<p>Also, I have one more question. I was going to apply to UNC, Michigan, Notredame, Gtech for my early action and should I still try for those schools? or will it be better to wait until regular decision?
I am asking this question because early action is for colleges to accept students who they really like right? So if I have an expulsion in my transcript, would they automatically give me rejection because I won’t be their favorite.(especially in early, there will be bunch of other students who got same or higher score than me and had no troubles in their high school career) If I get a rejection, I cannot even try again in regular decision so right now I don’t know what to do. Help me please.</p>
<p>You were caught a ‘few times’ with your phone, then caught with your girlfriend. If this is really a persistent pattern of indiscipline, it is not surprising you were expelled. I also think it is not all that harmless that you were in girls’ dorm after midnight, the other students (and their parents) have an expectation of privacy and safety without strange guys wandering around at any time. The universities may not care about ‘using a cellphone’ or ‘kissing’ but they may care about ‘inability to follow rules’ and a high degree of self-centredness.</p>
<p>@Sorghum. </p>
<p>Possibly, but I think we can make a distinction between the stated infractions and academic dishonesty. In baseball, you get suspended for drugs but expelled for gambling. Ask Pete Rose. </p>
<p>@Gofhzzz </p>
<p>Conventional wisdom is that early action acceptance is about the same as for regular decision–some schools explicitly say this, while early decision tends to have a higher acceptance rate. </p>
<p>I’m sure this varies and I haven’t seen general statistics about it. But I’d check about the acceptance rates for a school you’re considering that has single choice EA or ED. </p>
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<p>Curious what lesson you learned, other than it’s bad to get caught.</p>
<p>Maybe he learned that it is a good idea to avoid subjecting oneself to rigid, overbearing organizations with ridiculous rules with which one does not agree?</p>
<p>In a Christian coed high school, it is ridiculous to have a rule keeping boys out of the girls’ dorm after midnight? I am sure that girls going home pregnant is better than a school being thought to be rigid and overbearing.</p>
<p>Re: your letters of recommendation. These are usually sent by the high school (at least that is what is done here). Will your former private school be on board with sending those letters out? Or can they somehow be sent to the new high school? </p>
<p>Also, these letters were written prior to your disciplinary action. Will the former high school ask ther staff to amend these letters, or not send them? You need to find out.</p>
<p>I would suggest applying regular decision. Right now, you have nothing to send from your new school if you apply ED or EA…no class grades, nothing. The teachers there haven’t known you long enough to say anything about you. I am not sure how the school counselor would complete their portion on a student who is brand spanking new to the school when ED and EA applications are due.</p>
<p>Isn’t there a space on the common application to explain things like this? The OP should briefly detail what led up to the expulsion. I can’t claim to know what admissions people think, but I would think that in schools where a reasonable percentage of the applicants are offered admission, this wouldn’t be terrible. Naturally, in schools where the acceptance rate is very low, any blemish on an application could be reason to keep someone out. Yes, the OP broke the rules, but it was most likely the wrong type of school (too personally restrictive) for the OP. Nothing illegal here, and to many, nothing immoral. Of course strict religious types may find the behavior offensive. </p>
<p>Do not wait to apply to Georgia Tech. EA had an acceptance rate of 40% last year while RD was around 23%… </p>
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Really? First of all, it’s highly unlikely OP chose this school himself. But more to the point, there are plenty of parents who won’t allow phone use after 10:30 pm and would never permit a boy in their daughter’s bedroom after 9 pm. Those are hardly “ridiculous rules” and a boarding school charged with making sure its students get adequate sleep, study sufficiently, and stay out of each others pants is hardly “rigid” or “overbearing” by taking the necessary steps to make sure all that happens. Hopefully the lesson OP learned was that he wasn’t a special snowflake who was above the rules everyone else at his school had to live by.</p>
<p>To throw my 2 cents in, the OP learned a valuable lesson - be it a jolt that needs to sink in beyond his fears of significant consequences with college acceptances, and certainly has to live with the consequences of his behavior - he knew the rules, just thought he could get away with it. I hope he can learn the lessons, so he does not continue to incorrectly assess the situation - what is expected, and the potential consequences with ‘screwing up’… Needs to step much farther back from the line of bad behavior with bad consequences and see what is expected of him with the opportunities he has been given.He can use that lesson with college and in his personal life!</p>
<p>He may not have understood how first, second, third infractions have affected the school’s decision process. They didn’t want to have to deal with him, and now he was involving another student. This was probably her first infraction so the use of suspension for her. The school also wants to send a message to other students to stay in line.They are also accountable to parents and the school’s reputation.</p>
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<p>The new school is only going to report how long student has been in attendance, which is school year 2014-2015.</p>
<p>The net-net is this; the school is going to ask if you have been the subject of any academic or disciplinary actions. You are going to have to answer the question truthfully. Yes, you were and as a result of your actions you were expelled. While your side of the story is, that it was not that serious, they will contact your previous school for their side of the story. Whatever you do, disclose, disclose, disclose. Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Take responsibility, ownership and accountability for what happened.</p>