Personal Statement: A Letter To Mesa Community College
To Whom This May Concern:
Today I received a message in my student email about my academic progress. I was denied Financial Aid due to my poor academic performance my 2015-2016 semester at Mesa Community College. The reason for not meeting academic requirements the previous semester was because of my lack of organization with working, sports, and studying. I take full responsibility in not putting my academics before sports and work leading me to write this letter. I truly believed I could juggle working 20 hours a week as a swim instructor and also be a student-athlete for Mesa Community College while maintaining strong grades. I soon found myself struggling in classes and doing poorly on exams because I was not using my time correctly and pushing my school work to the side. In high school I worked as a swim instructor and ran cross country as I am now, I put little effort into studying and did what I had to do to get by. Those poor habits followed me into college and are now backfiring with proof through my GPA. For the 2016-2017 school years at Mesa Community College I have sat down and came up with several plans to have a successful …show more content…
There are many students doing the same thing as me and are receiving the grades they need, if they can do it I can too. Not only will I have let myself down but my parents and teammates. I have come this far, I do not want my past mistakes to ruin what I want to achieve academically in the future. I cannot afford this education and without the assistance from financial aid I will lose the two most important things in my life, education and cross country. This is a wake-up call for me to become a better student or lose it all. Thank you financial aid committee for taking the time out to read this appeal, attached to the back of this letter will be my own academic calendar for
Today I received a message in my student email about my academic progress. I was denied Financial Aid due to my poor academic performance my 2015-2016 semester at Mesa Community College. The reason for not meeting academic requirements the previous semester was because of my lack of organization with working, sports, and studying. I take full responsibility in not putting my academics before sports and work leading me to write this letter. I truly believed I could juggle working 20 hours a week as a swim instructor and also be a student-athlete for Mesa Community College while maintaining strong grades. I soon found myself struggling in classes and doing poorly on exams because I was not using my time correctly and pushing my school work to the side. In high school I worked as a swim instructor and ran cross country as I am now, I put little effort into studying and did what I had to do to get by. Those poor habits followed me into college and are now backfiring with proof through my GPA. For the 2016-2017 school years at Mesa Community College I have sat down and came up with several plans to have a successful …show more content…
There are many students doing the same thing as me and are receiving the grades they need, if they can do it I can too. Not only will I have let myself down but my parents and teammates. I have come this far, I do not want my past mistakes to ruin what I want to achieve academically in the future. I cannot afford this education and without the assistance from financial aid I will lose the two most important things in my life, education and cross country. This is a wake-up call for me to become a better student or lose it all. Thank you financial aid committee for taking the time out to read this appeal, attached to the back of this letter will be my own academic calendar for