Back in freshman-sophomore year, I was volunteering at a soup kitchen weekly. Over the two years, I volunteered about 300 hours and developed a lot of meaningful interactions with our guests.
However, towards the end of soph year, I developed some mental health issues (GAD/depression) and started showing up late and sometimes skipping all together.
I'm not making excuses for myself - what I did was horrible and I own up to it. I was eventually "let go" in the middle of junior year and the SK president said to not ask for a reference/LoR because he will cite professionalism issues.
Originally, I thought when adcoms email/call our activity contacts, they only ask for hours and length of time worked. However, I'm seeing some threads where some people say adcoms also ask for a character reference. Is this true?
I'm torn on whether I should include this activity or not. It was significantly meaningful to me and I put it both in my PS and MME. I'm worried that if adcoms do ask for a character reference, the professionalism issues will come up and I'll be blacklisted. There are no other "red flags" on my application.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated, thanks!
However, towards the end of soph year, I developed some mental health issues (GAD/depression) and started showing up late and sometimes skipping all together.
I'm not making excuses for myself - what I did was horrible and I own up to it. I was eventually "let go" in the middle of junior year and the SK president said to not ask for a reference/LoR because he will cite professionalism issues.
Originally, I thought when adcoms email/call our activity contacts, they only ask for hours and length of time worked. However, I'm seeing some threads where some people say adcoms also ask for a character reference. Is this true?
I'm torn on whether I should include this activity or not. It was significantly meaningful to me and I put it both in my PS and MME. I'm worried that if adcoms do ask for a character reference, the professionalism issues will come up and I'll be blacklisted. There are no other "red flags" on my application.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated, thanks!