First, I would like to thank you for your additional time and further consideration of my application to San Diego State University. Please reconsider the decision to deny my application to be a component of the Business program at SDSU.
Cooper from admissions informed me that my relatively low 2.66 GPA was the reason I was denied admission to SDSU. When I indited my application, I felt it was dispensable to include the reasons for my low GPA during the period of 2007 to 2011. However, I now realize that in order to authentically understand me as an applicant, one must understand the extenuating circumstances circumventing the numbers on my application.
In 2007, I was a seventeen-year-old college student with no guidance. During this time my mother’s alcoholism reached an all-time high and I turned to Southwestern College for refuge. I used school as an escape from my toxic home environment. I was not as committed to my classes, as much as I was committed to liberating myself from my mother’s battle with alcohol. As her condition worsened, so did my academic production. My Southwestern College GPA stands at .50, with three units completed and ten units attempted.
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I enrolled in the University of Phoenix, optimistic that I would be able to balance my duty to my country and my duty to my academics. I learned expeditiously that my obligation to my country came first. I was undergoing lots of training and deployments; the timing for school just wasn’t there. I had to make a choice, abandon my obligation to my country or my obligation to my education. I opted to abandon my education, which caused my academic production to drop. My University of Phoenix GPA stands at .00, with zero units completed and six units