Dismissed/Expelled...Chances?

<p>dismissed from my current school for smoking weed. I know I know I deserved it, but I already completed four semester and my cumulative gpa is around 3.5 and I don't want to let all that time, money, and effort go to waste. This last year, I averaged a 3.9. It's tremendously frustrating but I need your input on my chances of getting accepted for a transfer to rpi, loyola univ chicago, american univ, miami univ (oxford). i say this coz i just submitted my app.
Good ECs
high test scores
two internships
good recs</p>

<p>would the dismissal play a huge role in the decision? if things go south after this summer, i might as well jump. but for now i'm just waiting and seeing how things will turn out.</p>

<p>Yes, it could play a significant role in where else you get in. How did you explain the dismissal? Was this for a first offense or had the college warned you repeatedly? Have you sworn off drugs now?</p>

<p>have you considered boulder, Colorado college, University of Washington? Etc…</p>

<p>I’d be curious to know which regressive, backward-thinking school dismissed a 3.9 student because of what they chose to do with their own body… I suppose its effect on your transfer chances will all boil down to each individual adcom though and how oldschool or progressive they are in their paradigms.</p>

<p>Have you thought about emailing each admission office and just asking directly?</p>

<p>“I’d be curious to know which regressive, backward-thinking school dismissed a 3.9 student because of what they chose to do with their own body”</p>

<p>Committing federal crimes on campus is a big deal. We don’t know what happened. This may have occurred repeatedly in a nonsmoking dorm. There’s a lot of story missing here.</p>

<p>Although I don’t touch the stuff, I just don’t see it as the crime of the century that you (and apparently, the OP’s school) do. It’s no worse for you than alcohol, so it’s a little surprising to see this thread about it resulting in an expulsion, but then again, I am from Washington =)</p>

<p>OP, have you exhausted all the appeals processes available to you at your current institution? That’s another option that could give you a chance at completing your education, but certainly won’t hurt you if it doesn’t succeed.</p>