The following writeup need professional editing so that it doesn’t exceed 1000 characters.”My mother, Dr. XXX XXXXl, who was a Physician working at Mount Sinai, NYC, was diagnosed with Stage 4 Gastric cancer in October 2017 when I was a senior at High School. I immediately took on the role of Mother’s carer. I kept up my attendance at school, but my grades dropped in the senior year as I couldn’t focus in class. After completing my first year of college at Boston University when I came home in May 2019 for summer break, I saw that my mother’s health had deteriorated significantly. I decided to temporarily transfer over to local school near my home (Rutgers) so that I could spend more time with my mother. By this time, Doctors had started telling us that my mother had very little time left. Unfortunately, a week after I started school at Rutgers, on September 9, 2019 my mother passed away. For the next 3-4 weeks, it was very difficult for me to focus on studies as I was busy in mourning and performing my mother’s last rites and rituals. As a result, I had to withdraw out of the Physics class as I had missed some key quizzes/tests during this period and I was not sure of securing a high grade.”
