Lame Excuse or Viable Reason?

novafan1225
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 05:13:54 +0000

I wouldn’t mention it on the common app supplement. Perhaps if your GC is aware of the situation and believes that it’s relevant, she/he could write a note, but I wouldn’t write it yourself. The explanation, frankly, almost makes it worse. “I thought it was going to be easy enough to slack off, then I couldn’t properly prioritize my tasks because I was afraid of my boss, so I missed my online final and almost failed.” It doesn’t seem like it has anything to do with the stress of working, just the fact that you spent all year goofing off under the assumption it would all be okay in the end, and then it wasn’t. It makes you sound incredibly unprepared for college, where you’ll have classes- some online, some in large lecture halls- where attendance isn’t taken nor do you get “pay attention!” remarks and you’re still expected to not fail, on top of part-time jobs, internships, clubs and organizations, etc.

Honestly, it could make an interesting “failure” common app essay.