Submit an Academic Petition or Appeal

Petition Letter: I am submitting this additional petition to request CR standing for several other courses from the same term in which I previously received approval. At the time of my original petition, I selected the courses where I felt the impact of my situation was most significant. Upon further reflection, I realized that the same circumstances also affected my performance in other courses, and I would like to formally request that they be considered as well.

My situation has not changed, and the original letter of support remains accurate. I’ve attached it again for reference.

Statement:

My mental state during these times was not great, my Mom made me very depressed. This made it difficult to study and focus on any task at hand. I became very unmotivated and upset when my Mom would act this way. I still struggle with being motivated to this day and I do feel like without her in my life I have improved a lot. I believe that this significantly affected me in both my first and second years, I would often go days without doing anything being upset over these issues or her behaviour. Third year, I believe that I was finally able to start to focus and not pay attention to what she was saying. This is very reflected in my grades as they significantly became better. I noticed such an improvement in myself as time went on here at Queens and as I started speaking to her less.
This is the best way I can summarize a few of the events that happened throughout university. Unfortunately, there are so many instances of abuse from my Mother that I cannot or feel uncomfortable explaining. Unfortunately, she can no longer be in my life for my mental health.