<p>I was recently accepted to Stanford. However, a few weeks ago, I was kicked off of my school basketball team for arguing with a ref. This was very unlike me and everything in my record supports that this was completely out of character. There are also people like my principal and coach who would support the fact that I would be good at the college. Is this a big deal for Stanford? What are the chances of my admission offer being rescinded?</p>
<p>I too would like to know more about this. What are some examples of behavior that would result in rescindment?</p>
<p>Who did the kicking off? The school or the ref/league?</p>
<p>I think you’ll be fine. Just my gut instinct.</p>
<p>If basketball was a big part of your application, where you may play at stanford/be recruited then maybe, but otherwise, they dont’ really care and i don’t think you have to report it.</p>
<p>@Renais: The league did the disciplining. My school actually appealed the decision to try to help me.</p>
<p>@Senior0991: Thanks. I sure hope so.</p>
<p>@wahine1314: Basketball was a part of my application, but I definitely will not be playing Varsity basketball at Stanford. Some type of club or intramural is as high as I can get. Would my guidance counselor report this on my end of the year report, or is it not that big of a deal?</p>
<p>If you’re not a recruited athlete, it didn’t involve the cops, and your school doesn’t care, then seriously, forget it.</p>
<p>@roble80</p>
<p>It’s not that my school doesn’t care, it’s that they defended me when the basketball league tried to punish me. If my school reported this incident, would Stanford care? Would my school even report this?</p>
<p>If you really must feel the urge to, go ahead and do so. However, expect something along the lines of “Thank you, however there is no need to update us on issues liek this. Unless we admitted you as a recruited/dedicated athlete or your grades have changed significantly.”</p>
<p>It’s not that I feel I have to report the incident, it’s that I’m afraid my school will. Would my school even report something like this? Even if they do, everyone thinks that it won’t be a big deal?</p>
<p>i doubt so, shouldn’t ur school have bigger things to worry bout.</p>
<p>Stan14 - One thing is for sure…if they find out about it from ANYONE other than you - counselor, coach, teammate, friend, enemy, jealous parent of a denied applicant, opposing player, THE REF - ANYONE but you, the punishment will be worse. Tell them now. Everything. You know it is the right thing to do. If you don’t tell them you open yourself up to more questions about your character, and you deserve whatever happens to you. Tell them now and it will likely be nothing.</p>
<p>It’s very very rare to get your admission rescinded: they picked you because they want you and they’re too confident in their process to change their decisions willy-nilly. The only case I’ve heard is a kid who failed all his classes he didn’t need to graduate. That being said, don’t do anything stupid: you worked hard for four years, you can wait a few months until summer to let loose.</p>
<p>I doubt Stanford will care about your expulsion from the team. However, if it worries you, just email them and say exactly what you said here, with the same sincerity and contrition. Like lerkerman said, its certainly better for you to tell them than for anyone else to.</p>
<p>What is strange is the severity of the punishment. Even foul language usually only gets you booted from the game and maybe a suspension from play for a couple of games. But off the team? Hmmm. I dont know what happened. If you touched the referee and he accused you of assault that is different. Colleges will react strongly to allegations of assault. </p>
<p>Other than that, I don’t think its that big a deal so long as it didnt include any moral turpitude, criminal conduct, suspension from school, integrity issues like cheating and if it wont be on your transcript. If your school says nothing in their final grade report/transcript to Stanford, then let it go and move along. Lesson learned.</p>
<p>Referees have the power to stop a game, call the police and have players, coaches and fans evicted from a game, and to make reports to league offices about incidents. They are the “police” at the game for conduct relating to the game. Refs have stopped games and evicted loud fans, and even called a game forfeited for the same thing. The home team is responsible for fans. </p>
<p>Welcome to the adult world.</p>
<p>Bad news, Stan14… they likely already know. It gets good at post #39. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/637097-letter-regional-director-ea-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/637097-letter-regional-director-ea-3.html</a></p>
<p>Time to fess up.</p>
<p>@ghostbuster: What happened was that the league had a lot of leeway in making the decision. The rulebook was worded very vaguely which allowed the league to interpret it any way it wanted. I was suspended for using foul language. However, there was a question as to if I pushed the referee. On that issue, it was decided that the evidence and video was inconclusive, so the official reason given for the suspension was that I disrespected an official. Nobody said anything about assault and the police was never involved. Does that shed more light on the situation?</p>