<p>i'm currently a sophomore and a rising junior. I live in a urban area and during my freshman year I was forced to go to a poor intercity school. The classes were basically crowd control. So a quarter in, I transfered to a rich suburban school using my godparent's address. I was wondering when I do college apps what I should do and what I should tell my counselors...etc. Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>Isn’t that illegal?</p>
<p>Yeeeeeah, I wouldn’t post that on the internet. You should tell your counselors that you moved schools using your godparents’ address so you could get away from poor people. Because that’s what you did. Lying and college applications don’t mix. Going to an inner city school could’ve helped you with admissions. They would’ve understood the situation and the challenges you had to overcome to succeed. You could’ve made your school better and been a leader. Oh well!</p>
<p>Maybe you want to have a meeting with your guidance counselor about the best way to approach this topic. Every year some families manage to arrange transfers for their kids to schools that are better equipped to provide for their specific educational needs and/or interests. If you choose to write about it in an essay, I think you should make it clear that you are truly thankful for the opportunity that was made available to you to attend a better school.</p>
<p>Are you kidding happymomof1? I don’t think it is smart to talk to a counselor about how to make an essay on a dishonest topic that could even now get you kicked out of your current school ecause it is against local regulations. You will have to be reported and be taken out of that school. OP is between a rock and a hard place.</p>
<p>" You should tell your counselors that you moved schools using your godparents’ address so you could get away from poor people. Because that’s what you did. "</p>
<p>He can’t do that because he’ll get kicked out of the school and will be charged money for having attended a school that others’ property taxes have been paying for.</p>
<p>What he’s doing is fraudulent. If his godparents had become his guardians, and he were living with them, then he’d be legally entitled to go to the school he’s attending.</p>
<p>I would imagine that given the current economic times, he may not end up graduating from the school he’s now attending because the wealthier school districts are tracking down and kicking out students who are fraudulently attending them. That is a way of the schools saving money during these tough economic times.</p>
<p>It would be better if the OP found a way to get a scholarship to a private school instead of basically stealing space at a public school that the OP isn’t entitled to attend.</p>
<p>Do you live with the godparents? How do you get to the school?</p>
<p>There are lots of ways to attend schools that are “out of district”. Some are formal arrangements, and some are informal. The OP may indeed have a formal arrangement. If that is so, he/she could discuss the whole issue with the counselor. If the arrangement is informal, how he/she elects to deal with this may be different.</p>
<p>Please folks, try to have a bit more sympathy for this kid. I’m betting that just about every single one of you would have moved heaven and earth to do exactly what his parents did if you were in their situation!</p>
<p>in some states, if it is a public school, once you are attending there, your home address does not matter. Just say you moved (to your current location) and would like to change your home address. Bring a copy of your Bills/ proof of address and they will take care of it. If you are doing well in school and keeping up with the work, they can’t kick you out. Just don’t mention you used a fake address.</p>
<p>“Please folks, try to have a bit more sympathy for this kid. I’m betting that just about every single one of you would have moved heaven and earth to do exactly what his parents did if you were in their situation!”</p>
<p>No, if what he’s doing is lying about his actual address, then I would not have done that. I have not lied about anything to get deals for my kids no matter how much such opportunities would have enhanced my kids’ lives. I have never wanted my kids to think that lying is the way to get what they want.</p>
<p>As for public schools and addresses: There have been articles about public schools that are verifying students’ addresses, kicking out students who don’t live in the district, and then charging the students for the time that they attended schools fraudulently.</p>
<p>Here’s how the state of Maryland deals with students fraudulently attending schools outside of their zones:</p>
<p>“If a child fraudulently attends a public school in a county wherethe child is not domiciled with the child’s parent or guardian, the child’s parent or guardian shall be subject to a penalty payable to the county for the pro rata share oftuition for the time the child fraudulently attends a public school in the county”.</p>
<p>OP – The possibility of you being found out and kicked out of your current school seems like a serious problem. Is there some way you could stay with your godparents during the week so you could legitimately say you live there and, if anyone checked, they’d find your stuff and your bedroom there, and then go home on weekends? Does the inner-city school district have any better magnet schools, such as a science magnet or an arts magnet, that you could apply to attend? Is the rich suburban school in the same district as the inner city school, and is there a way to transfer between schools within the district? Is there a private school, either secular or affiliated with your religion, where you might be able to obtain a scholarship? If either of your parents works somewhere near the rich, suburban school, does the district have rules that would allow you to attend?</p>
<p>I think that most of us agree that there is something terribly wrong with the quality of public schools varying so much depending on where they’re located, and with children in some school districts having a hard time getting their academic needs met in nearby schools. I hope you can find a solution that provides you with a legal way to attend a school that meets your educational needs.</p>
<p>aspasp - I agree with Northstarmom and Nester … the biggest risk is that you’ll be bounced back to what, the other school? (You think you have problems now …)</p>
<p>Frankly I admire your initiative in relocating to more fertile educational ground. Good luck with college!</p>
<p>Depending on the what state he or she is in and his or her grades, it might be a benefit to transfer BACK to the intercity school prior to graduation. It certainly is more likely that they will be in the top 10 percent of the class which can be a real benefit for getting into schools and even merit money.</p>
<p>^ Um before you consider transferring back, you’ll need to make sure this doesn’t create more problems than it solves. For example, the HS school codes on the transcript and SAT reports won’t match. Some schools (like our local public HS) won’t use transfer grades as part of the GPA computation … nor will it rank a student who transfers in for the senior year. The OP may not have any of these issues. I’m just saying …</p>
<p>you know you may have a chance of being caught when you apply to college, and it may have a chance of going on criminal activity.</p>