College Applicants Stressing Over Suspensions

“hello i recently got my acceptance letter from a college. i’m 22 years old and recently was honorably discharged from the military. when i went to accept, it asked if i was ever suspended or am a criminal. i have no criminal record, but was suspended sophomore year, which would be 6 years ago now. i do not remember the situation very well, or if it was on my “permanent record” or not. i checked my transcript and see nothing about it. my question is if i should answer yes, as they want me to fill”

Very good with a 2.5 gpa and almost suspended

“Context: I am a high performing student. My GPA is 3.8, I got a 1260 on the SAT, I am involved in multiple clubs, do a lot of volunteer work for my church, and have a job Last year (junior year) I had a falling out with my friend. He started making comments about my appearance and I responded by making comments and jokes about him back. Many of the things I said were tasteless. He ended up winning the case against me bc he’s more popular, he had more evidence, and all of the “witnesses” were his”

“Hey, this might seem like a bit of a waffle but I appreciate you all for reading this. For context, I'm an international applicant from the UK and I really want to attend a top US uni. So around a year ago (during 9th grade), let's just say I did some stupid stuff and I got a one day in school suspension. Now, I asked the school about it and they said that they will report this in my transcripts as a 'suspension' for 'deepfakes'. Now, I thought the punishment was a bit ha”

“Earlier today, I had seen a post asking how much could a suspension in their sophomore year impact their chances at universities. After looking at the comments, I was horrified, since unfortunately, I happen to have 2 suspensions under my belt for "bullying" and "assault" which were from 6th and 7th grade respectively. I have been seriously trying hard for a chance at a decently prestigious university and am currently wondering if all my efforts were for naught because I happ”

“I was suspended during sophomore year for getting into a fight. For context, a bunch of us were at practice after school and this guy pushed me around and slapped me because I took something from his lunchbox (this was after school so lunch happened hours ago). I got super mad but got the hell out of there because I did not want things to escalate. Then across the span of the next week he was constantly gloating, trash talking behind me everywhere, and posting insulting things about me on social”

“In high school, I got suspended twice. So total disciplinary history is two out-of-school suspensions. These suspensions were not: violence, bullying, cheating, crimes, drinking, substance abuse, plagiarism, or hate speech. They were me breaking two rules I didn’t know about. I genuinely would never hurt a fly and I treat everyone with kindness, but I made a mistake and got suspended. I cried to my school admin about it, and they told me it’s “no big deal” and “people get suspended all the time””

“so for context back in 9th grade i called another classmate outside of school pretending to be my school's administration as a prank. as a result i got a 2 day in school suspension. i now realize that that was not a harmless joke and definitely put the afffected student in distress. i remember back when the incident happened i was told it would not be included on my transcript, however, i do think its better to be honest and safe then sorry so im deciding to list it on my application regardl”

“ok so recently i got caught for bringing a vape into school. yes i know it was a bad decision, and it's on my record now. will i still be able to get into a good college with that record? i do have good grades and a lot of extra curriculars, i'm even part of the student council. actully cried over this. lol submitted by /u/CheekAccomplished752 [link] [comments]”

“Hey everyone! I'm a rising senior and I'm beginning to work on my college applications. At the start of my freshman year, I got a 3 day out of school suspension for defending myself against a bully after he continuously was slapping and punching me. I was told that my school will not report it (not too sure abt the counselor tho) and ive gotten mixed answers abt the question on applications about whether i got suspended (some ppl said yes and some said no). i have a pretty high gpa and r”

“Hi! My son is a rising senior and he is seriously considering applying ED to Swarthmore. He is a very strong student who has ADHD and social anxiety with some executive functioning challenges, and wants a small school where he can know his professors and have smaller classes as he thinks he will do better in that kind of an environment (which we think makes sense). I wanted to get some sense from folks here as to: (i) how do you find the academic supports if you use them - he will get some accom”

“For some context a small D3 school about an hour from my house gave me an offer to go play lacrosse for them. They have a pretty good academic program, with lots of support because it's such a small school. The coach's and administrators have been nothing but nice to me. I could see myself going there, but I've always wanted to go to UMD. The engineering program along with the big 10 school feel has always been something I wanted to do. My only worry is being an instate resident it&#”