<p>I was suspended for a semester, freshman year, for possesion of straterra, which is prescription drug for ADD.</p>
<p>I am a junior now, </p>
<p>GPA 4.2 Weighted
SAT 2340
class president(freshman year)
Student Government member
Tennis Team
Track 4 years
Founder of Hackeysack club
Started an after-school ESL program at my public Library</p>
<p>My Guidance couselor said she won't send my diciplinary file, but i don't know if she means taht she will lie for me on the common application.</p>
<p>I have great teachers that will write excellent recommendations for me.</p>
<p>i am wondering if my suspension will prevent me from getting to the schools which i would have been able to get into, without my suspension.</p>
<p>I really want to go to a first tier school like Cornell or Northwestern, any school with good Under graduate business administration program</p>
<p>You need to talk to your counselor about this. I doubt she intends to lie for you, but she may be willing to act as your advocate and talk to admissions reps at the schools you are interested in. I would hope that you would be considered for admission, since I would hate to think that a stupid mistake by a 14-year old could adversely affect your options for the future so severely. I think it helps that the incident occurred during your freshman year and that there were no similar incidents later in your high school career. It would be helpful if your counselor could stress how maturely you dealt with the suspension and how sincerely you worked to regain everyone's trust and to do well once you were back in school. In other words, the colleges need to feel CERTAIN that this was a SINGLE stupid act, that you have learnt your lesson, and that you will not create any problems for them related to drug use or any disregard for school rules.</p>
<p>i don't know about your school, but at mine, if you are in possession of any kind of drug, prescription or non prescription, you will get in trouble. for prescription drugs, one must go through the nurses office to receive them.</p>
<p>Yeah public schools can be dicks about the whole drugs thing. In middle school I had to hide the Advil I needed for back pains in a mints case because I couldn't possibly go to the nurses office every time I needed Advil. Luckily, I'm on the prep school circuit so everyone's chill about that stuff and its not against any rules to have perscription drugs if there yours or over-the-counter medications (like Advil).</p>
<p>i had the prescription, but i got it a day before the incident, and the school said that since the school didn't know about it, i had to be suspended for a semester due to some bs no tolerance rule.</p>
<p>this is stupid. i really doubt you're going to have a problem with this. the drug that got you suspended is not illegal like cocaine or heroine...you just had it without a prescription which you can explain was a stupid mistake. were you caught "possessing" it or using it? just lie and say that you were holding it for a friend and it was a misunderstanding or something</p>