messed up the first GPA thing… but my freshman + sophmore average is 79.9%, which isn’t an accomplishment at all. On the other hand, right now I am getting above 90% in all but one of my courses, and taking a heavy courseload (one grade 11 course, four grade 12 courses, 2 APs).

The thing is, I was pretty much a slacker in my first two years. I had difficulty getting assignments done and performing basic calculations, and I would space out and “lose” hours of time. When I started taking the medication, the effects were huge… first term marks of 67% and 70% became 93% and 90% second term, which is weighted a lot heavier than first term. I’m afraid that if I don’t disclose my LD, it’ll still be clear that something weird is going on from my transcript.

Thanks for the advice. All of you have been very encouraging!