Cheating and chances for admission?

barbfam1
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 04:48:45 +0000

If there was a suspension imposed by the school, even if in name only (ie there were no more days of school to be suspended), the student MUST answer the common app question “yes”. This common app question is the same one that a student would have to answer yes if he/she murdered someone. Then there is a place to explain. In addition, the school ALSO must check a box on the guidance counselor’s form. This obviously is a big problem for any student who wants to go to a selective school. If the student has very few other warts in his application, it may not be a death knell, but a disciplinary action AND a poor grade or a poor standardized test score starts to stack the deck. I basically believe that for selective colleges, students can MAYBE have one mulligan, but not two.