<p>Hi,
I have withdrawn from highschool in my senior year 2008.
I was almost expelled but I had a choice to withdraw.
This was because I was involved in violating academic honesty issues.
I withdrew in mid-Apriil.
I have currently been admitted from three schools and been waitlisted from two schools. I am planning to take GED at the end of May and I think I will pass.
Here's my question. I have already informed three schools I have been accepted that I withdrew and waiting to hear their replies.
But, I do not know what to do with schools I have been waitlisted.
Beause one of the schools is my top-choice and I am worried that if my situation will reduce my chance.
is there any advice for me, please?</p>
<p>You should contact one of the admissions counselors at your top choice that waitlisted you and ask. That's the only way you will find out. Naturally one would assume that withdrawing from high school for violating academic honesty issues would reduce your chances of getting off the waitlist but really the only way you will find out for sure is if you contact the college.</p>
<p>is it better to wait and see if I get accepted by my top-choice and inform the school about my situation, or just do it now?</p>
<p>You might as well tell them now. Remember, even if you get in off the waitlist, the school will require a final transcript and proof of graduation. It'll be worse if you get in and then they rescind because you "withdrew".</p>
<p>I don't want to burst your bubble but I don't think you can get into the waitlist schools if you tell them you got expelled for academic violation issues. I think you should call up a private counselor for a consultation about this because I don't want you going in with faulty advice but I am pretty sure that if you are on the waitlist and you tell them this, you have no chance. There may be other ways to "loophole" or fudge around this while still telling the explicit truth. You just have to weigh your options- hire someone or ask for advice from a professional.</p>
<p>You withdrew from your hs in April, and you have not heard from 3 schools that have accepted you already, so which school did you put the deposit on? Would it have made more sense for you to find out which school wouldn't rescind their acceptance before you sent in your deposit? At this point I wouldn't be too concerned about your waitlisted school. I would try to get a response from those 3 schools asap.</p>
<p>I agree with oldfort.. since you were accepted to three schools, you had to have put down a deposit, right? Stick with the one you put a deposit down for and try to start over again at that school and then transfer to the one of your choice. With all of the people that are on the waitlists this year, the colleges that waitlisted you would probably rather take someone off who finished up high school without withdrawing due to an academic violation. Again, to know whether or not your situation will affect your chances of being taken off the waitlist you will have to contact them. You will have to let them know anyways so you might as well tell them now.</p>
<p>I was trying to say OP has a bigger problem than worrying about the waitlist school. He needs to find out if the school he has put the deposit on will not rescind the acceptance because of his academic dishonesty. If OP was my kid, I would have wanted to know those 3 schools' position before I sent in the deposit.</p>
<p>"I have already informed three schools I have been accepted that I withdrew and waiting to hear their replies. "</p>
<p>Three? It's May. Haven't you already said Yes to one of those schools and No to the other two?</p>
<p>I agree with the other posters, though. Stop worrying about the waitlist schools (short answer: no, you are not going to get off the waitlist once they find out you cheated and got thrown out of school) and start worrying about not being rescinded from the schools that already accepted you.</p>
<p>Not all colleges expect that May 1st decision and deposit. My daughter applied to a regional state univ. and was accepted. They won't really know if she's actually going there or not until she shows up to register for classes. Even then she won't have to put down a deposit. She can wait until the first week of classes in Sept. pay anything.</p>
<p>It's not a selective college at all, but we don't know what schools the OP is dealing with. Deposits and commitments to enroll may not be the protocol.</p>
<p>I think you've taken the right steps so far. Everyone's given great advice, but I think that having a GED and not graduating from a HS will be a biggie too. </p>
<p>So.... maybe you could "transfer" schools. Join another HS in the district or maybe out of the old district depending on the rules. Hopefully your graduation credits transfer. If they do- BAM!- HS graduation. Yes, you have the serious infraction against you, but in the very least you graduated from an actual HS, which could be the loophole you need.</p>