Mitigating circumstances do not include: withdrawing from classes to avoid failing grades, pursuing a second major or degree, etc. Steps the student has taken/will take to ensure future academic success.
I was the only student in my grade pursuing music professionally, which made it hard to find connections with my classmates as well as the support of my teachers.
He dropped out of the University of Texas at Austin in 1935 as a junior, because of what he called "awful grades," to pursue a career in the news business, and what a career Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. had.
After failing to get the grades to pursue medicine, he began art studies at Khartoum's Gordon Memorial College (named, ironically, after a British colonial hero killed by the Sudanese), and by the time he won a scholarship to London's Slade art school in 1954, he was well-versed in figure-drawing, perspective and the western view of art history.
And they should keep their grades up, pursue internships as early as their freshman summer and participate in extra-curricular activities and volunteer work that would interest an employer, like the debate team, advertising club or a political campaign.
He quit school in the eighth grade to pursue music professionally, joining the Olympia Serenaders and appearing on an early radio show.
As this smart, hard-bitten woman with an eighth-grade education pursues her quest, the documentary portrays the debate between connoisseurship and science as a culture war.
He soon found that there was money to be made selling cosmetics on the sidewalk — "Owning a tube of lipstick was an untold luxury" — and dropped out of school after ninth grade to pursue business ventures.
He dropped out of school in the ninth grade to pursue music — the story is that his school gave him the choice of either cutting his hair or leaving, and he left.
The results of this study contribute meaningfully to the literature by suggesting that universal Pre-K, and not just criteria-selective Pre-K, can sustain literacy gains well into first grade when systematically pursued by a committed district.
Pressureless sintering of powder-processed functionally graded materials is being pursued to economically produce metal ceramic composites for a variety of high-temperature (e.g., thermal protection) and energy-absorbing (e.g., armor) applications.
