In high school, I’ve committed some egregious actions that I don’t think will be forgiven.
I’ve threatened my first high school about 3 times, stolen ice cream, gossiped about someone’s looks, was almost kicked out of two high schools, and I’ve had numerous referrals for tardies and classroom disruptions.
In short, I was an absolute mess. In the past, I abhorred my school, wanted attention, and wanted to entertain others. I was too dismissive of any consequence that would arise as I didn’t think of it at the time. I expressed these feelings in a careless manner and I did not have the right guidance in life to help me realize the impact of my actions or the value of school. I was an adolescent who was inexperienced, full of hormones, and prone to making bad decisions and mistakes. Humans are imperfect and it takes time and the right conditions to develop the state of mind that would nearly eliminate these follies. When I self-reflect to my past, I can only see that it was nothing short of shameful and criminal on my part. It is a past that is nothing in coherence with a normal or decent person. I realize that my future good actions for other people will not assuage the worries that I have instilled in others or the people that I have carelessly hurt, and I’m sorry.
My past never dies away, it has the power to remain a bane on my record; to torment me and alter the course of my life in an unintended direction. My aim for a competitive college is the primary axle of my motivation at this point in my life, and after finding out that Georgia Tech asks for my high school disciplinary records as a transfer student, I am on the internet looking for more information to help me replan my path towards my goal of majoring in Industrial Engineering at a competitive college.
I was rejected three times to a low-tier college requesting a minimum 2.0 GPA as a result of my disciplinary records alone.
Right now I am attending community college and while my conduct, mentality, and performance is significantly better than that of my past behavior, I want to transfer to a college that will accept someone like me.
I believe the U.C.'s don’t look at disciplinary records from high school, but what other colleges hold an identical policy towards transfer applicants?