<p>The Situation:</p>
<p>1 day Out-Of-School suspension for Academic Dishonesty (Altering records spec. report card for parents, lying to Guidance Counselor about this situation, parents discovering such dishonesty and contacting the school)</p>
<p>How would one go about reporting this situation? Is there any legal way to avoid reporting this situation to colleges? </p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>Lexis</p>
<p>No, there's no real way to avoid reporting it. In any case, your school would include it on the form that your guidance counsellor has to complete which goes along with the transcript.</p>
<p>I have no idea what kind of impact it will have in admissions but not reporting it would be a mistake.</p>
<p>You have to report it. Write an extended statement explaining the situation, detailing your mistakes and explaining how you were wrong and what you learned from the situtation and you might be okay.</p>
<p>Why would your parents tell the school and hurt your chances at colege admissions? When it seems like they want you to do well but at the same time blatently bring the school into a situation that could be handled between you and your parents. </p>
<p>And yes, Don't try to justify your actions but rather explain what you did and how wrong it was and what you learned from it on your app, or through your GC></p>
<p>If your school doesn't include it on your transcript you can probably get away with it.</p>
<p>my school has a one-time forgiveness thing. see if thees anything of that nature.</p>
<p>apply, report it, play it straight. dont try to give half-hearted explainations justifing yourself, say everything exactly how it occured and state how this experience has impacted you. make sure its a positive impact.</p>
<p>My school doens't include it on the transcript, but on the app it says if I've ever been suspended, to respond "Yes" and provide an explanation.</p>
<p>It asks the same thing of my guidance counselor. </p>
<p>No worries, I'll just play it straight. It's a crappy thing to happen for sure, but I'll try and be as honest and articulate as possible and try and make the best come out of it.</p>
<p>Plus my guidance counselor really likes me regardless.</p>
<p>Yeah, I honestly don't feel that it'll be a make/break situation (Tell me if you think otherwise, I'm interested to know.) I made a mistake, I learned my lesson, I felt (and still feel) like an idiot.</p>
<p>Believe me when I say NYU can be pretty darn forgiving when it comes to making stupid mistakes that can cause you to come across as a dishonest person.</p>
<p>Yes, still apply.</p>
<p>If your school doesn't put it on your transcript, then why put it on your application? Let's be honest here, 95% of the people lie or exxagerate on their application (which ****es me off when a kid much below me in rank, sat, and EC's gets into yale). All your friends are going to invent EC's, awards, fake stories for essay, etc. I didn't need to, but many of my friends did, and thats an unfortunate side effect of cut-throat competition and admissions officers too lazy to actually do something as simple as confirm with guidance counselors... take advanatge of the situation. I hope someone from NYU does read this because I know of several people at NYU who got there through gross lies on their application, they're my friends and I'm not going to rat them out, but for something as important as college admissions they should really verify the credentials of acceptees.</p>
<p>To all of you saying it won't be on his transcript, while that is probably true, on the guidance counselor section it asks if the student has been suspended.</p>
<p>Yes, definitely note it with all honesty, but show that you understand that cheating is wrong and that you have no intention to repeat that mistake. If they think you don't care about cheating, you might as well burn your application to save them the trouble of throwing it away.</p>
<p>While studying abroad, I became friends with a girl who was arrested on a number of misdemeanor charges. On her app, she completely owned up to all her mistakes and showed that she'd changed for the better by writing about her experiences in court, counseling, and volunteer work. She got into law school this year and is currently working as a paralegal. So there's life after trouble, as long as you prove you've gotten over it. :)</p>
<p>I don't know how to qualify the incident actually. I didn't report false scores to anyone besides my parents, every program I applied to got my actual transcript, which is verifiable since my school sends it (I never get to see it,) so I don't know if this incident constitutes "defacement of school property" or "forgery" or whatever. </p>
<p>I didn't cheat/plagarize (Never have, never will) so I don't know how this kind of behavior is regarded by the admissions board. I'm not going to put this into my essay, but I know a majority of kids around my age (17) lie to their parents, probably not to the same extent I did, but still.</p>
<p>I also don't know if this sort of incident puts all the ECs I've applied for and gotten accepted to to waste, assuming the admissions board operates under the assumption that, since I did so for my parents, I falsified records for other programs that I applied to (Which I did not, as proven by reason provided above.)</p>
<p>talk to your guidance counselor and see if you can get the record expunged. Alot of times, they will basically take it off your permanent record as if it has never existed, and thus you dont have to report it (that is if your school even sends it in the first place). </p>
<p>Suck up to guidance counselor.</p>
<p>Well my friend got suspended three times this year (once for riding around X High School's parking lot on the back of a truck while holding the sign "I hate attending X High School." The second was when he randomly ran into an English class and started throwing erasers and chalk at the teacher. The last was when he sprayed whipped cream over dozens of people in the hall. He got into USC.</p>
<p>ahahha sounds like a fun friend!</p>