<p>" Yep, lol. Our school is really stupid with the no fighting thing too. If someone punches you first, clearly starting it, and you punch back you'll both be suspended. I'm glad that I'm leaving in June. "</p>
<p>YES! it's so ridiculous....</p>
<p>Here's the issue for the college to consider, since they do not know you:
Is this type of incident likely to happen again? Is this candidate going to be able to handle dorm life or live peacefully with a roomate?
If your GC is supportive of you, you can draft a letter together that explains the circumstances, details your otherwise exemplary behavior, stresses your regret and then makes it clear that you have learned a lesson and that this will not happen again.
In your posts, I'm not getting the sense of regret/remorse from you yet...that will be an important part of your letter.</p>
<p>I think your acceptances could be at risk. My S was a recruited athlete at some highly competitive schools and was repeatedly warned that any even minor behavioral issue would tank acceptance.</p>
<p>Will your guidance counselor be describing the fight and suspension if asked ? As you probably know, the common application mid year report specifically asks for this information. At the local high school guidance counselors don't report a single minor suspension.
<a href="https://app.commonapp.org/CommonApp/DownloadForms.aspx%5B/url%5D">https://app.commonapp.org/CommonApp/DownloadForms.aspx</a></p>
<p>Maybe you could take an anger management class demonstrating by behavior your motivation to not repeat this action ?</p>
<p>I think regardless of what the colleges and schools do, you need to think about your reaction...you do that in a bar or on the street, it could be jail. And no, its not something most people would do...he threw a ball at your face and you attacked him and sent him to the hospital...kind of a big deal.....would YOU take a risk on someone who doesn't even seemto have much remorse just excsuses</p>
<p>I'd be mad too if he did that to me. I would punch him in the face if he intentionally threw a dodge ball at my face, regardless of whether or not I had glasses on. Honestly, I don't blame you. You did that in the heat of the moment. It's easy to say that looking back in retrospect it was a stupid thing to do, but its much harder to think about it for that fleeting moment. One punch nose break? Nice.</p>
<p>SO you would punch someone in the face even though they could have you arrested and you could risk your college admissions? Smart advice, you are getting here strawberry</p>
<p>Swinging one punch can alter your life, guess ego is worth it to some....is hitting someone back worth all the possible consequences...guess so to some, and you know what, in that case you would deserve all the consequences you get</p>
<p>wouldn't feel at all sorry..if the OP felt even a little bad,and I bet you the school saw he didn't feel sorry at all, and with that attitude, the OP won't get much support from his school and he won't deserve it</p>
<p>Can I just say that I find the gender gap in the response to this really interesting?</p>
<p>Well, imagine if you were a dad and your son in a fit of immature anger broke someone's nose and got his admissions recinded, which I think is a real possibility...do you think dad would say, you go son!!</p>
<p>no. but if he broke someone's nose and didn't get the admissions rescinded, dad would say "you go, son".</p>
<p>I don't think so,,, NO dad that I know would do that...and I hope the kid has to pay the medical bills as well, maybe the insurance company will go after him</p>
<p>Go to your counselor and ask if this incident is going to be reported to your colleges. Violence is not something they like to see, but this incident is explainable.</p>
<p>I don't find it explainable at all...a ball knocked his classes off so he broke the guys nose...in what way at all is that explainable?</p>
<p>He was aiming at the cheek, and a broken cheek bone isnt so great, and with that aim, what if he damaged an eye</p>
<p>Violence like THIS is never explainable, the OP had a temper tantrum and really injured someone</p>
<p>ps this happened AT SCHOOL- a violent assualt, what no cops? A cop is called if a kid has a butter knife at lunch, a fight and nothing? Having a violent temper and not being at all remorseful is a very serious thing. And shuoldn't be taken in stride and explained away.</p>
<p>I personally find violence at school not a good nor excusable thing, and at least the OPs school sees that as well</p>
<p>I think 5 days suspension wasn't enough</p>
<p>"no. but if he broke someone's nose and didn't get the admissions rescinded, dad would say "you go, son"."</p>
<p>I don't know any dads who'd say something like that.
My husband grew up in a part of Chicago that was so gang infested that it was called "bucket of blood." He was in just one fight in his life -- and that was when he decked the school bully after the bully did something to him -- yet again. My husband's record was so clean and what the bully did was so obviously wrong that my husband didn't get cited by the school for fighting.</p>
<p>But cheering someone on for breaking someone's nose for throwing a ball at their face? No way. </p>
<p>I don't know any dads who'd think it was something great if their kid broke someone's nose unless the person was literally trying to kill their kid.</p>
<p>Anyone is out of touch with reality if they think admissions officers would support what the OP did. A lot of stupid horseplay goes on at colleges, and admissions officers would be wary about admitting someone who might turn horseplay into a hospital admission.</p>
<p>Hey, what if the ball hit me straight on? It might have broken my glasses and the shards may have went into my eyes. I might have not been able to see ever again. I'm not the only one who made a big mistake, okay? I know what I did was wrong, but I could have been hurt as much, or even more than he was. And honestly, I was holding back a bit. I did not nearly punch him as hard as I can, and I did it with my left hand. I became horrified when I saw the blood gushing out of his nose.</p>
<p>Um, my dad would say "you go son" if all I get is the suspension and I don't get into ANY other trouble. Breaking a nose is cool lol. Basically, you start stuff you're gonna get killed. Sorry girls :P</p>
<p>The people who think this is acceptable are really scaring me. You got hit with a ball so you broke someone's nose? You say "what if, what if..." but the ball didn't hit you straight on and didn't put shards of glass in your eye. And FredFredBurger, have you ever had your nose broken? I seriously doubt it, because it's not "cool". It hurts like a , and if you are punched at an upward angle straight-on, the blow can actually force your bone up into your brain and kill you. Think twice before you act and you won't be in this situation again.</p>
<p>are you a guy or a girl?</p>
<p>OK. Let me try to reason with you here if I was exaggerating in my last post. If someone attacks you with no provocation it is only reasonable you'll retaliate. I'm not saying oh lets go around breaking people's noses, but at least where I live if you start something you better be ready to finish it. That's life. I don't agree with him being suspended for 5 days, however I think the punishment is more of a shock factor to reduce the number of fights in schools.</p>
<p>WHen they guy threw the ball in your face, you stand up, say cut it out jerk and WALK AWAY....yep, you WALK AWAY...that is what a real man does</p>
<p>WHY did you hit him, were you in danger, or just angry....seems you were just angry and maybe embarrassed so you smashed his nose in....IF he had broken your glasses and you got class in your eye, that would have been horrible, and the kid would deserve to get punished, but NOT by you attacking him....</p>
<p>Yeah but he was not punched at an upward angle. And look, I'm not saying that the broken nose is justifiable, but him getting hurt in return is. You have no idea how that hit to my face felt like. What was I supposed to do, just sit there and look like a helpless idiot?</p>