What is the best way to answer AMCAS question on Institutional action

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How do you answer this question on the AMCAS application?

Institutional action
Were you ever the recipient of any institutional action by any college or medical school for unacceptable academic performance or conduct violation, even though such action may not have interrupted your enrollment or required you to withdraw?

see I was put on academic probation at my undergrad school but not my post bac university.

what is the best way to answer this question without sounding like a whiney baby or blaming things, BUT still conveying my point.

What are some good techniques? Should I talk about how I got out of it well or how I got into it? What should I focus on?

They obviously want an explaination and they give 1,325 characters, or approximately 1/4 page to do it

suggestions?

 

[Madame]

How do you answer this question on the AMCAS application?

Institutional action
Were you ever the recipient of any institutional action by any college or medical school for unacceptable academic performance or conduct violation, even though such action may not have interrupted your enrollment or required you to withdraw?

see I was put on academic probation at my undergrad school but not my post bac university.

what is the best way to answer this question without sounding like a whiney baby or blaming things, BUT still conveying my point.

What are some good techniques? Should I talk about how I got out of it well or how I got into it? What should I focus on?

They obviously want an explaination and they give 1,325 characters, or approximately 1/4 page to do it

suggestions?

Most often the applicants with that type of IA just state the facts. It usually goes something like this, "in 2005, at the end of my freshman year, I was placed on academic probation for earning a gpa of <2.0. This was a wake-up call. I sought help for my lack of organizational skills and poor study habits and returned to school in the fall ready to make the most of my college education. I earned earned a gpa of 3.77 that semester and my gpa has not been less than 3.58 in any semester since that time."