how to talk about my GPA trend?

[hopefulldr]

so essentially my sophomore year my grades started falling- I had some personal issues going on but i know that adcoms doesn't like it when you talk about depression. Another thing that was going on was an undiagnosed learning disability---> Essentially i went from 20 ppl classes in HS to being homeschooled my freshman year bc of COVID to 300-level classes.

I noticed that I was doing better in my more challenging honors classes (that had a smaller class size)
And that I did better in summer classes that were “harder” bc they were more compact (but smaller) but worse in large 200+ sections where you had a whole semester to learn the material
Felt stupid bc it seemed that where my classmates were thriving I was falling behind.

Is that enough to explain my trend? Once i got my disability accommodations and the proper medications/therapy my grades shot back up. I graduated last fall so hopefully, my last 3 semesters show enough growth

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[Goro]

Adcoms don't look at semester by semester GPAs. We look at year by year GPAs.

Don't explain anything unless asked.

Why didn't you take a LOA when things started going downhill?

 

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[hopefulldr]

Adcoms don't look at semester by semester GPAs. We look at year by year GPAs.

Don't explain anything unless asked.

Why didn't you take a LOA when things started going downhill?

I was on a scholarship to be able to afford school and as a first gen american- I honestly wasn't super aware taking a LOA was even an option or if I would be able to keep my financial aid

 

[LizzyM]

You never fell below 3.5.... I'd say there is nothing to explain, particularly if some of those lowest semesters were when you were taking o-chem.

 

[GoSpursGo]

This is not a bad trend. It's unlikely anyone will ask