will a highschool suspension hurt me a lot?

lucifer11287
Sun, 24 Apr 2005 04:37:33 +0000

1st thing I’d do is fight it tooth and nail. Having to explain your suspensions is never a fun thing to do. Fortunately for you, you didn’t actually hurt anyone. However, your suspension still seems to bring your integrity into question (very different froma suspension for a cell phone, drinking, smoking, other stupid things). As long as you apply to a few schools where you won’t have to list your suspension (Michigan comes to mind as a great school that doesn’t ask about suspensions that aren’t cheating related and didn’t/couldn’t have hurt anyone) you should be fine. Make sure your counselor’s story matches up with yours EXACTLY and try to get them to paint a favorable picture. Depending on how well crafted your school’s rules are, you might be able to appeal successfully or go to court and win, though at most schools the rules are so vague that you have little/no chance of getting a successful appeal.

A suspension isn’t damning, though. I managed to get into Cornell after getting a 10 day suspension for drinking at a dance.

If you have time, try to do something (not sure what you could do in your case) that shows you have seriously changed your ways (ie if you were drinking joining SADD or whatever).