<p>(I know this is like my billionth random question, but bear with me…)</p>
<p>Okay, so I have a pyschiatric condition that I thought was over and done with. But I’m pretty sure I’m relapsing… I’m not like crazy or anything, I can function perfectly fine, but if this continues at school can they kick me out? I read in one of the handbooks that a school health center can force you to withdraw. How bad do you have to get to be at that point?</p>
<p>You’d probably have to overdose on prescription medication, hurt yourself, hurt someone else, or start failing classes before they’d ask you to withdraw - however, at Andover, instead of asking you to withdraw, Isham/Graham House/the administration would probably just recommend you take a term (or up to a year) of absence.</p>
<p>This article was published in 2003. The policies may have changed since then.</p>
<p>[ON</a> EDUCATION - ON EDUCATION - Counseling at Phillips, And Its Consequences - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/09/nyregion/on-education-counseling-at-phillips-and-its-consequences.html?scp=4&sq=phillips%20academy%20suicide&st=cse]ON”>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/09/nyregion/on-education-counseling-at-phillips-and-its-consequences.html?scp=4&sq=phillips%20academy%20suicide&st=cse)</p>
<p>Don’t specify your condition online, please! It’s none of our business! In my opinion, though, there is such a wide range of psychiatric conditions, it’s almost impossible for us to predict what a school might do. The best thing to do would be for you and your parents to make an appointment to meet with the school’s director of counseling, and ask him or her, “how can we best handle this condition at this school?” Allowing the director of counseling to speak with your medical team at home would also help, I should think.</p>
<p>A friend’s anorectic daughter is doing well at a boarding school. The school knew about the condition before admission, and communicates frequently with her parents. It is possible to attend boarding school with psychiatric conditions, but (in my opinion) it’s best to inform the school’s counselors.</p>
<p>Life as a boarder is stressful and there is no privacy. If nothing else, alerting the school to a possible psychiatric condition would allow the school to try to match you with the best roommate possible, perhaps even a single, if there is such a thing.</p>
<p>Its not like I can’t cope with a roommate- I would be just like a normal student. But I didn’t tell any of the schools about it, and my mom said on the parent statement I had never been hospitalized or in therapy (both untrue). I just thought it would be over by then.</p>
<p>Hiya Bamagirl95,
I thought i would put in my 2 “bits” in this thread because i have actualy been in this situation before and i will give you the straight truth, I would strongly suggest letting the schools know about any problems or medical issues that you may have this is why, i was at a boarding school a year ago and i was “let go” im not going to say why but it was due to “family issues”. Not that we were not telling anythign wrong in our application we never thought it was "nessesary’ to tell them. If you do not tell the school upfront about any issues and if they come accross a issue or problem with you about something that you never told them they will let you go. They will look at a little issue or something very moderate and if you do anything wrong or have any issues and they look in your background and there is proff that you may have medical or pyschiatric issues they will let you go because they will tell you that “they do not have the resources to deal with your situation” with me i got let go due to some small family issues and they over- exaderated it and when the time came that i did talk to a pyschiatrist they found out that there was actualy nothing wrong with me and that i was normal, but at that time it was too late. So my advise to you is make sure that the schools are well aware of your issues before they find out about them themselves.</p>
<p>Tell the truth, even when it’s hard. You will respect yourself. I hope that you can find a way to come clean with the school. And bamagirl95, don’t share this sort of information on line. Find other private and reliable sources of advice.</p>
<p>if anything it is “best” not to hide things from boarding schools because they have ways to find information out.</p>
<p>Tell the school as soon as possible. Because lying on an application to hide something is a serious issue.</p>
<p>The school has to not only protect you and act as your “parent in absentia” but they are responsible for protecting the other students and their staff as well.</p>
<p>Lying on an application could be grounds for dismissal.</p>