<p>I am curious as to why Ohio University came up. I don’t know much about the school but I resent the insinuation that they are somehow a plausible possibility for a last resort trash can for people who literally can’t get in anywhere else after willfully vandalizing their own transcripts and academic history. I am not an alum but chances are most schools that have restrict admissions in any way at all will screen for something like this.</p>
<p>Ohio University is a great university. I would be more than lucky to be accepted, especially for someone like me who has made so many mistakes.</p>
<p>Fair enough. I didn’t mean to sound as harsh as I came across.</p>
<p>I suspect OU was brought up, not because it’s a “last resort” but because it’s near where OP lives.
However, returning to college now may not be the best idea. OP needs to work on his issues and establish a “track of trustworthiness” (for lack of a better word) in order to balance out the cheating infractions.
Many if not most universities require transfers to be “in good standing” with the university they’re transferring from. OP needs to check what universities nearby don’t require this while he’s working on the reason why he cheated.</p>
<p>I understand that an option available to me is to go work.</p>
<p>However, I still want to apply colleges right now, since it is necessary to apply now to even be considered for the earliest cohort: Fall 2015 and later. By then, I will be ready to go back to school, and hopefully have learned my lessons.</p>
<p>If anyone on the internet can give specific advice on personal experiences where they have been suspended/expelled and have been accepted to a college thereafter, please help me by giving specific college names that give mercy to students who were previously academically dishonest.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t most colleges accept transfers in such situations on a case by case basis? Then it wouldn’t really make any difference what they did in the past for a student when trying to determine what they would do for you.</p>
<p>You need to be much more specific in your query. You need to ask about students who were expelled because of academic DISHONESTY. </p>
<p>Students are suspended and expelled from colleges because of repeated failures in college as well. If a student is placed on academic probation more than once and doesn’t meet the academic bar when returning, he will likely be suspended. If he returns to the college and flunks out again…he will likely be expelled from the school…in other words…they will not be allowing him to return to THAT school. But a student who has this sort of academic failure can actually turn it around, and prove academic ability by going to CC or working responsibly while taking a class or two here and there.</p>
<p>Your issue is cheating…and as noted, you got CAUGHT three times. One has to wonder about other incidents as well. </p>
<p>You need to ask what happened to students who were dismissed from college because of academic dishonesty…and what happened to those students.</p>
<p>You could always consider running for office. Your track record might not be a hindrance in that area. </p>
<p>I don’t think you’re really grasping what everyone is saying. No reputable college will accept you for entrance in fall 2015. A few months is really not enough time for you to be “a changed person”. What we are saying is that you need to work for at least a year, or more likely two years to hopefully gain some maturity, understand why what you did is wrong, and demonstrate that you are REALLY prepared to never cheat again. You can start school again in 2017, but anything before that is extremely unlikely, and it would behoove you to accept that reality sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>I agree that time away from campus will help more towards helping you grow so that you want to be in college for the education, not the grades.
You haven’t ruined your life, remember we learn more from our failures than our successes, & I feel everything happens for a reason, this may be the motivation you need to discover more about yourself.</p>
<p>This website has given me encouragement, I hope it does the same for you.
<a href=“http://www.marcandangel.com”>http://www.marcandangel.com</a></p>
<p>Actually, with the right interventions, I think you could aim to apply a year from now with an enrollment date of September 2016. That is almost 2 years. I think what you do in the time between now and next fall when applications are sent will be very important. VERY. Getting a job, continuing with whatever counseling you are getting, doing whatever interventions recommended by your therapist, and doing something that shows responsibility and honesty…all will be important.</p>
<p>You seem to want to rush this process…and sort of sweep it under the rug. It sounds like you are hoping to find a college for this fall that really won’t care about this issue. That is highly unlikely. </p>
<p>You don’t seem to want to hear…YOU have some work to do to prove yourself. That will take time.</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill embraces cheating</p>
<p>OP:</p>
<p>other than sexual assault, academic dishonesty is one of the largest negatives that you could have in a university app. Only time heals that latter negative.</p>
<p>Your best option is to enroll in a juco part-time and work for a year or two while you take classes. Demonstrate (show – not tell) that you have matured and learned from your repeated mistakes. Excellent grades and true remorse (other than ‘I got caught’) would make you eligible for a second chance.</p>
<p>Good luck. </p>
<p>Regardless if someone failed/succeeded while transferring to a university after being suspended/expelled due to academic dishonesty, I need specific real life examples.</p>
<p>I don’t think you are going to find a whole lot of specific examples here. Those students in your situation are probably out working so they can get back into school following an expulsion, rather than posting on CC. </p>
<p>I’m hopeful. Please don’t discourage caring souls from posting their own stories. There are students who have finished working that were perhaps expelled not recently but many years ago.</p>
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Who cares what other people do in their particular situations! It is your life. Do whatever you think is right.</p>
<p>I personally think you have problems dealing with reality.</p>
<p>Ok…I’ll bite. A family member here was expelled from an Ivy school for flunking out…twice. He got a job full time, and worked for SEVEN (and yes, I’m yelling because the OP doesn’t seem to hear) years…seven years. At the end of that 7 years, this individual decided he wanted to return to college…but had less than a stellar academic record. He enrolled at the local CC where he completed his general education requirements in about a year and a half. He then transferred to a four year program in engineering that happened to have a co-op program. It took over 12 years for him to get his bachelors degree. But that is what it took…time…time to grow up, time to figure out what he had to do to succeed, time to prove himself academically. TIME.</p>
<p>The name of the four year school doesn’t matter. What matters is the process this student took to get there. If he hadn’t done all of the intermediate things, the school would NOT have accepted him…period. </p>
<p>You seem to want a magic wand waved.</p>
<p>I know of some folks who also flunked out and then returned to 4 year colleges and graduated. I also know of some who never finished. This is an individual thing.</p>
<p>I think you OP need counseling. You do not want to accept the consequences of your actions, and are looking for some quick fix, which probably is not out there. Everyone who has a problem that is major and has a psychological component needs time to get to what caused the problem and to work on getting things better. You have become a habitual offender as they say. As thumper says, there is no magic wand. You seem to think that you are special and deserve special consideration, but you have not really shown why you deserve this consideration. Sure you are sorry that you will be punished, but so is every crook who gets caught. What you have shown is that you are not confident of your academic abilities, and if put in a pressured situation, you will cheat. You need to build confidence in your own skills and then get the rewards of your own work. Find something useful to do, show you are good at it, and then go from there.</p>
<p>Good luck. </p>
<p>Fall is too soon, bro. I am not saying that you are barred from college for life, but you need to set up a track record. No reputable college will let someone enroll immediately after being expelled for academic dishonesty with no intervening period or any evidence that they have changed in some way.</p>