Appeal Letter _ Need your feedback

Dear Committee Members

I hope this letter finds you in good health

I am writing this appeal letter as a request to review your decision to withdraw from the faculty of engineering just because I failed second time in a compulsory course a second time. I’m not writing you to give excuses but merely to shed some light on the situation that I have been throughout the last year.

Studying abroad is a difficult thing to say the least, but once you cross the barriers of your mental state(<-- this conclusion doesn't make any sense in English). I never took the idea of being homesick very seriously. Our family has moved around the world together from place to place, and i It is rare that one goes so far out of his route to continue his education. It is clear that I was a very good student for all semesters all previous prior to fall 2014 (please look at my Fall/Winter 2013 grades).

I admit, I had a very difficult time last year, and my grades suffered as a result. I don't mean to make excuses for my poor academic performance, but I would like to explain the circumstances. I was performing under stressful and uncomfortable circumstances some in which were life altering. My older son moved to another country for work during that year, and I fell into a deep depression.

I dropped two courses and get nothing from others during Fall 2014. Really I dropped that other courses as well but it seems that I did not see that these are not dropped. In winter, I repeat two courses and I got a C+ in one and failed in the other one (which is the biggest trouble though). I am not aware that if I fail twice I will be dismissed from the faculty otherwise how did I register normally for 4 courses in Winter 2015 and no probation letter had been received.

Following the bad grades time I’ve received on no fault but my own, I sought for the things that had to changed so I can move forward positively and receive your honorable degree. I have attended sessions with a student councilor at the university to tackle my problems. I continued to work on myself following the meets; I made the simple things work best for me in the beginning as to build strong roots. I adopted a to-do-list, I wrote down the problems and tackled them head on. For example, the message that is always addressed about having to make one step for a journey of a thousand miles never made more sense than it has now. I want to extend my apologies for not showing you how important it is to be here.

I know I’ve had a couple of setbacks, and I apologize to you the committee for feeling as if I wasted your time for my poor academic performances. I understand you’re trying to run an institution of higher learning, and you’re trying to set everything to a fair standard for everyone. Lately, due to the decision, I sat down with myself to re-evaluated my mistakes and the change I’m GOING to make moving forward.

• I have attended sessions with a student councilor at the university to tackle my problems
• I will seek the aid of tutors if need be for continual improvements
• Once I receive my schedule, I will construct a study timetable for homework assignments and preparations for exams. That was also a problem I was facing early on.
• I also want to start visiting my professors during office hours in order to keep up with the work and get his insight

I will continue to improve my grades for the semester and the following to come and would be like the opportunity to meet and speak about this in person and appeal. I just ask that I can be considered for a semester to show you that I have learned from my mistakes and this fault would not continue on because I have addressed it and is following a plan to eliminate it completely. I would ask kindly for a chance not for the appeal to waiver just a chance to prove to you and myself that these changes are here to stay. I want to prove to the committee, the University, my family and mostly to myself that I have been bent, but not broken.


Thank you for the time you took to read this

I hope to hear from you

Cordially Yours,