Is it worth it to follow through my appeal for my degree classification?

Hi, created a new account because I'm a little bit exhausted from all this.

So, for context: I achieved 58.3 in my second year and 71.5 in my third year, with a 50/50 weighting. When I entered uni, I stopped speaking to my older brother and had limited contact with my father as a result. Basically, after years of argumentation and BS from the older brother and the family, I decided I was sick of it.

University was super hard compared to A-Levels. Even got reported by my ex to the University mid-second year, even - she was BPD. Never again. Submitted mitigating circumstances for it though - and it was rated moderate and was going to be carried over into my third year for degree classification.

But my reaction to the report led me to ask for reasonable adjustments for anxiety in my final year. But I realised that anxiety doesn't really permeate my life as much as other symptoms like focus do. I wasn't even diagnosed with anxiety but decided I might as well let the university know, right?

Then I realised I had ADHD in early March 2026. Got a referral in. Got reasonable adjustments for it in April 2026. Then I started to realise all of these things - estrangement from my family, undiagnosed, unmedicated ADHD. They all had an impact on me. So I submitted mitigating circumstances for that too.

So, all in all, 1 MC for the ex. 1 MC for the estrangement and the undiagnosed, unmedicated ADHD - which got rated C. Got diagnosed literally after my final exams - so more evidence. Like the term didn't even end yet. Got a first in my final year. Smashed it.

Around comes degree classification time. If I didn't get a first in my third year, I wouldn't have even considered it, but now that I realise how much I've been disadvantaged - and absent that, how much better I perform- I decided to appeal.

I looked for gaps in the procedure. Turns out the most the University does is 30 CATS in situations of undiagnosed and unmedicated ADHD. And that it's an informal convention, according to the staff I spoke to. So I appealed it, and it got rejected. Turns out it's an established means of applying academic judgement and not an informal convention. That's why 30 CATS was the limit.

So is it worth pursuing further? I can ask the uni to get my complaint to an appeal board and have my degree classification pursued further. But I'm not sure any more. Even the SU said that I should be proud of what I went through and of having achieved a 2.1. If they're acting in my interests, surely they'd be right, right?

I need another set of eyes on this.

TLDR: Undiagnosed, unmedicated ADHD (Entire degree) + family estrangement (2nd year of degree). Submitted as MCs but only in the third year, before any exams or before most essays were submitted. Now looking to appeal degree classification due to irregularity (30 CATS applied as an informal convention in cases of severe MCs) but received a response that 30 CATS is in fact an established means of academically judging cases of undiagnosed learning difficulties. SU says I should be proud of my degree and what the Board said is reasonable. I feel otherwise. Thoughts