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Any application could be rejected for reasons outside of academic performance.As previously mentioned, firms may also be hesitant to proceed with your application because they cannot determine you are on track for a 2.1/have the ability to perform at this level. However, this is only the current situation and if you got your third year grades up to a 2.1 then this would not be an issue.Mental health and undiagnosed neurodiversity are taken seriously enough to be considered mitigating circumstances. But the firm cannot determine that without those circumstances you would have performed to a higher level, let alone what that higher level would have been.
Any application could be rejected for reasons outside of academic performance.
As previously mentioned, firms may also be hesitant to proceed with your application because they cannot determine you are on track for a 2.1/have the ability to perform at this level. However, this is only the current situation and if you got your third year grades up to a 2.1 then this would not be an issue.
Mental health and undiagnosed neurodiversity are taken seriously enough to be considered mitigating circumstances. But the firm cannot determine that without those circumstances you would have performed to a higher level, let alone what that higher level would have been.
