<p>I have been suspended from a graduate school in my third semester for one year, and I am an international student with F1 visa status. Is there a way I can enroll in some other graduate school to keep my visa status ? If i apply to any other college, will they accept my application? or does they need a conduct clearing letter ? are there any colleges that accept suspended students? My suspension still has time before my college takes me out of their system. But, I have very less time to keep my visa status. Please let me know all the possible options I have now. I am desperate for help. </p>
<p>Was the suspension for academic reasons of behavioral reasons?</p>
<p>the suspension was from academic reasons(academic misconduct)</p>
<p>You need to ask your current graduate school if you are allowed to enroll in a different school first. You could be kicked out for good if you don’t check.</p>
<p>Do other grad programs require you be eligible to attend your current grad program academically, discipline-wise, and financially, in order to apply to the new program? </p>
<p>kicked out from my present school or the one I am trying to apply ?</p>
<p>from you present school.</p>
<p>okay, thank you, I will ask them asap.</p>
<p>if I am transferring, schools may or may not transfer my present program courses. what can i expect if i apply without letting them know my suspension ?</p>
<p>damn dude good luck! </p>
<p>When you enroll at a university, they typically have you sign an “honesty/integrity” policy. You’re signing that everything is a true statement on your application, as well as stating that you will practice academic integrity. If you attempt to go to another university without telling the truth, they will rescind/reject you and will let other universities know. </p>
<p>You’ve been given a visa to attend a university. Just because you don’t want to go home, to your country, doesn’t mean that you get to stay here. You are a guest of the U.S., and, as such, you don’t get to make your own rules to stay. If your plan was to just stay here forever, then you lied to immigration. </p>
<p>You need to deal with your suspension at your university because no one knows how they will approach your immigration status. </p>
<p>I am not trying to stay here forever, I just want to complete my studies here. After all the efforts and the tuition expenses, I can’t leave without a degree. I need a way out.</p>
<p>There are no serious graduate schools that will consider your application in a short time. They usually take several months to consider applications for the next year. Some for-profit schools may accept you for the next semester to get your money but you won’t learn much. You must send all your transcripts and let the new schools know that you are suspended by the present school. If not, you will commit a second academic dishonesty and they will rescind any degree you may earn.</p>
<p>It’s better for you to go home and come back after the suspension. You already completed 2 semesters there, why bother to spend time and money in another school?</p>
<p>Are you afraid to go home because you don’t want your family members to know? You should let them know.</p>
<p>I would not recommend going after another graduate program - it would be exceptionally difficult, nigh impossible, to find one that would accept you quickly enough or while under suspension, much less both. Plus, it is likely that the costs and delays associated with doing so would be comparable to those associated with your current program and situation.</p>
<p>I think the first thing you should do is talk to your current program. Knowing your visa status, they may be able to work with you to find some way for you to stay in the US and at that school.</p>
<p>Failing that, your next best option is… go home. Come back in a year. However problematic that may be, if your school will not work with you then there isn’t really anything else you can do.</p>
<p>my suspension still has a month left to get activated. I will take my chances to get into another college “honestly”. Please let me know any colleges that can accept my application (Masters). </p>
<p>Even if you apply to another school, there will still be a question on the application asking if you had any academic probation, misconduct, dishonesty etc. You still have to answer that question. Not knowing what your major is and what you did isn`t helpful. If anything, you should first talk to your school or advisor. Might as well let your family know too.</p>
<p>I referred my case outcome to my university’s hearing panel, I might get lesser punishment in time being. I will state my suspension while applying to other college, my question is will it be the only factor for considering my application ? I have good academics so far, 3.6 cgpa in my undergraduate, and 3.33 in graduate school so far. I am from electrical engineering.</p>
<p>It’s not the only factor but if whatever you did has anything to do with cheating, plagiarism, or anything in that vein then it will be treated seriously by most reputable schools. The thing about cheating is that it doesn’t just affect you or even just your class, it affects the reputation of the school. If people cheat their way to into a degree it makes the degrees that the school offers to graduates have less value. That’s why most schools are so tough on it – they are looking out for their own reputation as well as that of their students.</p>
<p>The fact that you have a good GPA now is great, but if you think about it – what is to stop the admissions committee at the new school from inferring that you got the way you were because of cheating?? That’s kind of the main obstacle here – the infraction itself PLUS the fact that it calls into your question everything else you have done in college, even if this was actually your only time ever cheating.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that you are screwed or anything, I just want to say that this is tough situation and your actions have inflicted on you a disadvantage.</p>
<p>You say that one of the reasons you don’t want to return is because of the tuition expenses. Any school that will accept you in enough time for you to continue your visa status (and that will accept you despite the very recent academic misconduct charge) is very unlikely to give you financial aid to stay. How on earth are you going to pay to remain a graduate student here while you wait out your suspension? It would be cheaper for you to go home and wait out your suspension than to pay for a whole year of graduate school.</p>
<p>@DmitriR you are right, thanks for the information.</p>
<p>@juillet i am only concerned of completing my degree, does not matter where i did it from anymore. I am already out from a good school just because of one mistake and I do not need financial aid. I don’t have it here either. Who will care a person if he steps out without completing a degree when looking for a job. The main factor is ‘time’ here, I don’t have an year to wait and then come back to finish.</p>