Suspended from Graduate school - Need desperate help (international student)

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<p>This is only getting more confusing - why is time such a factor, when cost apparently is not? The problem is that your situation is the kind that is only usually resolved by, well… time. And don’t think that going somewhere else is necessarily going to be faster - if they accept you for a different research focus you are essentially starting from scratch, and even if it is the same you may not be able to transfer all your credits. I’ve been in some tough spots academically, and this plan just feels bad to me.</p>

<p>As a side note, a 3.33 GPA in grad school is not exceptional, at many schools it is actually below average, even if they ignore the cloud of suspicion from your suspension. When you factor in selectivity, focus, and grade inflation (C is essentially a failing grade in grad school!), a 3.5 is often the average. Scary, I know, but something to bear in mind.</p>

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<p>I believe time is a factor because he wants to keep his student visa and doesn’t want to be deported. Without the visa, he can’t continue to study in the US. Without the degree, he can’t get a job anywhere. According to my EE husband, he won’t be able to get a job in the US with this history.</p>

<p>I agree with @cosmic fish, if you were, by some miracle admitted to another American university, how would you think that you wouldn’t have to restart a program? The universities talk to each other. They keep records requests. </p>

<p>I think you are desperate to game the system again by trying to get into a program, at any and all costs; isn’t this what got you into trouble in the first place?</p>

<p>The posters here are trying to tell you to deal first with your university. That’s called integrity. Get some or, for the rest of your life, you will never achieve satisfaction.</p>

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<p>If you are just trying to keep your student visa, that may be a different issue. You could investigate non-matriculant status at a Cal State or UC “Open University” programs, or do courses through university extension. At a Master’s level, some of the classes may even transfer into your program once your probation is lifted.</p>

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<p>Probably any college that accepts you will know that you have attended and suspended from your current college because of your visa history. The Designated School of Official (DSO) of the new school probably will contact your current school DSO in order to issue a new I-20 form for your F1 visa. And your current school DSO has the responsility to inform the Homeland Department about your status.</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.ice.gov/sevis/dso-requirements[/url]”>https://www.ice.gov/sevis/dso-requirements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/three-things-foreign-student-dso-hates-hear-youve-done.html[/url]”>http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/three-things-foreign-student-dso-hates-hear-youve-done.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Furthermore, any decent Electrical Engineering department will not be able to give you an acceptance within a month.</p>

<p>The “Open University” or “University Extension” programs cannot issue an I-20 form.</p>

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<p>try ashford university. its all online and they take anyone. getting suspended for “academic misconduct” doesn’t happen because of “one little mistake.” you did something serious. go home. deal with it. can’t do the time dont do the crime.</p>

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<p>Yeah, but in my comment I suggested that s/he go back home for a year and then return to finish at her/his program. Then s/he wouldn’t run the risk of being deported at all. So I am curious to know why OP doesn’t have the time to wait, in his/her words.</p>

<p>I don’t have direct experience with this, but as far as I know the F-1 visa is for full-time, degree-seeking students. Taking a couple of classes at an extension school or a for-profit online program, or registering in non-matriculant status at a public university, won’t cut it.</p>

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<p>What was the “one little mistake”? </p>

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<p>I attended a very elite program, which shall remain nameless, long, long ago, following my undergraduate degree. There were about 20 of us in the program. Three were international students – from Italy. They cheated ALL the time. They OPENLY cheated – I mean, openly to the rest of us students, not to the instructors or staff. I was appalled. Most of us came from schools with strict honor programs that we … honored. If anybody I knew DID cheat, they certainly would not have boasted about it!</p>

<p>One day, when the Italian students were laughing and boasting to a group of us about their latest cheating escapades, I told them that most of us didn’t find it funny at all. I told them that in this country, we frown on dishonesty, including cheating. (It’s hard to have credibility behind that statement these days with all the evident dishonesty in our politics, our corporations, etc, but I digress.) Anyway, they responded to my comments with laughter and a little surprise. It was all a joke to them.</p>

<p>They told me that in their country, cheating and dishonesty to get to the top was actually kind of admired. They said that if one is clever enough to creatively cheat, and get away with it and rise to the top, that person is admired. I have no idea if they were telling us the truth that day. I have wondered if maybe THEY, specifically, were admired in Italy for some other reason, even if their culture as a whole doesn’t admire dishonesty, and if they misread that as an admiration for their “dishonesty skills.” I have also wondered if the culture as a whole DOES admire dishonesty. Two of the three weren’t very good at what we were all there to do. How did they qualify for their coveted spots? I wondered if they got there by cheating when they were students in Italy (probably). I was just bewildered about the whole thing. I still am. And this was more than 30 years ago.</p>

<p>Can a country, as a whole, admire dishonesty as long as it’s done “cleverly?” If so, perhaps what we have here, on this thread, is an example of cultural differences. That’s no excuse, mind you. When in Rome … </p>

<p>But, perhaps you are not aware, thanksipi, that dishonesty in US schools is generally not quite considered “one mistake.” It takes a willful and conscious disregard of the rules, and of what most of us in the US consider <em>morals</em>, to commit “academic misconduct.” And because it takes a willful and conscious disregard, it’s not really considered by most <em>here in the US</em> to be a mere “mistake.” It speaks to your character in our country. And that’s a “mistake” you don’t want to make. </p>

<p>Sorry, I have no advise to offer other than to refrain from piling mistakes upon mistakes. Honesty is the best policy in your next step forward.</p>