<p>u have got to be kidding. thats almost as terrible as BobJonesUniversity, if not WORSE.</p>
<p>what the eff? where is your school located/name</p>
<p>It usually doesnt matter for the UC's because they wont request it or know it anyways.</p>
<p>But for other schools, it might do some damage, although not NEARLY as much as what some of the people are implying here...</p>
<p>i could tell you right now, more than anything, "good" colleges are full of "good" trustees. i go to a jesuit cahtolic school myself, and all i can say is we are really moral, but there are still so many cheaters in my school, in fact i would say most of the cream of the crop are cheaters. academic honesty is not a game, i relaly doubt colleges could trust someone who is willing to go the extra mile, backwards. Personally I already despise you as I have never cheated in my life despite being offered to numerous times, I always get a lower grade than someone else, but I know my grade is mine's</p>
<p>first ask if it goes on transcript, if it doesn't you have nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>i wouldn't have the recommendations focused on the incident, you are just going to bring more attention to it which is bad. just tell your teachers to stress your integrity to counter balance the incident.</p>
<p>also -- why are people posting stories about how honest they are? nobody cares. the purpose of the thread is for the original poster on how to handle his suspenson.</p>
<p>Even if it doesn't go on the transcript, some applications ask about "any suspensions or expulsions". It is risky to lie, because it could come out somewhere else- in a rec or something. S will be attaching a "rap sheet" to his applications.</p>
<p>I've never seen a GC rec form on an application which doesn't ask if the student has ever been suspended. Whether the suspension is mentioned on the transcript or not is a moot point. Colleges will find out, and I think the best action is a proactive one- especially if the applicant is sincere and genuine in his remorse.</p>
<p>1st thing I'd do is fight it tooth and nail. Having to explain your suspensions is never a fun thing to do. Fortunately for you, you didn't actually hurt anyone. However, your suspension still seems to bring your integrity into question (very different froma suspension for a cell phone, drinking, smoking, other stupid things). As long as you apply to a few schools where you won't have to list your suspension (Michigan comes to mind as a great school that doesn't ask about suspensions that aren't cheating related and didn't/couldn't have hurt anyone) you should be fine. Make sure your counselor's story matches up with yours EXACTLY and try to get them to paint a favorable picture. Depending on how well crafted your school's rules are, you might be able to appeal successfully or go to court and win, though at most schools the rules are so vague that you have little/no chance of getting a successful appeal.</p>
<p>A suspension isn't damning, though. I managed to get into Cornell after getting a 10 day suspension for drinking at a dance.</p>
<p>If you have time, try to do something (not sure what you could do in your case) that shows you have seriously changed your ways (ie if you were drinking joining SADD or whatever).</p>
<p>What you did was wrong and there is no valid explanation. These are the reasons why it is gonna hurt and hinder you. You really had no buisness looking at someone's grades, so I think you have to just face the truth and deal with what you did.</p>
<p>wow!! my friend did THE EXACT SAME THING! his senior year too!! but he still was able to go to ucla...however, all his senior priviliges were taken away including school scholarships! it sucks, but hey, at least he's still in college</p>
<p>During my freshman year of high school, I was attacked by another student for essentially no reason, and the school automatically suspended both of us before even looking into what happened.</p>
<p>I had a pretty strong application otherwise (4.0 UW GPA, 95 college credits, some unique and hardcore ECs, 1500/800/770/750 SATs, disadvantaged nonminority background, 400 volunteer hours) and was rejected from HYPM. I was admitted to Cornell and a local safety school. I suspect that I would have had a different outcome if I had not been suspended, but, of course, that's just speculation on my part.</p>
<p>My evidence is purely anecdotal and clearly does not represent a large enough sample size to draw sweeping conclusions. However, it does lend credibility to my personal opinion, which is this: Given the circumstances, your suspension will not hurt your chances at absolute top-tier colleges, it will eliminate them. Still, admissions at competitive colleges are unpredictable stuff, and the only way that your probability of admission to a given school is really zero is if you don't apply. Just brace yourself for what might turn out to be an outcome you aren't going to be happy with. If you aren't aiming at schools prestigious enough to be assigned their own letter of the alphabet, the damaging effect of your suspension will be much less, provided your application is accompanied by a letter of explanation rife with sincere-sounding genuflection.</p>
<p>What happens if you got suspended in middle school?</p>
<p>Absolutely nothing as far as I know.</p>
<p>For all of you wondering how colleges will find out...the high school counselor sends a report in that typically asks if the student has had any major disciplinary action against him/her....also, if you tell them you've never been in trouble (at school) and they found out that you lied, your chances of getting into that school are ZERO....</p>
<p>Is that for high school or elementary and middle to?</p>
<p>Actually they dont even have suspensions in elementary.</p>
<p>middle school suspensions dont count for anything</p>
<p>nah. my friend got about like a billion suspensions and a buncha DUI's, got into University of Florida (top 51 in the country) and purdue. So, as long as that gpa ans sat's (his was 1190) is up, you'll be ok.</p>
<p>mbhA999 </p>
<p>I got suspended in 3rd grade for having a swiss army knife in my book bag.</p>
<p>Just get ur parent to go to school and tell them you wnat your record wiped.</p>
<p>I did it and I ahve been suspended 5 times for variouse reasons/</p>
<p>My record is clean.</p>
<p>Own up to it and show you've moved on. The college WILL find out. You have nothing to gain from trying to cover up your suspension. I'm not going to judge what you did because quite frankly no one is perfect, and if there was ever a time to screw up and do something you regret later, high school would be it. Be glad you did it in high school and not college, where they might kick you out for that sort of thing.
A guy in my school got suspended twice for sexual harrassment but did not check "yes" on his applications. The schools found out and the only school he got into was BU. A good school, but still, one might wonder where he could have gotten in if hadn't lied.
I got suspended for drinking and I always felt uncomfortable with applications that asked that suspension question. I'm a person who tends to suffer from a lot of guilt and don't want to constantly be reminded of one stupid instance from my past when I'm thinking about my future...so I applied to only two schools that asked that question. I got rejected from one, but that's because my grades and SATs weren't good enough. It was definetely a reach anyway. As for other schools I applied to, they were SUNY schools as well as McGill University in Canada. I would have applied to state schools in other states, which also wouldn't have asked, but I wanted an inexpensive education and state schools tend to cost a lot for out of staters. Long story short, I'm going to McGill, which didn't ask that question on the application because McGill doesn't waste time trying to judge you as a person when you apply, it simply looks at your scores and determines that you could succeed there. BTW, The other person in my grade who was in the same situation as me is going to Vanderbilt--very good school. It asked about the suspension, and I'm sure that he adressed it in an honest manner.
If you're a good student who doesn't really feel like having to explain the suspension, apply to any of the UCs (except maybe Riverside, I haven't heard very good things about it), University of Michigan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Virginia, William and Mary, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University-Bloomington, University of Texas-Austin, Penn State, University of Maryland -College Park, University of Illinois, University of Iowa (if you want to pursue English), University of Minnesota (top-notch for journalism), SUNY Binghamton or other fantastic options. These state schools are nothing to look down on...they are all excellent schools that look good on transcripts and I'm pretty sure (correct me if I'm wrong, CCers) that they don't ask about suspensions. May I also recommend Canada? University of Toronto and McGill kick ass.
If a particular private school is your dream, apply to it. I'm not going to tell you that you wouldn't get in. College admissions are really unpredictable, and regardless of what people on this board say, I really don't think they will close the books on somebody SIMPLY because they were suspended from high school. (Note--what I just said ONLY applies if you are honest and explain yourself in a humble manner, showing that you have moved on.) Seriously, they know that people aren't perfect, and there are probably people at that insititution that are way bigger *******s than you (jk), they are just smarter at not being caught. It's not like you're a serial killer. You made a human mistake, now show the positive side of your humanity and own your mistake, learn from it, and move on.</p>
<p>"mbhA999 </p>
<p>I got suspended in 3rd grade for having a swiss army knife in my book bag.</p>
<p>Just get ur parent to go to school and tell them you wnat your record wiped.</p>
<p>I did it and I ahve been suspended 5 times for variouse reasons/</p>
<p>My record is clean."</p>
<p>Sorry to bring up this old post. but can u actually do this?</p>