<p>So lets say high school....I went through a lot of crap...and got suspended for 1 semester.
My current gpa at a cc is 3.67 and the school I want to get into is asking if I have ever been suspended.
When I look at my high school transcript, nothing indicates that I got suspended.....and I dont want to hurt my chances into getting in the school...
shall i be honest or hope they dont find out?
also how bad do schools look at suspensions?</p>
<p>They know teens can make mistakes. Generally, they’re willing to overlook stuff (even suspensions) people are up front about (unless they were major). But they won’t overlook fraudulent claims of “nothing happened”. If found out, your degree will be rescinded and you can be held liable for any Fin Aid you accepted (under fraudulent terms).</p>
<p>Let me ask: do you think the suspension was fair? Your words " I went through a lot of crap" is not the same as “I did some stupid stuff and got suspended”.</p>
<p>How does your transcript not show the gap?</p>
<p>Because I had to go to a different school for that semester…
Lets just say I took a teachers car for a joyride… I was 15yo…lol</p>
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<p>I’d say that you are lucky to only have been suspended for one semester</p>
<p>Dont kids make bad mistakes… =[
I learned from it…lets just say I was starving, cold, alone…in an area where kids were driving new BMWs once they turned 16.</p>
<p>Did you take the teacher’s car because you were ****ed off at your affluent classmates? Or because you were homeless (I’m assuming that is the cause for being “starving, cold, alone”) and needed a warm place to stay in and maybe get away in? If the former, that’s just not on. If the latter, the college might even feel sorry for you if you fess up. Whatever the case, honesty is the best policy. :)</p>
<p>btw during my suspension, I got pretty much all A’s at a school that was all independent study… Its not on my transcript…so shall I lie?</p>
<p>“I took a teachers car for a joyride” your lucky you didn’t get sent to jail kid. You should be sent to jail no matter how young you were.</p>
<p>No, don’t lie. Your counselor will have to address this too. The one term school switch will also make it obvious, colleges know what it means.</p>
<p>Yeah you’re screwed, that’s why you think ahead before you do stupid stuff like that.</p>
<p>If I were the teacher I would’ve made sure you were expelled and jailed.</p>
<p>Actually, your story sounds like a good essay. It could be risky, but if you make it so that you prevailed over your mistake and applied yourself elsewhere (as well as learned a lesson), I think it makes an interesting story.</p>
<p>Don’t lie, doesn’t your counselor have notification of the previous offenses? If so, it could easily be sent to the colleges you applied to anyway.</p>
<p>Don’t mean to hijack, but my sone got suspended in 8th grade for “pantsing” someone. It was in 8yh grade but the application asks for suspension from ANY school. He fessed up, but I’m wondering how bad that is. Sure looks okay next to the OP’s…</p>
<p>You made a very bad choice. If you have grown and learned from it (which I can’t see the evidence for since you seem to be asking for permission to lie about it) you should come clean about your past. If you don’t you will never truly feel that you belong there even if you are admitted - a part of you will always wonder if they’d have taken you if they knew the whole story.</p>
<p>If you lie, then you have to sign the paper that says you swear everything in your application is true. Even if they find out about this after you graduate, they will take your diploma for academic dishonesty. Just tell the truth in a more contrite and enlightened way than you are right now…and make sure you have a lot of academic safeties on your “list,” because, unfortunately, it might ding you at a place or two.</p>
<p>But you can’t lie and get away with it. When you sign the paper??? You’re on the hook. Not kid-style on the hook, but grown up style. Sorry you were cold and hungry and lonely enough to feel like this was the best solution you could come up with at the time. I’d just put it in terms of your desperation. Adcoms can be compassionate, too, especially if you take responsibility.</p>
<p>Don’t lie. Own up to it. A lot of kids make mistakes that go on your record. Colleges see that every year. The problem you have is that your posts seem to indicate that you do not think it was such a big deal. “Let’s just say the other kids got fancy cars when they turned 16. . .” “Let’s just say it was a joy ride.” Doesn’t sound like a student I would want on my campus. Your grades are good, so you are not stupid, so what’s the deal? Why do you not get it?</p>
<p>shamelessness is frequently a defense mechanism against deep shame. I can hear the shame in every response. From the not having money shame right on down the line to what he did. He feels it.</p>
<p>well I mean the economic duress is a pathetic excuse in a way…but you guys wont know until you even put yourself in my shoes.<br>
Regardless, I didn’t mean to take a teachers car…I just found a set of keys and decided instead of walking 2 hrs back home, Id drive myself home…
Btw, I searched the huge parking lot for the car pressing the panic button…As soon as I was about to give up I decided to press the unlock button…and the car was RIGHT NEXT TO ME…That was fate…a calling… I just had to. Dumb choice…but back then I lived by weird coincidences…</p>
<p>I think thats rilly funny! Especially since they kicked you out for a whole half of a year and they didn’t record it. But if it was for three days it would be on there. See, people who do rilly bad things get away with it like class clowns do. What I would do if I were you is to not tell them and hope they dont find out. I don’t think they will.
I think thats kind of funny that you stole your teachers car. If the teacher left their keys where you could get them it was their fault anyway and they should get in trouble for leaving them where you could get them. How did you know how to drive? Isn’t it kind of hard?</p>
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@ OP, I DO NOT suggest you lie. If they find out, ( and boy, do colleges have ways of finding out) you will be expelled and blacklisted. Besides, it was HS. since you improved after that, colleges may be more lenient towards you, and see you as a more mature person.</p>