Need Help! Writing Appeal for Terminated Financial Aid?

[amanda h]

I need help. I just finished my freshman year of college and I've gotten my financial aid taken away because of my low gpa. I'm allowed to appeal it if the drop in grades was due to circumstances beyond my control. My poor grades were due to my mother's drug problem with crack. During the school year I would always leave my dorm for the weekends to come home and the problems going on there would really hit me hard. It got me all involved in that and I wasnt focusing on myself and my grades. I just feel like the letter that I write to them won't be trused. I feel like they'll think I'm making it up to get out of it. Plus theres is no way I can actually prove that with documentation... I want to also explain in the letter that this year I really plan to focus more one myself and getting my work done and that'll mean not going home and getting wrapped up in those problems... I want to prove to the financial aid counselor that I'm telling the truth and prove to her/him that I will do everything in my power this coming semester to leave those problems behind and focus on what's important for me right now. Do you think that this will work out for me?? Any tips? Please. I need help with this.