I’m currently a freshman in highschool and in the beginning of the school year I got into a fight and got a 3-day suspension. I currently have a 4.0 gpa and want to get into schools like Stanford or NYU. I’m just wondering how badly this suspension will affect me getting into one of the schools I want. This has been worrying me all year and any type of help with this will be appreciated.
Your a freshman so I can understand you casually dropping Stanford. As far that suspension is concerned your freshman year GPA will not matter to colleges but this may to some schools(I’ll explain this very soon). More importantly though, I would like to ask YOU how badly you want to go to Stanford or NYU. Ask some seniors at your school about what apply to those schools is like. They usually want you to take six+ AP courses with all fives or maybe a four or two. Your extra curriculars must be fantastic and your SAT or ACT should be in the top 1-3 percentile. is your heart set on these schools? Back to your question. My friend got rejected from Stanford with a 4.66 GPA. I don’t want to intimidate you nor make any assumptions, but if you are getting into fights right now even with good grades schools like Stanford will take any reason they can to reject students. If these schools can find out (you should ask your school what their policy is on this. If its some zero tolerance BS I’m sorry for you) I urge to have a serious conversation with your principal in which you admit you were wrong (even if you were just defending yourself). Tell him/her that you accept responsibility and you do not want it to hurt your chances for college using your GPA as proof of your ambition. They may not remove it from your student record, but may have power over whether colleges see it. seriously though, good for you for being ambitious, I remember when I wanted to go to Stanford because I lived in California and thought they would have to accept me because of that. Don’t be stupid like me. I got to a very competitive school in California and last year 59 of our students applied to Stanford, all were rejected (Stanford likes sports btw).
Clear up the record and find out from your school what their policy is and work it out with a mature demeanor from their. best of luck, and if this happens a second time I can pretty much guarantee you colleges will know.It’s easy for a school to chalk this up to a bad mistake, but not if it happens again. Lastly, I apologize for being all over the place in my response.
@vsauce4 Could you add some color around your “Stanford likes sports” comment? Thx!
Colleges give you chances to explain your suspensions.
Fighting with other kids? Pff, that’s a far cry from any incriminating acts. But if it’s about drugs or other serious offenses, you are in much bigger troubles.
So, just work hard through your senior year. You are a freshmen.
Stanford has a stronger bias towards sports playing students than other schools. That said it is Stanford so you can never be sure if even a 36 ACT and Captain of two varisty sports will get you in.