captainballs
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How do you explain arrests and periods of poor performance in school related to anxiety/depression/chemicals? Is it safe to be candid, as long as it's done really, really well?
I think my marks will be okayish, but there are some serious holes in them at various points (like, say, this entire semester). How does one tread cautiously?
If, however, you don't disclose something and they still find out about it anyways, they will view you as a dishonest person and will NOT admit you.
Okay, so wizekrak and Tappanzee offer two different, but both very sensible, ways to approach this if you've got a "record".
I don't mean to derail captainballs' thread too much, but I guess I'm more concerned about things that are not necessarily *on record* - i.e. drug use (unrecorded) that has screwed my GPA (which of course is recorded).
Like wize says, admissions officers at professional schools aren't all as progressive as we'd like. So should I stay mute and, as Water says, just try to nail the LSAT? Or should I nail the LSAT *and* tell them about the drug abuse?