Financial Aid Appeal Letter

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I am writing this letter in great hopes of having my financial aid reinstated for the Spring of 2016. I came to LC on an academic and athletic scholarship with the best mindset anyone could have, but I was immediately sat on the bench. As a first year student without the support I could usually find in my friends and family from home and having no outlet for my escalating frustration and my always lurking chronic depression, I quickly started to become stressingly overwhelmed. I had the most unexpected and horrible event happen to me in the first week of Fall 2015. I became a popular subject within whispered conversations for a month and a half on campus among LCSC’s Track and Field and Cross Country team and eventually the Talkington dorm …show more content…

I have a history of severe migraines and pseudoseizures effected purely by stress. Soon I was having small but daily seizures, and without an outlet my pent up energy and bottled up emotions, it soon escalated to two grand mal-like seizures. One resulted in my transportation to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center and another was observed by most of my track teammates, which was beyond mortifying. I became known as the “seizure girl.” Both of these seizures and rumors resulted in having me temporarily excluding me from all track related …show more content…

Unfortunately, one of my professors tried persuading me into dropping out of college altogether and this was something that I was not interested in hearing. I had no way of making it back home and was too ashamed of what people would think. This encounter with her became my last, but it was too late, I constantly had her words in my head telling me to quit as soon as I started to catch up on missing assignments, but I was determined to persevere. For the rest of the semester I tried as hard as I could to keep my head above water despite everything against me; but I still couldn’t seemed to pull myself together. No matter the amount of studying I did, I could not get my assignments completed. I managed to pass my math class, it was simple and did not involve much effort or emotion, which I believe to be the reason it was easy to keep up

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