letter

Cindy Juarez
4/23/2013
Mountain View High school

Letter of Appeal
“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”-Churchill
In my life I’ve always had a plan or a certain path I was destined to take to reach my goal or destination, but when things don’t go as planned what is one to do? Give up, or try again? When I read this quote it reminds me that no matter what life throws at you, you have to find a way to overcome the obstacles to get what you want and giving up is not an option for me. This quote happens to be one of my favorites because it always sets me back on the right path and helped me during my four years in high school. I tried out for cheerleading three times and never made the team until my fourth time. I made the inaugural JV cheerleading team at Mountain View high school my sophomore year and it was the best thing to happen to me at the time, unfortunately during practice one afternoon I was dropped and landed on my right ankle and completely broke it into two pieces. It took eight screws, twelve stitches and a rope to put my ankle back together. I was rushed into the emergency room for surgery, my doctor said I was lucky my bone didn’t pop out of my skin. I was forced to take three weeks off from school just to recover and this was towards the end of the semester. When I was ready to go back to school I was using a wheel chair for about a month, I was under narcotics (pain medication) while attending class which made it hard to concentrate and I had to leave class to go see the school nurse to take more medication. So I was missing quite a bit of class, not to mention all my physical therapy I had to go to after school and some days during school. It took a lot to recover for me. I tried so hard to keep track of my school work, I stayed after school When I didn’t have therapy just to make up everything and get tutored from my teachers and peers but somehow it wasn’t enough. I failed my history class with a sixty-eight percent even after I made up my work and explained to the teacher I was coming to school in a wheelchair while I was on pain medication. I wasted no time making up my credit in history. I also failed math that year, and that’s what put me so far behind and the main reason as to why my GPA is outstandingly low. During my junior year I was still considered a “sophomore” so I was put in a sophomore math class I did fine gaining my credits back and made a “B” my first semester and “C” my second of sophomore math. Bu there was another obstacle I was soon I faced and that was that my senior year was right around the corner and was still a whole year behind in math. My counselors starting telling me that I was not going to be able to graduate on time even my parents started thinking my graduation was going to have to be delayed they saw my goals as unachievable specially when I started my senior year as a junior. I quickly put a stop to their negative thinking and had already came up with another plan because just like Winston Churchill said, “Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them” And that’s what I wanted to be, a winner. I started going to Phoenix High School the very first day my senior year started for a whole semester and the goal to be achieved there was to gain my first semester and second semester credits in a matter of weeks. I was going every day from 3:30-6:00, no breaks while balancing a job at Chick-Fil-A, with all of this work going on at the same time just helps me prove to you guys that I can manage anything, complete my work and will do my best to succeed at GGC. I defined my goal, I believed in myself and I achieved it. Just when everyone had doubted me I proved them wrong and was back on track to graduate with my peers and represent Mountain View’s graduating class of 2013. I’m a full senior now, I take stat/discrete math at school for my sixth and seventh period. So it’s like phoenix again except I leave at 2:10. I passed stat. gained that credit and I’ve maintained an “A” (95%) in my discrete class as of today. My grades this year have been the best, I’ve applied myself greatly this year in all of my classes and hope to exempt most of my finals. I recently applied to GGC hoping to get accepted after I did well on my compass test, and I understand my GPA does not meet the required GPA because my transcripts won’t be updated until January of this year showing I made up my credits for stat/discrete which keeps my GPA at a solid 1.69 until January but I refuse to get a late start on my future. But I would really like to be given a second chance and would like to be looked at again as a student for Georgia Gwinnett College I would be a great freshman and never disappoint anyone at GGC. I plan on making A’s and B’S just to prove that to GGC and myself that I’m not a failure and I can succeed on anything I believe and put my mind into. And so far believe that it is a wonderful school that will take me where I need to go and help me achieve my goals and pursue my ultimate goal which it to attend UGA one day and graduate with a bachelor degree and become a reporter. I would love to have GGC be part of this next chapter I’m about to take in life. So please take your time to look at this appealment letter and thank you so much for your consideration and this second chance you have given me to re-apply and hopefully get accepted.
Sincerely,

Cindy Juarez