Re-applying for college

[Labor Shall Rule]

I've never used this forum as a venue to express my personal problems or to ask people how to resolve them. But I figured it would be interesting to hear what some of you (particularly those who are in college) think of my situation.

Last year, I was caught with weed in my dorm and was put on career probation. I never learned from that, and when I came back the next semester I continued to make bad decisions and started selling out of my apartment on campus. The police busted me and I was suspended for three semesters by my school's committee of fact. While I have since got "clean" and landed two food delivery jobs, I can't help but feel depressed over the prospect of not being able to return to school for over a year. My goal is to get into somewhere else, if possible.

Does anyone have experience (or know someone else who has) with being suspended and trying to re-apply elsewhere? How hard is it to get into other schools with a bad disciplinary record?

[TC]

I don't have any experience with that myself, but I would suggest that you might want to apply to schools that do not require you to disclose other universities you've attended, and you might want to apply to many universities with an addendum explaining how you've learned and grown from the experience (while also minimizing the seriousness of what you did...and lets face it, what you did would be non-criminal in some locations, it harmed no one, and plenty of school admissions officers are probably sympathetic).

Maybe you should ask your old highschool college advisor or the admissions officers at your former university.

[Decolonize The Left]

I don't have any experience with that myself, but I would suggest that you might want to apply to schools that do not require you to disclose other universities you've attended, and you might want to apply to many universities with an addendum explaining how you've learned and grown from the experience (while also minimizing the seriousness of what you did...and lets face it, what you did would be non-criminal in some locations, it harmed no one, and plenty of school admissions officers are probably sympathetic).

Maybe you should ask your old highschool college advisor or the admissions officers at your former university.

Definitely this. Just keep looking around and doing your research. You should be able to find a school that will take you with little hassle.

- August

[PhoenixAsh]

Good advice here. I do not know how it pens out in the US...those rules are ridiculous in my eyes and it is not a problem you encounter much in Holland, certainly not with weed...but I wish you the best of luck.

[Johnny Kerosene]

What TC said and if that doesn't work out, you can at least be happy you didn't get a prison sentence.

[TC]

One really messed up thing in America is that if you have a drug conviction (its not clear if you have one or not) you often lose the opportunity to take out federally backed educational loans (rape or murder someone and you can get all the loans you want once paroled though :p) .

[Labor Shall Rule]

I'm still able to get federal aid for this upcoming semester since my last charge was dropped to a disorderly conduct, but since I plead guilty to a paraphernalia (they dropped my possession with intent to deliver) charge I probably won't be able to get it next year. A big part of me going to my last school was that my mom was a professor there, so I benefited from the tuition waiver benefit she received and didn't have to take out a lot of money. I'm no longer eligible for that because of my disciplinary record. So, that's what really sucks for me.

[Labor Shall Rule]

Didn't get accepted into the last school I applied to, my college grades were a major factor. Which leads me to my next question.

Instead of going to schools that don't require you to disclose your past universities that you attended, why not just apply as a first year student and then transfer your credits a year later? My mom told me that she's heard of nursing students doing this from community colleges that they were previously at.

edit: yes, I'm insinuating that you don't say that you went to school somewhere else. Good idea or bad idea?