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<p>When applying to grad schools, one is generally expected to list all previous colleges and universities attended and to send transcripts from them.
I did that, and have no problem with it so far, but I do wonder...</p>

<p>If you were to not list one of the schools you attended and to also not send transcripts from that school, to basically pretend you never attended that school, could you get away with that?<br>
As an example, let's say that after undergrad you were to do an M.S. in field X and to really struggle yet to manage to get through. You start on an M.S. in field Y and do really well, and even decide to go for a Ph.D. in field Y. However, when applying to Ph.D. programs in field Y, you decide you really don't want to send your transcripts from your first M.S. in field X because you don't think that would help you get into a Ph.D. program, and besides, you reason, field X is unrelated to field Y anyway.
Could you do that? Could it potentially cause trouble? If you were to get accepted into a Ph.D. program for field Y and if the school/department were to later find out about your degree in field X and the fact that you hadn't disclosed that, what would most likely happen? Could they kick you out?</p>

<p>I have a friend who didn't send in transcripts from one of the schools he attended because he got poor grades there. No one found out, and he doesn't seem to think there's anything wrong with that.
I don't know if I'll ever be in a situation where I'd be likely to want to do that, but just in case, I'd like a little more info about how schools deal with that.</p>

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<p>yes you could get away with that -- if schools sometimes do not check if you have earned a degree at all, then surely you can get away with this too -- one of profs at my university never received a PhD -- he was discovered only like 15 years later and had to resign ... then there is the radioshack ceo</p>

<p>not mentioning a program you attended may carry serious repercussions -- first, you have to somehow account for the time spent in the program you did not mention -- otherwise people might get suspicious -- second, some programs say it is violation of their "academic code of ethics" to not give all transcripts -- the penalty for it would be denial of admission or dismissal from school -- so yes, they will most definitely kick you out</p>

<p>so if you did not do great in program X but then succeeded in pogram Y, why would you want to have a career can now be compromised by not listing program X? -- if you already demonstrated success, and if X is unrelated to Y, then it should not be a major concern -- admissions committees go over hundreds of applications in a short period of time -- most likely people won't even take their time to inspect something unrelated to one's admission</p>