<p>Hello, I’m an international student from Asian country and I was expelled from a strict Christian private school last week. I came to America since 8th grade and I didn’t have any big troubles since then except for last week… I studied hard entire my high school year and I got decent grades. UW GPA 3.96 and WGPA 4.6. I got 32 on my ACT and 800 on two SAT 2 subject test. I thought everything was going fine until my expulsion. I was expelled because I did not followed 2 of the boarding student rule. First, according to the school policy, all electronic devices need to be submitted to a houseparent before light out, between 10:00pm and 10:30pm, and is returned to me the next morning. I had a cell phone in my room a few times and they caught me. Second, guys cannot visit girl’s dorm after 9 and they are strict about physical relationship between male and female (They don’t allow male and female to even hold hands). However, I decided to see my girlfriend at midnight and I got caught while kissing her. These two happened together and the school decided to expel me. Now, I am so scared that my future is ruined because of my immature decision. I know colleges won’t like student who has the record of expulsion, but I really want to explain how much I regret and how much I learned from my poor decision. Will college still consider me…?
I really wanted to go to Cal Berkeley, UCLA, USC, or Emory and I’m scared to even try for those colleges now…
Can you guys give me some advice please. </p>
<p>It’s still early in the year. If you can enroll in another school and be on track for completion, you might be able to save yourself.</p>
<p>You broke the rules hoping you would not get caught. And you got caught. Is that right? I assume you already went through any appeals process at your school. If so, enroll in your local public school ASAP, and finish out your school year. </p>
<p>You need to find out how the school put your expulsion on your transcript. If possible, see if this can change to a withdrawal. </p>
<p>The school is not going to put as a withdrawal so it will be an expulsion in my transcript. And I found a new private high school and going to start my new senior year next week there. </p>
<p>It was my bad decision that I was thinking that I would not get caught. I learned the lesson from this and I’m not going to repeat this again.</p>
<p>Your new school is going to send your transcript. They may not include that mention.</p>
<p>Frankly when you go to apply for colleges put a statement in your application that says something to the effect your went to an extremely restrictive conservative school and were caught with a phone in your residence room and that you were caught kissing a girl.</p>
<p>Explaining the reasons for the expulsion should go a long way in minimizing any damage. O.K. so it wasn’t smart to break the school rules, but the rules you broke might just seem a little ridiculous to your average adcom at a university (they seem ridiculous to me.) I mean you are senior, shouldn’t you be responsible enough to know when to turn off your technology? And it’s hard to believe anyone would fault you for kissing your girlfriend!</p>
<p>I would have your parents ask the school for a copy of your transcript so you can see exactly what colleges will see. There may be something else - other transgressions, perhaps? It’s unusual to be expelled for the reasons you mentioned. You need to know exactly what the transcript says so that you can make your best case to counter it when you apply to colleges.</p>
<p>Just curious. What did the school do about the girlfriend?</p>
<p>No one is going to care about you having a cell phone in your room or kissing a girl. What may be problems for you are (a) you may have trouble getting recommendations from teachers who actually know you, and a school report from a counselor that knows anything about your school and the courses you took, and (b) knowing that your school expelled you for those reasons casts doubt on the quality of the school, and thus on whatever you achieved there.</p>
<p>I think that the OP’s 800s on two subject tests and his good ACT will answer any questions about his preparation.</p>
<p>I agree with those who say that the reasons for your expulsion will probably strike an admissions committee as laughable. I was afraid you were going to say you were expelled for cheating. THAT would be a problem.</p>
<p>I agree, too. I smiled when I read it - aw, kissing his girlfriend, how sweet. </p>
<p>I hope there isn’t more to this story, because those reasons seem like ones for some disciplinary action but not expulsion. </p>
<p>I was at the Newark Airport a few years ago when it was shut down because a guy snuck through security to kiss his girlfriend good bye one more time. Sometimes a last kiss can have big consequences.</p>
<p>I don’t think it will in your case, OP, if that is the whole story. </p>
<p>It could be worse. I got kicked out of boarding school in January of my senior year. No new school for me. All but one of my outstanding applications were rejected, and the one acceptance that had come before New Year’s was rescinded. It was a baaaaad winter. You have a chance to start over.</p>
<p>My, er, offense was a little more serious than kissing a girl.</p>
<p>Your “offenses” are pretty tame and would not have gotten u kicked out of a day school. Thank goodness it wasn’t drug or cheating.</p>
<p>I recommend NOT discussing the expulsion in your essay. You essay should be about POSITIVE things about yourself. But you should be honest about the circumstances of the expulsion in the section about disciplinary issues.</p>
<p>they suspended her and expelled me.</p>
<p>That was really everything on my story. What they told me was that they do not trust me anymore because I got caught using my phone few times and I lost the trust from them…and since I made another mistake which was kissing my girlfriend, I guess they were done dealing with me…</p>
<p>Hello JHS, I already got my recommendation letters from my math, Chemistry, and English teachers over the summer break and I was really close to my counselor too.Will this make my situation better? Also, I had no troubles what so ever with any of my teachers.
b) I did not cheat or do anything that would casts doubt on what I achieved.</p>