<p>I already graduated college a number of years ago, but with the economy and everything, I'm considering going backing for more schooling. I'll be honest, when I first applied for college all those years ago, I neglected to disclose all college-level work attempted prior to application. I got bad advice and decided not to list a community college course I got a "C" in that I had taken during high school on my college applications. </p>
<p>However, now that I'm thinking about going back to school, I will be listing all the schools I have attended (including that community college course from high school) on the application. To further complicate things, one of the schools I'm applying to is the same school I graduated from. My question is, what can my school do to me if they find out I wasn't totally truthful the first time around? Can they take away my degree?</p>
<p>They’re not going to recognize that you’ve now got another course. They’re not going to compare your current application to your previous application.</p>
<p>I agree with VeryHappy. I’m sure the adcoms have alot to do, and will probably not have the time or desire to look into things that closely. However, if you’re really nervous about it, you could always anonymously contact the college via e-mail and see what they say.</p>
<p>I know it varies from school to school, but is it “common” for colleges to take away a degree for something like not disclosing a college course on an undergrad application even if it was required? I went to a big public state college if that matters, and I graduated just about 3 years ago so it wasn’t too long ago.</p>
<p>At a big state school they would never notice and even if by some twist of fate they did, I am 99.999999% sure that they wouldn’t care. I wouldn’t worry at all about it. I have never heard of a degree being taken away and I doubt it would ever happen just because you omitted a tiny piece of information for undergrad admissions over 7 years ago.</p>
<p>Not listing the class when the applications required it was a stupid part on my move, but I’m kind of wondering why would the college not care now? I’ve heard stories of like Harvard taking back degrees years after some students graduate and that’s what scares me.</p>
<p>For one it’d be a huge administrative hassle. Also, omitting one class from community college for an application, in no way affected your coursework at the university itself. And taking back a degree would cause way too much undue fuss for something they probably don’t truly care about, since it didn’t really affect your work at their university anyway.</p>
<p>You need to find a way to “come clean” with the college that you graduated from because clearly this is bothering you a lot. The suggestion of posing the question in an anonymous email is not such a bad idea. Another option might be to arrange to have a third party discuss this situation with the admissions office. Chances are that that one C would not have made a difference in your admission in the first place. It might not have transferred for credit either.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s weird. I never gave it a second thought when I first applied or when I graduated. It was only just recently when I started looking at applications and seeing that they required all past coursework to be included that it started to get to me. But what I say? Would I pose the situation as a hypothetical or something?</p>
<p>If you’re going to do the e-mail route and truly want to remain anonymous I’d A) sign up with a free online e-mail account (hotmail,yahoo,gmail, ect…) that doesn’t actually link to any of your real information. and Then I’d just e-mail the admissions dept. asking what the possible repercussions could be if _____, so yeah, I’d probably to hypothetical. </p>
<p>While I still personally believe it probably won’t matter, I wish you the best of luck! And congrats on the decision to return for more education and betterment :)</p>
<p>I attended Some University from 2002 to 2005, and I am now considering applying to graduate school there. In reviewing the admissions application materials, I’ve realized that I omitted community college coursework on my undergraduate application. Now that I realize this omission, I feel that it is important that I include this information on my graduate school application. Is such an inconsistency cause for concern? If so, is there anything I can do to remedy this situation?</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>You</p>
<p>Really, I can’t imagine that the university will care one lick. The person who receives your message will probably think, “What the heck?” and write back some short reply that more or less translates to, “Uh, we don’t care, so stop worrying about it.”</p>