Submit an Academic Petition or Appeal

Petition Letter: I need to drop my current course with Queen's University as shortly after the course began I made an attempt to end my life and spent some time in both the hospital as well as the psychiatric ward which greatly impacted my ability to participate in my studies.

The attempt was not only traumatic but also left a great physical impact on me and since then I have had to work to rebuild my life from square one which has left little room nor time for me to do schoolwork let alone even think about doing schoolwork.

I have made the decision to now switch to an in person university or college for this fall as I believe it will be better on my mental health and I am asking that you please allow me to drop this course and not have it show up as a fail on my school transcript harming my ability to get in to a school closer to home and in person.

I am working hard to rebuild my life after I almost lost it and I would really appreciate if I don't have to bear this as consequences of my actions so please help me get better and achieve my life goals of finishing school and becoming a teacher one day.

Thank you,
Amelia Gordon