| While I'm sure that all schools would take a situation about honesty seriously, the OP is right in terms of it affecting his chances at "top" schools". With the exception of UVA, my son applied to schools that are ranked between 50-100, and none of them had the "suspension" question on it. UVA did.
The reason I was totally aware of this, was because my son was suspended in 9th grade for a prank, so when application time came around we were very nervous.
At the begining of senior year I asked the guidance department how the schools would view this. Their answer was to ask me if it had been an "out of school suspension"- it wasn't. Basically they told me that they do not report "in school suspensions" to the schools, so they told my son that because he did not have time off from school, he was NOT technically suspended and he should not report it to the school.
While I think cheating is far more serious than building a snowman on the roof of a school (yep that's what he did) I can't help but be curious as to whether or not your suspension was "in" or "out" of school. |