Starting 10th grade, a student at my school that had mild autism started to become obsessed with ruining my life. He was sending death threats, showing up to my house, hacking my friend’s social media so I couldn’t block him, and even tried to sexually assault my girlfriend. The school did very little to help (suspension for 1 day) so I had to cooperate with city police and go to several court cases for restraining orders. I could no longer attend school, affecting my grades until I switched to charter. I was still settling the restraining order until the middle of Junior year, so I was still not where I wanted to be academically. Before senior year started, I heard that the police investigated his house and that he had criminal charges. He no longer went to my previous High School so I was able to return and excel in my classes without any stress. How can I explain to colleges that my potential is a lot higher than what was shown in my 10/11th grade?
It’s a heck of an essay topic…
I can never edit on this site. A more complete answer might be make it part of your interviews and essays. Maybe not as a central theme, but find a way to ensure that schools aren’t just using test scores and grades to measure you. Your GC might be able to include some of that history in a letter as well. But the unfortunate fact is you did have a chunk of your high school experience taken from you and there is a real hole there. You may never know what you could have done with a smooth runway, you can only make the best of what’s in front of you and hope to find a school that’ll give you the benefit of the doubt based on how you overcome this. Best of luck this year.
Your guidance counselor should include this background in their recommendation letter.
Also I would not suggest applying ED/EA…do well in your first semester senior year classes and show you can do the work. Apply RD.
not only essay topic but a book could be written with screen rights sold to hollywood