Common app pandemic hardship hurts or helps?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child experienced pandemic blues and affected the academics for the first time ever. Did anyone write about it in their common app. Did it help with early admissions or hurt?

Cry me a river buttercup

Why should we cry for you? If your family member died then you should cry, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child experienced pandemic blues and affected the academics for the first time ever. Did anyone write about it in their common app. Did it help with early admissions or hurt?

Cry me a river buttercup

You don’t even know what this child went through. Too quick to throw shade, aren’t you!

[Anonymous]

It can be mentioned in the Common App space for extenuating circumstances. I would not use it as the basis for his whole essay.

[Anonymous]

Ask their therapist.