Mentioning ADD on my application?

ClaySoul
Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:45:14 +0000

Have your guidance counselor add a letter in your application saying that once you were diagnosed with ADD and got on medication, your grades skyrocketed to where they should have been all along. Kind of an explination for <3.00 performance prior. And ADD isn’t an excuse, it’s a viable reason for sub-potential performance.

I had some medical difficulties in my junior and senior year and grades / course load suffered. I had my guidance counselor write a letter explaining that. I have no idea if it made any difference, good or bad, on my application, but I know I would have felt uncomfortable not explaining the drop in my performance. Ultimately it’s up to you, but it sounds to me like you want your grades explained. This is how I would reccomend doing that.