Timeline for How can I document depression for later reference in grad school applications?
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| Apr 9, 2018 at 4:43 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | This is not constructive advice, and speaking as an academic who is involved in monitoring the progress and well-being of graduate students in my department, I would hate to feel that any of them felt unable to disclose personal difficulty for fear of seeming to "make excuses" | |
| Apr 9, 2018 at 2:21 | comment | added | cag51♦ | I agree that people are quick to blame mental health or other outside factors rather than their own underperformance. That said, admission committees are interested in context. Certainly one can't explain away their entire undergraduate record with such claims, but in this case only a single semester is bad, and there was an obvious, temporary, and unlikely-to-recur cause for the problem, so I think it is altogether reasonable to provide such context for the committee in cases such as this. | |
| Apr 9, 2018 at 1:58 | comment | added | user3508551 | Having a bad day? | |
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| Apr 9, 2018 at 1:53 | history | answered | guest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |