<p>I will probably be expelled fom my school because I stole two debit cards fom 2 backpacks fom students at my private school and charged $15 to one card and bought a $200 visa gift card with the other. I know it was wrong but right my my school has two choces expel me now or let me finish the rest of my junior year, which is about 1 week plus three days of finals, and not offer me a contract for my senior year. Even if they let me stay which they wont I will not be going back next year. I realize that this was wrong and I deeply regret it but I have to move on. Other than this incident I am a A/B student, I was elected president of a couple of clubs, that I have been vey involved in since my freshman year, for my senior year, I am very involeved in ym community and in my school with programs such as drama and 300+ community service hours. I need help on what to do, should I go to a public school for my senior year and try and adjust and apply to college in the fall or I can get my GED, which wouldnt be hard because I am at a very advanced academic level. Ive made a horrible mistake but I do want to try and make up for it. I had planned to apply ED to Rice University in the fall but I know that probably wont happen now but I do want to go to a good 4 year college and go to law school after that. What should I do???</p>
<p>You go to public school, dominate. Use this experience as a form of strength. It’s horrible you stole, but you can’t change life.</p>
<p>You should learn some grammar, uh…go to school…do well in school, and uh yeah.</p>
<p>Wow, you have a nice high school life, but what made you steal two debit cards? I can’t see low economic status as a factor since you’re going to a private school.</p>
<p>Messed up big time, nicole.
Self destructed the last 2 weeks of school.
Why weren’t you arrested for grand larceny and identity theft?
Expulsion only is very generous.</p>
<p>actually Im a scholashp student and thanks for your advice so far. I dont need a moral lesson I had several of those already I know what I did was wrong.</p>
<p>I just wanted to know what path would be better for me to take now. I’m sorry if I seem snappy I’m just really stressed. Even though I know that all of this stress was my fault its still hard to deal with.</p>
<p>What do your parents say?
They should be the ones to consult.</p>
<p>They are mad but they aren’t completly sure themselves because they just want me to do the best thing that would help me to succeed. they have forgiven me but of course I am grounded as expected. they are more so afraid that i will commit suicide or do something dramatic as a result of these circumstances.</p>
<p>IMHO, finish out your junior year at the private school if you can take the humilation and shame.
Senior year-Public high school supplementing with local cc classes.
You will have to get to know your teachers at the public hs quickly since they will have to write your LORs for applications.
If you take the GED then go to cc as a full time student you cannot apply to colleges as a freshman but as a transfer.</p>
<p>Are you suicidal?
Then get help and forget about finishing out the school year.
Your mental health is the most important issue.
Good Luck.</p>
<p>Im not suicidal at all, I’m actually doing quite well. I apreciate your help!</p>
<p>What were the circumstances that caused you to steal? Do you understand them? I think people sometimes steal for reasons they don’t understand.</p>
<p>I’m rooting for you. It’s great that you’re trying to make the best and acknowledging your mistake. Taking away a life’s lesson and using that in your college apps is the best approach, IMO. Doing great in your senior year is very important too.</p>
<p>Thanks, I think that I may hav ejust been acting out. But yes I do understand and realize my mistake but you are right i have to move on. This is not somethin that I will let become the reason why i didnt succeed in life.</p>
<p>Finish high school. Do not drop out and plan to get your GED. Things happen, things change, and plans don’t work out. A very smart man once wrote that “Purpose is but the slave to memory, of violent birth but poor validity, which now, (to insert a metaphor) like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree but fall unshaken when they mellow be.” So might your plans go. Moving on means finishing high school, not dropping out and letting this incident dominate some of the more important choices in your life.</p>
<p>Im going to try nd get into a public school if possible, but they might not accept me. And I have to get into one that is rigourous academically because I have already finished all of my requirements for graduation. That is why i was going to get my GED and go to community college so that i could take harder courses and within a year or two transfer to a university. I am not the kind of person that wont finish what I started, my parents, my grandparenst and my friends wont let me not go to a university. It just wont happen.</p>
<p>Don’t stop believing</p>
<p>I would try to transfer to the public, and take CC courses as a supplement to HS courses. Colleges prefer diplomas to GEDs and if you take the CC courses anyways, even better. Also, with the seriousness of your action (which may lead to criminal charges) I would start at a CC and than transfer once you graduate HS. Do you live in CA? Some UCs have transfer regulations where they must accept you after you receive an AA with certain conditions. A lot of other states have similar programs. I’m sorry to say but you will most likely not get into any privates, and even publics are iffy unless they don’t ask about it on the app. I would apply to mostly publics in HS because you have the best shot at those schools. I would also maybe get counseling if you feel like you commited the crime in anger.</p>