<p>Hello,
I am a Community College student (OOS) who is majoring in computer science. About a year ago, I was expelled from a top 25 university for academic integrity violations. It was during the first half of my freshman year, and I made some really bad mistakes (which I confessed to) that led to my expulsion. Since then, I have been taking classes at a community college (will get my Associates by December) and have become an industry-level software developer. I have also worked in multiple startups and have a 4.0 for my CC classes. I have been accepted and plan to attend a top 10 CS school for my spring 2015 semester, and hopefully will do well enough to prove to Berkeley that I can handle their course rigor. I will be submitting my application to Berkeley this fall.</p>
<p>Do I have a chance at acceptance? My academic integrity violation was egregious, but I feel like I’ve learned a lot because of the incident and have managed to turn it into a positive situation. I also believe that my extracurricular and academic accomplishments since the incident far outweigh other applications (not to be cocky). I know Berkeley has to sift through thousands of applications per year and I’m afraid that they will simply throw my application in the bin once they see that I was expelled. Will they even read the rest of my application?</p>
<p>" I have been accepted and plan to attend a top 10 CS school for my spring 2015 semester," Not sure what that means? Where were you accepted to?</p>
<p>In regards to your question, it could be helpful if you could give us a little more details on what “academic integrity violations” means in your case. From my own experience, Berkeley is very serious about enforcing academic honesty, Student ID’s are required at all exams, many times exams are scanned to check for students submitting an altered exam for a regrade. Many proctors will monitor examinations to check for usage of eletornic devices, and only one person of each gender is allowed a restroom break at a time. In certain classes, giving out answers to homework assignments can result in a violation and an F for that course.</p>
<p>However, it is rare for a student to be expelled from Berkeley if it’s a first offense, and even if they are, almost 100% of the time they are offered a readmission to the university if they follow certain measures proposed by the student conduct committee.</p>
<p>My concern is, that if you were expelled from your university, without an offer of readmission, it must be very serious, possibly enough for you to be placed on an higher education blacklist. One of the most important things is whether or not your violation broke any laws, as in were the police involved in any of it?</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>No, there were no laws broken or anything of that nature. I made some really bad decisions and decided to plagiarize some homework without permission of the person. I was expected to get a semester of suspension, but instead received an expulsion. </p>
<p>I see, I think you definitely have a chance then, as normally in Berkeley for most courses that would just be an offense reported to the student conduct office and an F in the course and not an expulsion.</p>
<p>From the way you made it sound i thought you hacked the school’s transcripts database and changed all your grade’s to A’s lol 
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