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submit an addendum?

Post by threebirds » Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:02 pm

In my first year at university I got a 3.28 GPA.

In my second year, i was diagnosed with depression and began to start medication. since then, my GPA increased to 3.67 in my second year, 3.8 in my third, and (hopefully!) a 4.0 in my fourth (which I'm currently in).

Should I submit an addendum to account for my grades in first year?

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Re: submit an addendum?

Post by Clearly » Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:18 pm

Depends on what your final GPA is. As much as some adcomms, and I, certainly empathize with the situation, law school can be really stressful and a lot of adcomms would wonder if you could thrive in that environment. If your final GPA is solid I wouldn't take the chance, if you end up with pretty rough overall GPA I prob would so as to draw attention to the upward trend with treatment.

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Re: submit an addendum?

Post by Rigo » Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:20 pm

I wouldn't. It's pretty common to have your freshman year be your worst (3.28 isn't even that bad) and there's unfortunately a stigma with depression that is probably better avoided than unnecessarily addressed.

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Re: submit an addendum?

Post by iamapipersson » Sun Dec 13, 2015 10:23 pm

threebirds wrote:In my first year at university I got a 3.28 GPA.

In my second year, i was diagnosed with depression and began to start medication. since then, my GPA increased to 3.67 in my second year, 3.8 in my third, and (hopefully!) a 4.0 in my fourth (which I'm currently in).

Should I submit an addendum to account for my grades in first year?
If you want to give adcomms an excuse not to let you in, then by all means.
Rigo wrote:I wouldn't. It's pretty common to have your freshman year be your worst (3.28 isn't even that bad)
Yes it is, T14 gunner.

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Re: submit an addendum?

Post by Rigo » Sun Dec 13, 2015 10:27 pm

iamapipersson wrote:
Rigo wrote:I wouldn't. It's pretty common to have your freshman year be your worst (3.28 isn't even that bad)
Yes it is, T14 gunner.
Not catastrophic where adcoms would be like "wow wtf happened" is what I mean to say.

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