<p>I was just wondering because you already know "So Authentic"..he likes to ponder more than everybody else!!.....if you got suspended from a school && lets say the suspension was expunged from your record do you still check yes on your college applications or just act oblivious to it && check "NO"..because we alll know lying is a nono but still...I want to kno who lied but still got away with it...like how do they find out this stuff....I'm still a good student sooo ummmm the suspension is nothing.....</p>
<p>LOLOL...wow first person to actually encourage me to lie.....ummm its kind of embarrasing why i got suspended.....but some kid && I were play fighting and accidentally crashed into the teachers lounge(( which is strictly forbidden to students)) therefore we both received a two day suspension....sucks huh?</p>
<p>LOL! If it was expunged then check no. You aren't lying when you say that, because expunging the record's purpose is so that you don't have to acknowledge it later in life.</p>
<p>OMFG...you guys are making me feel good...LMFAOO.....no more worries....now theres no excuse for Columbia rejecting me
well except the nasty regents scores.....but who cares about them</p>
<p>I'm not trying to give you a hard time at all, but what is up with two &'s instead of just one? Does it mean something different if there is two?</p>
<p>ummmm thats just how I write.........same way people replace e with thr33 in some wordas and how you write LOL rather than ((laughing out loud))...yeah</p>
<p>"Is there a suspension or explusion on the record that we will see"</p>
<p>so to check "No" would be lying.</p>
<p>However, for the most part, these things blow over really easily, especially with written supplement. What does not blow over easily, is lying on an application. (Marilee Jones anyone?) I would strongly encourage you to check yes, and then send a supplement (perhaps even along with someone from the school) explaining what happened. Since the incident wasn't a big deal, it will be harmless to your application, and you won't have to worry about being caught up in a lie (much worse).</p>
<p>My son screwed up a little fresh and sophomore years and ended up with 3 or 4 suspensions for minor stuff. Luckily the school expunged them when he applied to college but not before he had mentioned them in an interview for Syracuse because CC advice said if you have suspensions mention them. He was very self conscious talking about them in his interview -- needless to say. Long story short after he learned that his high school would expunge them, he never mentioned them again and got into a lot of good schools including his first choice. As fate would have it, Syracuse, which was a a safety only admitted him only to the school of human services even though his stats were way above the median for Syracuse. So my advice to you is if your school has already made the decision to expunge your suspensions, don't mention them. Sometimes kids make mistakes and they could use a second chance.</p>
<p>Yeah but its not about mentioning them
On the application...even common application they blatantly ask you ...have you been the subject to any disciplinary action or been suspended from school.....soooo..it gets hard trying to decide what to check off</p>
<p>Sorry if I was unclear. On his college applications he checked off that he never was suspended. There is I suppose a small risk that the college might check with the school and the school might say you were suspended but if it was cleared from your record, I doubt that would happen. In my son's case, the guidance counselor indicated that expunged meant it wasn't going to mentioned on college apps. That was the point, the high school didn't want to see kids who turned things around, hurt by early minor mistakes.</p>
<p>Ask your guidance counselor. Mine told me that she wouldn't tell the colleges even if they asked because it was a one-time thing early in freshman year.</p>
<p>So Authentic - brassmonkey is wrong in this instance. The whole point of expunging is that it's wiped clean. You never have to mention it again, you never have to acknowledge it, and you never have to admit that you were suspended because in the eyes of your school, you never were. This is an area where brutal honesty will hurt you badly. You aren't hurting anyone by checking no, the school just wants to know you're not the kind of kid who cherrybombs their toilets every weekend. While I don't advocate lying (and this doesn't even really qualify as that anyway), screwing yourself over to settle a tiny moral qualm won't console you if the next four years of your life are "What if I didn't check off that stupid box".</p>
<p>Also - there's no way the college can know because even if they checked your school would say that no, you never were suspended since it's not on record anymore.</p>
<p>Great Great....but Collectivsynergy.....I don't mean to kind of contradict what you just said or be defensive..........But the applicATION did ask "were you ever the subject of suspension or disciplinary action"...they never asked "Is there a suspension on your permanent record"?.....&& those two question are totally different........braassmonkey is kind of right because its unethical in a way.........but it seems like you have a much stronger argument........IDK....im just baffled right now</p>
<p>When were you suspended? Do the teachers you're asking for letter of recs know you were suspended? Because if the answers are junior year and "yes" you may want to speak with those teachers about if they will mention it in your letter of rec. Though I'm pretty sure your GC will say "no" the colleges will realize what happened if a letter of rec says "SoAuthentic is truly a well-behaved student despite his suspension..." However if the suspension happened freshman year and your teachers don't know it was you, do yourself a favor and check "no". The suspension will probably screw you over for elite admissions and a bit of tier 2 colleges.</p>
<p>50/50....It happened Freshman but only a few teachers knew.....&& the teachers I plan on asking for recommendations adore me....so0o0o0o0......but what kind of silly teacher mentions a suspension on your recc...especially one that happened 9th grade.....then thats not a nice teacher....&& you shouldn't consider going to her/him in the first place</p>
<p>Think about it this way. If you check yes, then in effect the expunging didn't do anything at all, which is clearly not what you school intended since they viewed it as a very minor infraction and didn't warrant extra punishment particularly for college apps.</p>
<p>True...got a point there.....don't get me wrong im more bent on checking "NO" than "YES"....as every other student im sure......but i just don't want 2 face a rejection solely because of that.....</p>