<p>Is violating a guest policy in a dorm and required to change rooms considered disciplinary action? </p>
<p>Can this effect an applicant harshly, even if it was done during freshman year of college?</p>
<p>No. Unless it was extremely serious, the grad schools don’t need to know about it.</p>
<p>ok so here’s my story… it was so long ago I don’t really remember all of it, but I just want to clarify b/c I was soooo immature and stupid for like the first 2 yrs of my college career. </p>
<p>I went out w/ a few friends and we all got trashed, especially me. So one of the guys signed into my hall and took me up to my room… we were 6 roommates all together so I guess I must’ve been making a racket and one of them complained to the RD. The guy ended up staying the night in our room and he fell asleep and when the RD came in the morning, I was in for it. He ended up filing a complaint, it went to the judicial committee, there was no hearing b/c the facts were clear and obviously I wasn’t about to argue w/ what he saw, so they made me change rooms. Well I wasn’t allowed back into the room where the incident occurred but I would go back anyways to spend the night … I was on good terms w/ all my roommates even with the one that complained and they welcomed me back w/ open arms (my new roommates sucked). So the uni ended up finding out I was in there and made me transfer to a completely different building. </p>
<p>All in all, there is more than likely a file with all this crap in it, but is this severe enough for me to mark off “yes I was involved in disciplinary action”.</p>
<p>Religion affiliated uni’s suck no offense.</p>
<p>No, grad schools will only care if you got in trouble with the law. Your situation is not that serious to be mentioned in your applications, nor do I think they will care.</p>
<p>ahh thanks for the kind message. I look forward from hearing more replies :)</p>
<p>“Violated guest policy in dormitory” sounds pretty lame. That’s a good thing–if there’s a little box to check regarding disciplinary action and a slightly bigger box to “Explain,” you’ll still look like a geek of grad-worthy proportions. Maybe I’ve been desensitized here at Big State Party U, but 70% of the girls on my floor in first year “violated guest policy.” The friggin’ RA couldn’t be reached at 3 am on a Tuesday when the smashed ones were making a racket because she and her sweetie were having ‘couple time’ in her room. Of course, none of them were ever disciplined for it–even the girl who alienated her roommate by engaging in certain activities with her bf in the bottom bunk…while said roommate was in the top one >.></p>
<p>I think you just got extraordinarily unlucky in the actions your former RA saw fit to take. I mean, thinking of all the things you could have done–stash Jack Daniels in the closet, smoke pot in the lounge, take part in questionable pig-slaughtering rituals (and two of the three were valid concerns on my floor)–just letting a guy crash in the girls’ dorm while you weren’t in your right mind falls kind of flat. Don’t worry about it; the grades and recommendations will cancel this out.</p>
<p>so I should tell potential colleges about this? according to the st. john’s website there’s a disciplinary file… I hope they shred that S*** after 5 yrs. I don’t even want to call the school to find out. When I transferred to my current uni, I didn’t check off disciplinary action b/c I had forgotten abt the situation. I just realized yesterday that it could be considered “disciplinary action”.</p>
<p>Just follow the directions… a few schools just wanted to know about criminal things and others wanted to know everything and speficially stated that they wanted to know about ANYTHING that went to judicial at your school. </p>
<p>I had an alcohol offense and just said, “I pleaded no contest to a violoation of the residence hall alcohol policy. If more information is needed, please contact me at…” no one contacted me and I got into all the schools I wanted. As long as you weren’t like heading a major drug cartel from your dorm room and acting as a hit man on the side…</p>
<p>This is a non-issue.</p>
<p>Many graduate schools require that applicants disclose prior arrests. That’s it. While others ask for disciplinary offenses, this information is not even going to be visible to the admissions committee. Only the DGS will potentially see this stuff, and even then it is illegal for the DGS to disclose this to the rest of the committee.</p>
<p>Bottom line: your issue is NOTHING. Report on forms ONLY as necessary, and then please stop worrying.</p>
<p>whats dgs? </p>
<p>I’m not worried anymore, b/c I don’t think its worth mentioning.</p>
<p>Director of Graduate Studies.</p>
<p>Once again, Prof X is your best source here.:)</p>