<p>Quick background. I went to college previously but dropped out to join the military. Last year I was medically discharged. I decided to go back to school but not wanting to start with only a year of college half of which were F's for dropping out I joined a community college with the intention of starting over. It was going great until one of my buddies said that what I was doing was illegal.
Is my buddy right? I can't find a law that I'm breaking and my schools handbook doesn't mention that I'm doing anything wrong. </p>
<p>I just wanted a fresh start and things are going great but I'd like to transfer out of the community college next semester and into a bigger university that has a major I want to pursue. </p>
<p>I'm paying for college myself and am not currently receiving any financial aid. So I'm not committing fraud to get anyone to pay for my college or anything like that.</p>
<p>Whenever you apply to a college, you are required to send transcripts from any other schools you’ve attended. Failure to do this may result in being denied admission and even withdrawal of a degree. </p>
<p>That’s what my friend said. The problem is I can’t find anywhere that it says I was actually supposed to have done that. Do you know of a specific law, code, statute? Federal, state or otherwise.</p>
<p>I don’t think it matters as far as your enrollment in community college, but when you apply for next semester you are required to disclose your previous experience.</p>
<p>It’s when you fill out an application. They state that you must list all schools and send transcripts, and then you sign at the bottom that you have not falsified information.</p>
<p>Just wanted to update so if anyone else looks this up they’ll find out what happened.
I applied to a different school after starting over. The lady helping me fill out the application at the new school said they were interested in knowing what schools I had previously attended but that I should only list the ones I would be transferring credit from since it would save them time. So apparently if you really want to you can start over and it’s up to the school whether they want to scrutinize or not.</p>