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Throughout my junior and senior year of college, I had to deal with a family in chaos because my younger brother was dropping out of high school. When I would fly home, I could get him to go to school, and during the summer I could convince him to go to summer school, but it was apparent that the rents had lost efficacy in dealing with him.
I would like to mention this in my apps under whatever "explain poor grades" prompt I am given, because this caused me a great load of stress and even necessitated me flying home mid semester (twice) in an effort to help.
Here's the problem: Despite his troubles at the end of HS and beginning of college (which lead to him not ever technically graduating HS), he was always the brilliant one in the family. When he went to school, he killed it. Besides a couple dropped classes at the beginning of college when he was still having problems, he currently has a 4.0 in college and will most likely apply to every med school I apply to, just a couple years later. Do I risk throwing him under the bus by citing his problems? Indeed, he will also have to explain them when he applies to medical school, but I don't want to hurt his chances...
I would like to mention this in my apps under whatever "explain poor grades" prompt I am given, because this caused me a great load of stress and even necessitated me flying home mid semester (twice) in an effort to help.
Here's the problem: Despite his troubles at the end of HS and beginning of college (which lead to him not ever technically graduating HS), he was always the brilliant one in the family. When he went to school, he killed it. Besides a couple dropped classes at the beginning of college when he was still having problems, he currently has a 4.0 in college and will most likely apply to every med school I apply to, just a couple years later. Do I risk throwing him under the bus by citing his problems? Indeed, he will also have to explain them when he applies to medical school, but I don't want to hurt his chances...