Letter of Explanation for Bad Grades

younghoss
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:13:40 +0000

I certainly hope scatj has learned some lessons here. Volunteering info on a forum board about an F wasn’t the smartest. Not knowing if a quarter’s grades will show up isn’t the best either. Perhaps that grade won’t even show up, and you have opened this can of worms for no good reason! Checking for accuracy with your school should have been step 1. Was this their error, as you tell us? Then have them correct it. If the grade didn’t change, then seeing if it would be reported should have been step 2. If it isn’t reported separately, but is just averaged in, then this problem is over. I’d say step 3 would be preparing a careful, honest, explanation to the prospective college so that IF they require an explanation then you are ready to provide one. Did your “senioritis” affect only that one class? If so, then your explanation of senioritis is a little less believable.
Add that to your explanation which I am, let’s say, skeptical if it is the whole truth, and ask yourself- do I expect my explanation to fully satisfy the admissions people, or just “raises more questions than it provides answers” as ellenmope so politely says.