Hello,I’m new her and I was wondering if I got in a fight in middle school and got suspended would that effect my chances of getting into a good college like UCLA?
Yes it will.
^ Really? Middle school doesn’t generally matter.
From the Common App:
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Have you ever been found responsible for a disciplinary violation at an educational institution you have attended **from the 9th grade forward/b, whether related to academic misconduct or behavioral misconduct, that resulted in your probation, suspension, removal, dismissal, or expulsion from the institution?/quote
I agree with @bodangles. Also, you should probably look up using the words “effect” and “affect”.
Good luck!
No. Just don’t continue that pattern of behavior.
@encadyma is talking crazy. Your middle school actions in school (barring jail time) won’t affect your college chances.
Knowing how to write.
Jesus H. Christ. Haha, OP made a grammar mistake!! Let’s harp on it for six more pages!! That’s helpful and relevant for sure!!!
^^ Calm down. OP made the same mistake not once but twice so obviously does not know the proper usage of affect and effect which I pointed out to them for their benefit. @“aunt bea” is right in that an AO at a top school might overlook that basic grammatical error once in a college essay but twice…?
Aunt Bea said nothing of the sort. Just plain snarkiness, nothing helpful there. And we all know how CC likes to pile on once somebody’s opened the gates to clever, biting remarks.
It depends if it’s the first in a pattern, in which case your application will come with a red flag and adcoms will call your gc. If it happened once, you’re OK. If it’s due to responding to bullying, you have to take a different path to justice. If you are a bully, change your behavior - you may have to change schools to start with a clean slate so that you’re not trapped in that role.
@MYOS1634 , at first I thought you were referring to the recurrent grammatical error. 
I’m being honest, not intending to be snarky. The colleges like students who can write well. It’s better to hear it here than sending in an application with a bunch of mistakes (affect/effect, then/than alot/a lot, apart/ a part, etc.). It’s hard for me to read through essays (in scholarship applications) when I keep seeing the same mistakes made repeatedly.
FYI, @Boss23 , UCLA likes good writers. Middle school records will not count unless your middle school fight was in the 9th grade. Do well in your studies and you should be fine.
If the OP is asking about what will help, then when application time comes around and his app is well-written, the less mistakes noted, the better.