<p>Where the application asks about disciplinary action in high school, will putting yes have a lot of impact on your chances? Even though the explination states that it was a minor infraction for being late to school, will they really look down upon it?</p>
<p>my school doesnt keep records of detentions, so we don't have to report them, its only suspensions/expulsions we have to report.
that being said, you might want to ask your guidance counselor about your schools policies.</p>
<p>The forms ask about suspensions/expulsions. Being late, unless you got a suspension, doesn't need to be reported. If you got a suspension for being late, you need to write an explanation and you should talk to your counselor. Are you irresponsible or were there circumstances beyond your control? This is the thing you will need to explain.</p>
<p>I know UC applications don't ask for disciplinary action.</p>
<p>The box usually asks for something like suspension. I assume this wasn't a full suspension like a fight or something would be. Talk to your guidance counselor about whether or not it will be mentioned at all on your transcript or in his/her recommendation since it was such a minor infraction. If it won't be mentioned, I wouldn't bother bringing it up. But make sure that you know for sure it won't be mentioned at ALL before you check "no".</p>
<p>ok the incident i'm talking about wasn't a full external suspension, but it also wasn't as little as a detention. It was what my school calls In School Suspension where you spend a day in a room doing work. So on certain applications where it says specifically any suspensions or expulsions, I'll check no, but some say disciplinary action which is a little more vague. I guess I will talk to my guidance counselor like you said 19382, I just wanted to get some supplements out this weekend. But anyway, what does anyone think about addmissions officer's attitude towards disciplinary action in highschool in general, not just my case. I'm curious.</p>
<p>Ask your guidance counselor. You are not likely to be the only kid who has applied to colleges who have had an in school suspension. The gc can clarify what you school considers reportable transgressions. There are strange titles for all kinds of disciplinary actions. If your school has operated on the basis that this is an offence reportable to college, then so be it. If the GC tells you that it is not, then fine. </p>
<p>The question comes up often --whether disciplinary actions can adversely affect college admissions. The answer is that they can, depending on the action, the explanation, the school, the adcom. According to what I have seen, known and been told by our guidance counselors, minor transgressions are ignored. Some kids from S's school have been accepted despite some necessary "extra" essays at school where a slight negative tip could have easily resulted in a rejection since some very selective schools were involved. I know of a number of kids whose acceptances were not rescinded, nor were there any consequences from the colleges such as disciplinary probation, required community service, when they got into some very serious trouble at the end of senior year. And we are talking about HPY schools. Whether that kind of trouble would have prevented the kids from ever getting accepted had the colleges known before making the decision, I don't know. But I was surprised how tolerant these colleges are, considering the many kids on the wait list. None of the kids had any hooks;<br>
or any reason to suspect favorable treatment. The gc told me that this does happen regularly, and it is rare that college is hung up enough on a disciplinary action that they call the gc and tell him that it is an issue that makes the decision hang in limbo. When they call, it is usually to substantiate the student's version of the story, and make sure that there is not anything else there that needs to be considered.
My son wrote an essay about getting into trouble his sophomore year--pretty significant trouble, but he did not have to report the incident on the app as the college app question asked specifically for certain punishments. I did not feel it was a wise choice of topic, but he sent it out any ways, and I could not detect any negative vibes from the colleges. He was accepted at schools that were a bit of a reach, and the rejections/waitlists were no surprises as they were highly selective schools and he was a good two levels below that selectivity range. But then, who knows?</p>
<p>Im kinda in the same situation. I wrote something stupid on my AP english exam, made casual reference to drugs and social prejudice. And got in trouble with the Assistant principal. She gave me 5-Saturday Schools, which is that you have to come to school on saturdays at 8am, do school-related work, and go home at 12pm, so, it's like 4 extra hours of school for 5 weeks. But I decided to report it on my college app. and explain it to them that it was a learning experience for me.</p>
<p>If it's something like being late for school, it's not going to make a difference. As long as you explain it, realize that admissions people are human too and aren't going to let a petty thing like that make a huge difference.</p>