I violated a school rule and got suspended... Should I still bother to apply to QB?

Paying for College Access Programs (Questbridge, Posse)
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<p>I come from a low-income family with 4 kids. We have always received free/reduced lunch, SAT/ACT fee waivers, and college application waivers. I do okay in school, take AP's, I'm in the top 10% of my class and got a 1930 on the SAT. I also work a part-time job during the school year, was officer of a club and participated in various extra-curricular activities.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, my junior year I made a grave mistake. I changed my school attendance records, got caught and written up. I have a referral titled "Falsifying School Records/Documents", got suspended from school for 2 days and in-school-suspension for an entire week. I've been getting emails from Questbridge, decided to start on my application and saw that they require me to tell them whether or not I've violated an honor code/got suspended from school.</p>

<p>Is this a total dealbreaker for Questbridge? I don't want to go through all of the documents and ask teachers and counselors for recommendation when it's all going to go down the drain because of my dumb mistake last year. Any opinions or advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!</p>

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<p>That’s a pretty huge violation… to actually change documents provided you are not part of the administration… I don’t think this really has any conflict with the whole “Low income, high achieving” standards… but they will probably look down on you, seeing they don’t want this to happen again at a university </p>

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<p>I mean your chances at most schools are going to be fairly lower… That’s a huge violation and it’s going to affect any application, not just questbridge. </p>