High School Disciplinary Record + Transferring

Transfer Students
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<p>So, I'm not going to go into full details on this forum, but I'm going to summarize my situation.</p>

<p>Basically, in the middle of my high school career I along with several other students was transferred to an alternate education school for about 30 days pending a disciplinary investigation. I decided to transfer out of the school district to a private school since the year had already ended.</p>

<p>However, now I am looking over transfer applications and each of them require me to disclose disciplinary records such as the one I've listed above. Moreover, they want me to write a description of what happened. For some schools, such as Vanderbilt, I need to send the school I transferred out a similar paper so that they can write what happened, as well. In all honesty, the investigation was extremely serious.</p>

<p>What chances do I have at schools now? Most of you here have read my stats and the schools I want to transfer, but a condensed list is included below:</p>

<ul>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Wake Forest</li>
<li>GWU</li>
<li>Fordham</li>
<li>Villanova</li>
<li>UT-Austin</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>SMU</li>
<li>BC</li>
</ul>

<p>20 dual-credits completed in Fall of '09 while in high school. (Through a community college)
20 dual-credits completed in Spring of '10 while in high school. (Through a community college)
30 dual-credits in progress in Summer '10. (Through a community college)</p>

<p>Maintaining 4.0 GPA, thank God, and projecting a 4.0 GPA with 63 credits.</p>

<p>Starting University at a very small LAC in the Honors program. 18 credits in the Fall and Spring, respectively. Planning on transferring for Fall of 2011.</p>

<p>SAT is meh, about a 1900. Gonna try and retake, as well as ACT.</p>

<p>Thoughts? Be as blunt as possible, please.</p>

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<p>Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe you posted a similar question a few weeks ago with no responses. So hopefully my response will give you some assistance. What I would do in your situation would be to call the transfer admissions office of some schools at the same level as the ones you are applying to. Unless, of course, you just want to call your list of schools. Tell them your situation. Ask them what they think. I’ve got a somewhat similar situation but I won’t be applying for transfer for another year and by then my high school suspension will be nearly 11 years old and thus, hopefully, barely even acknowledged when my application is reviewed.</p>

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<p>I would also check out a few colleges that don’t require high school information.</p>

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<p>@contramundum09</p>

<p>Thank you for the reply. And yes, I posted a question with almost no information. This was out of desperation as I had realized that, perhaps, my transfer chances had went from “decent” to absolutely null.</p>

<p>I’ll most likely do what you recommended. I know several of the schools on my list don’t require a secondary school profile from ALL my high schools, just the graduating school (such as Wake Forest).</p>

<p>In all honesty, this is quite depressing. If I were to do a A LOT of service work (in excess of 100+ hours) per semester, would this somehow make up for this blemish?</p>

<p>@college_ruled</p>

<p>Thank you for this suggestion, however all of the 40 or so schools that I am looking at use either Common App or require the question of high school disciplinary record be answered. Of course, they may not request my previous high school to send information. However, I am not about to lie on my applications or in some indirect way.</p>

<p>Thank you both. :).</p>

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<p>I don’t know a damn thing about community service but I would guess that it certainly couldn’t hurt if you were to devote some time to that.</p>

<p>I do know, however, that UT (Austin) does not require high school transcripts/records when you apply for transfer. Only until after you’ve been accepted would you then need to send them your high school transcripts.</p>

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<p>I don’t think community service would ever hurt you, but…</p>

<p>A college chosing between otherwise “identical” candidates might make the choice of someone who didn’t have such a blemish on his/ her record over one who did. There are plenty of transfers who had an “almost ‘perfect’” record in high school who are applying to top schools as a transfer. </p>

<p>This is why (if you really want to transfer) you will want some colleges that don’t require your high school info at all. </p>

<p>Good luck!</p>