<p>A friend of mine submitted his ED app a few days ago but this weekend was our homecoming and he went on a "party bus" that had alcohol on it. The cops came on and what not, and a few people, potentially him, are going to receive 10 day suspensions, or 5 day suspensions with an alcohol rehab program.</p>
<p>This whole things been eating at him all weekend as he doesn't know whether or not he has completely destroyed his chances. His app was solid, with two great recs, an awesome essay, great SAT and ACT scores, and the top 2% of the class of 600.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how much weight a suspension would have on his app? He is really hoping it doesn't matter because he already submitted his app, but both he and I are sure there will be some repercussions.</p>
<p>The only thing that'll make a difference in your application is if your school sends a letter or a supplemental filing along with your School Report (i.e. your transcript), indicating that you've been involved in academic discipline. If your transcript / school report has already gone out, they'd have to be pretty vindictive for it to affect you.</p>
<p>Now, if you end up with a criminal record because of this, that's a different matter, but it sounds like the cops limited it to telling your parents and your school. (although god knows why the cops are telling your school on you - it's either a legal matter or it's not, but in either case it's not an academic matter). If the school is playing hardball with you, you have a fair case to make that the incident in question occurred off school grounds, not during school time, not on school property, and did not affect the academic atmosphere - so they have ABSOLUTELY NO GROUNDS on which to suspend you. They're not a legal authority, and they're not your mommy. You can take it on the chin if you want, but if they're really going to screw you, you can fight back rather easily.</p>
<p>I'm sending my transcripts out this week along with everything else, but I ordered them last week, so I am hoping they won't reflect this. </p>
<p>Also, the bus was on at the school for the dance when it got stopped. I know it was stupid to even think about bringing alcohol onto school property, but I really had no part in it.</p>
<p>well, fine, if they make it an issue with regard to what the school is sending to Columbia, get your parents (And/or lawyers) involved ASAP. If the school isn't going to make a big deal of it, then whatever, move along.</p>
<p>Figuring out whether the school is going to disclose that info is very important. For that purpose, it's reasonable to schedule 5-10 mins of the Principal's or Vice Principal's time, explain your situation (if they're not already quite aware), and ask how the school intends to proceed with respect to your Secondary School Reports being sent to colleges. Ask them to please be very specific. If you're polite and mature in the conversation, and admit fault up front, they should have no reason to want to screw you. If they say "well of course any issue that results in a suspension should go on a secondary school report, there's nothing we can do about that", THAT's when you bring in the cavalry.</p>
<p>Tomorrow I have a meeting with one of the assistant principal and my mother spoke with the principal today. I'll bring up the issue then and see how it goes.</p>
<p>good luck! </p>
<p>And I love how the OP began writing in 3rd person and then switched to 1st person after Denz basically assumed the OP was the culprit :P</p>
<p>LOL nice catch, cerberus..</p>
<p>No idea what you're talking about :-)</p>
<p>I'm going in at 10 to talk with the AP. We'll see how it goes..</p>