LD and Instate Admissions

aigiqinf
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:56:31 +0000

Thanks for the response! I was really helpful.



[Colleges] do not like taking a risk on a child it does not seem will be likely to succeed because of an LD, which using yours as an excuse for every bad grade might do.



For the bad grades I made, 3 were due to the same issue with the immense quantity of work in online AP classes. The other 2 (Calc II and Chem II) occurred suddenly at the end of the semester, which I think was due to the adjustment of my medicine, and which led to less significant drops in other classes.



Try to find a positive way to spin your ADHD, and it could help you in the process.



I’m honestly still working out life with ADHD, but I’m hoping that my few decent AP scores, future ACT scores (hoped to exceed the 75th percentile mark at Carolina), and a strong performance this coming semester might provide some creditability to my ability to be successful at UNC.

When I was younger, I could never understand why other people didn’t do as well in classes as me. I thought that were all stupid, but ADHD has really helped me identify with and understand the challenges that each person has. I hope I can explain what I’ve learned and the experience of having ADHD.