<p>I was suspended on the last day of freshman year because of a mini water fight at our school cafeteria table. A teacher decided to interfere and send 2 / 6 of us to the dean's office. This happened 2nd to last day. After that, I wanted to talk to the principal about how unfair this suspension is. He said he would take this off my record, but just in case he didn't, would this affect my chances of applying to colleges?</p>
<p>You should talk to your counselor and see if the incident was taken off the record. </p>
<p>I do not believe that suspension of this sort would affect your college prospects, but if it is on your record, and you do not disclose it, it can derail your applications.</p>
<p>If it is taken off the records, do I still need to say that I was suspended on the application? Would the counselor mention that to colleges?</p>
<p>You have to talk to your counselor and find out how this will be handled by the school.</p>
<p>If this is going to be disclosed by the school, you could write quite a humorous explanation about a water fight. No college would take this seriously. They are concerned about suspensions for violence, breaking the law, etc., but not about a water fight.</p>
<p>next year, keep the super-soaker at home. LOL</p>
<p>And steer clear of any other lamebrain “cute” things that you and your buddies come up with. One ding is a mistake; two dings shows a serious lack of judgment.</p>
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<p>I’d be with you if he’d been suspended for cheating, bullying, or a host of other different problems, but a mini water fight with friends? The real lack of judgement here is on the school’s part. They should’ve required the kids clean up their mess and that was it. </p>
<p>The amazing part is that high school students get cracked down for this kind of thing (remember the girl accused of “vandalism” for writing on her desk WITH A DRY ERASE MARKER), but the more mature college students are free to cut loose. There’s a club on my campus for playing “zombie vs human”, where students run around “shooting” each other with Nerf guns or trying to “eat” each other (if they’re zombies.) Meanwhile grade schools toss out kids for bringing a GI Joe gun to class because the one inch plastic accessory is a “weapon.” We live in a crazy world.</p>
<p>This is very normal behavior and will not affect your admission chances at all. See if it is on your record and if it is, give a short explanation. It is extremely minor and happened freshman year. It is a non-event as far as admissions.</p>
<p>hah, it wasn’t even a super-soaker. it was from a water bottle… I guess the teacher there had no sense of humor at all…</p>
<p>^^^^Do follow up with the school, but I doubt you have anything to worry about. I’m a “rules person” and even I think this is no biggie.:)</p>
<p>The school has put him on notice with a slap upside the head–Pranks are NOT appreciated. If he should pull another prank, sorry–I think that would show poor judgment.</p>
<p>how is it a prank if the people at our table were just messing with water? not like we did anything big…</p>
<p>ellemenope- I assume you aren’t the parent of a boy. This is nothing. They were horsing around. It is normal and expected. Inappropriate- yes, somewhat, but the punishment was absurd.</p>
<p>Not saying this is true of the OP, but suppose the teacher told the kids to knock it off and 4 of them simply stopped and the 2 sent to the dean’s office mouthed off because it wasn’t “anything big”? I do find it odd if they were suspended for “just” a water fight. Maybe there’s more to the story. Maybe the school did overreact. Who knows.
But regardless, I think that lying on the application would not be a good thing even if the college would have no way of knowing. It sets a poor ethical precedent.</p>
<p>I agree that it is nothing, but if your school suspends people for this, they might do it again. Have your water fights somewhere else.</p>