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Hey guys! I have a question that I have been debating for a long time. My mother was diagnosed with Huntington’s disease my junior year of college. It was during my first semester at a 4 year university after transferring from a community college. Between being 1.500 miles from my parents while my mother was being diagnosed and moving to a harder college my grades slipped a bit. It was just a lot to handle at once. (I have a low gpa that I have done a post bad to show an upward trend) I am just curious if y’all think this is worth saying in my app or if I should omit the Huntington’s disease part and just say I didn’t realize how difficult transferring would be and I changed my work ethic and did better from there. I am just scared to put this into an application because Huntington’s disease is genetic and I do not want to be tested for it before I have long term insurance, life insurance, etc. I’m scared it will hurt me more than help me and I wanted y’all’s opinions. I have personally decided that I want to go into medicine no matter if I get Huntington’s or not, but I just don’t know if I should include it on my app. I know the obvious answer seems like no but I thought I would ask y’all’s opinions.