In my school, they set the school passwords as peoples’ birthdays and the login is the school id. The last three digits of the school id are given in the school emails, and I wrote code to brute force the login for these school accounts and got suspended for it. I did not intend on causing any harm with this code, however a fellow classmate of mine who dislikes me had told the administrators that I was doing this maliciously. I had only experimented on a few friends that had allowed me beforehand to test it on them, and I even offered them to write some code to fix this issue in their system.
I plan on attending The University of Texas at Dallas, and my current stats are:
SAT I: 1350
GPA: 3.7 out of 4.0 (weighted about 4.7 out of 6.0)
Class rank: 160/500
Will I still be admitted into UTD? And also, how will this affect my chances for the AES scholarship?
You’ll have to self-report a suspension on the Common App. I have no idea if they’ll accept you or not- You do explain what your wrongdoing was when you enter the suspension on the Common App. I’m sure it won’t look as bad as stealing or a physical altercation.
Be ready to explain what your was motivation for writing this code if not maliciousness (as you state).
Will your GC still write a letter of recommendation and how will they handle this in it?
Are you planning to major in computer science, computer engineering, or something in that field? If so, do you have any HS classes in this and are you (still) on good terms with the course teacher(s), can you get a good LOR from one of them that would put this in perspective?
You hacked into the school’s log in accounts? And you’re annoyed because someone who doesn’t like you told admin it was malicious?
OK, for starters: It doesn’t matter what your intent was. What you did was wrong and you know it.
And admin didn’t suspend you because someone threw you under the bus, they suspended you because what you did was wrong. They’re not in the habit of letting the opinions of high school kids guide their disciplinary policies.
And what WAS your intent, if it wasn’t malicious? How can you possibly spin this as a positive thing?
I know it’s not the question you asked, but I would think that it would help tremendously for you to be up front about the fact that what you did was WRONG in the event that this comes up at some point in the future.
What WAS your intent? Sorry, but you essentially committed a crime and therefore, were being malicious. If you were at a job and did this, you would have been fired and possibly prosecuted.
Discuss with your counselor what he/she will be putting in the letter of rec. Ask the counselor how you should frame this on the application.