<p>Okay, so it's January 4th, 2010. I'm a Senior and I already completed/submitted all my apps late November, around Thanksgiving time. All that time since freshman year, I have never gotten suspended. A week after I submitted all my apps, I got suspended two days for "cursing" at a teacher. Two weeks later, I got suspended for a day for saying homosexual slurs to underclassmen. Finally, today, I got suspended yet AGAIN for fighting. On all the applications I have submitted, I said I have never gotten suspended. I already have three now as a senior but since all this happened after I submitted my apps, will the colleges not know I got suspended? Or will my school notify all the colleges I applied to that I got suspended three times? If they do, will it awfully hurt my chances?</p>
<p>Your school will most likely notify the colleges, and yes, I do think it will hurt your chances a lot. </p>
<p>You might want to get a second opinion though!</p>
<p>Talk to your counselors and see if your old pal [George</a> Washington](<a href=“http://www.seasideequity.com/images/dollar.bmp]George”>http://www.seasideequity.com/images/dollar.bmp) might convince them to “forget” to enter the suspensions on the transcripts that they will send to colleges at the Mid-Year and Final Report.</p>
![http://www.seasideequity.com/images/dollar.bmp]George](http://www.seasideequity.com/images/dollar.bmp%5DGeorge){kind=link}
<p>Both early and regular decision admits are contingent on your grades and disciplinary standards remaining close to the level they were when you were accepted. Your school will send an updated transcript and record at the end of the school year, so these schools will be notified by your hs. I’m also fairly certain that they expect you to report these incidences before the report goes out. </p>
<p>Your best bet is to call the colleges that accept you and let them know of the transgressions. Since they haven’t admitted you, I’m not entirely sure about the protocol, since I imagine informing them of this before you’re admitted lessens your chances significantly. But you need to be honest. </p>
<p>Just curious: Were all of these fair suspensions, or were you wrongly accused?</p>
<p>Midyear reports will be the killers. Oh, and the fact that your counselor would probably notify the colleges.</p>
<p>And although you haven’t answered yet I don’t think that claiming to be ‘wrongly accused’ will get you anywhere…if you were found guilty by the school, colleges will assume that you were guilty, even if you say you were wrongly accused. They’re probably betting that anyone with a transgression on their transcript will lie and cry “innocent” to colleges. (plus, who is going to think that the teacher accused you of cursing at them for the heck of it? And THREE suspensions? I don’t think they’ll believe that all three incidents were misunderstandings.)</p>
<p>lol George Washington…that won’t get you anywhere.</p>
<p>You need to talk to your old pal Benjamin Franklin…</p>
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<p>That’s the problem. If you had had a record of suspensions and other disciplinary issues before and the colleges were willing to look past that and look at your positive achievements, then that would be another thing. But if you started messing up senior year, then you might want to get on the ball and write some sort of essay or letter to explain why you were being framed. Mr. President might be able to help you here if you play it cool enough.</p>
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<p>If not, and I’m not being “funny”, but what’s your problem? Maybe you don’t really want to go to college and this acting out is to ensure that? Or have you always been this charming? Colleges, employers, even decent girlfriends look for maturity and stablity. Time to work on that.</p>