Disciplinary action and the massive screwage it causes...

Transfer Students
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<p>I got an MIP (minor in possession) a few weeks ago. I don't have to go to court; you just take a class and then you have a strike on your record. It just means you were drinking or in the presence of alcohol. I can get it expunged from my record, but probably not before the schools review my applications. My stats are not excellent for the schools to which I'm applying.</p>

<p>Does this mean I'm royally screwed? It isn't academic dishonesty, which I would think they'd take more seriously, and I can write a pretty good explanation of it...(though I can't make much of an excuse).</p>

<p>It was a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. God, I hate this. It's my fault, but it may ruin my chances...</p>

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<p>were you in posession on school grounds?</p>

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<p>why can't you have alcohol? aren't you 19?</p>

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<p>exactly how is that sort of thing communicated to schools? does it go on the application or are the schools automatically notified or what?</p>

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<p>go to court and contest it</p>

<p>you really don't want an MIP at this time..</p>

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<p>Well are you saying you never got explicitly arrested or charged with a crime? From what I read it sounds as though you were just slightly reprimanded by the school and were never charged with a crime. If this is so, the common app college officials reports reads as follow:
"Has the applicant ever been found responsible for a disciplinary violation at your school, whether related to academic misconduct or behavioral misconduct, that resulted in the applicant’s probation, suspension, removal, dismissal, or expulsion from your institution?"
So from what you’ve said it doesn’t seem as though you were the subject of any of the previously mentioned actions and if you weren't why mention it on your app since its not asked for? I don’t know if this helps or not and additionally, I don’t know if the forms ask the same question as the common app but GL with everything.</p>

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<p>Syr something is wrong with my computer and everything is’nt getting posted. But basically all I'm saying is if its not asked for on any forms (which it is’nt on the common app as long it wasn't a crime-- misdemeanor or felony/probation/suspension) I don’t see any reason this would come to into light and affect you.</p>

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<p>Thanks, Grant15...that's really comforting. Maybe you can imagine the feeling of watching the police officers walking through the door and then having tp describe the whole incident to an admissions committee...not that I didn't bring this on myself. (But seriously - there were eight of us in a private apartment watching a movie. What kind of luck do you have to have...?)</p>

<p>In answer to some of the questions:
The apartment was school-owned, so yes...
In the US, 19 is underage...
I think it goes on the app if I have to report it at all, or in the Dean's recs...(ugh)
I cannot go to court and contest it. About 0.5% of those cases are won by students.
I wasn't arrested, but I was given a ticket, and I think that it may qualify as a misdemeanor. Not sure. I'm taking a class to get the charges dismissed, but I'll still have a strike on my school record, and I may be on probation, though as it isn't academic, I don't know what that will do to my chances.</p>