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Anonymous wrote:He will most likely be fine. The schools want transcripts and won't be asking too many questions beyond that.

This.

This is my gut feeling. He changed schools. His parents are overseas. Stuff happens for all sorts of reasons.

I would have a serious heart-to-heart with yourself about whether or not he's ready for college, though.

Posters are not considering that the private boarding schools are responsible for their students 24/7. If a public school kid made the same infraction outside of school hours, it’s a parent issue, not a school issue and therefore, never mentioned on a transcript. Private schools do have a 3 strikes your out view. Otherwise, kids would be breaking rules constantly without repercussions.

Cmon OP. What did the little shit do?

OP, you've already gotten a lot of advice so I'll just add one other aspect here: Your DC had better hope that none of the other students involved in the incident (or just students at the school who weren't involved) have posted about it on social media, shared any names, shared any photos, named the school, complained about being asked to "withdraw" if they were asked, etc.

Colleges increasingly look at students' social media accounts. Even if your own DC has no accounts or didn't post on ones he does have, well, there is always the chance, however slim it seems, that social media posts about an incident serious enough to get students expelled-but-not-expelled could end up on colleges' radar somehow. Some here will scoff, I know!, but you need to consider this aspect. If this was about vaping (earlier example someone gave) that's less of an issue but if this involved, say, vandalism or a public disturbance or whatever--that could end up being talked about online. Sure, it's not very likely these EA colleges which have already said yes will go look at social media. But it's amazing, how kids and parents don't realize what seeps online.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who was asked to withdraw from a boarding school, any selective school will want something more than a vague one sentence. (You should check the application for some statement that the applicant had not withdrawn from a school to avoid discipline.)

If there is any relationship between the boarding school and the college, the college will get, at least, some suggestion of what happened.

were your initials FA?

Neither then nor now.

Anonymous wrote:As someone who was asked to withdraw from a boarding school, any selective school will want something more than a vague one sentence. (You should check the application for some statement that the applicant had not withdrawn from a school to avoid discipline.)

If there is any relationship between the boarding school and the college, the college will get, at least, some suggestion of what happened.

were your initials FA?

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Anonymous wrote:I will be honest…admission probably should be rescinded.

No boarding school is EXPELLING a kid final semester of senior year for anything other than a major incident.

Parent of a boarding school kid and this is not true at all. DC's school is strict and seems to like making examples of 17/18 year old kids who made a mistake. There have been a couple of seniors who have been asked to withdraw like OP's this year and every year we have been there.

Give an example please. What did a kid do that made them have to withdraw.

Example 1. Vaping 2nd offense is one 4.0 unweighted GPA student with multiple leadership roles in EC's.

Example 2. Group of seniors got caught skipping class. One lied about who else was with them to protect their GF/BF. School disciplined all the kids. Kicked out /forced withdrawal the one who lied to protect their GF/BF and suspended the one who suggested the kid lie. The one who was suspended for suggesting the first kid lie also has this on their permanent record that will go to colleges.

OP said it happened off-campus somewhere...just curious if vaping down at the town square on a Saturday and seen by the headmaster would get you expelled, or only on school property.

The vaping seems extreme...the lying, I kind of understand. It is a boarding school...how do you even legitimately "skip" class...say you are sick?

Wow, Iam so curious about what he did.
For what it's worth, sometimes schools overseas close, or have different cultural or other standards and people know this

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will be honest…admission probably should be rescinded.

No boarding school is EXPELLING a kid final semester of senior year for anything other than a major incident.

Parent of a boarding school kid and this is not true at all. DC's school is strict and seems to like making examples of 17/18 year old kids who made a mistake. There have been a couple of seniors who have been asked to withdraw like OP's this year and every year we have been there.

Give an example please. What did a kid do that made them have to withdraw.

Example 1. Vaping 2nd offense is one 4.0 unweighted GPA student with multiple leadership roles in EC's.

Example 2. Group of seniors got caught skipping class. One lied about who else was with them to protect their GF/BF. School disciplined all the kids. Kicked out /forced withdrawal the one who lied to protect their GF/BF and suspended the one who suggested the kid lie. The one who was suspended for suggesting the first kid lie also has this on their permanent record that will go to colleges.

So, very valid reasons. No college should want a student with substance abuse problems or a liar.

Oh please, no public school is putting anything on a kids record for these types of issues. Get on the public school forums and read about cases of assault where kids aren't disciplined or criminally charged and the victims are the ones who have to move schools.

Oh please. "But look what he did" is not an excuse for your kid's reprehensible behavior.

Either you are a troll or you don't have a teenage kid. Kids make dumb mistakes. They need to be disciplined and educated not kicked out for minor offenses. We don't know what OP's kid did. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't.

Not a troll. I have two current teens and two former teens (in their early 20s.)
I don't consider a second time getting caught (because surely it wasn't the second "offense" ) vaping to be minor.
Skipping school is bad enough, but lying when you get caught is even worse.
If they haven't figured that out by senior year they have no business going to college.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will be honest…admission probably should be rescinded.

No boarding school is EXPELLING a kid final semester of senior year for anything other than a major incident.

Parent of a boarding school kid and this is not true at all. DC's school is strict and seems to like making examples of 17/18 year old kids who made a mistake. There have been a couple of seniors who have been asked to withdraw like OP's this year and every year we have been there.

Give an example please. What did a kid do that made them have to withdraw.

Example 1. Vaping 2nd offense is one 4.0 unweighted GPA student with multiple leadership roles in EC's.

Example 2. Group of seniors got caught skipping class. One lied about who else was with them to protect their GF/BF. School disciplined all the kids. Kicked out /forced withdrawal the one who lied to protect their GF/BF and suspended the one who suggested the kid lie. The one who was suspended for suggesting the first kid lie also has this on their permanent record that will go to colleges.

So, very valid reasons. No college should want a student with substance abuse problems or a liar.

Oh please, no public school is putting anything on a kids record for these types of issues. Get on the public school forums and read about cases of assault where kids aren't disciplined or criminally charged and the victims are the ones who have to move schools.

Oh please. "But look what he did" is not an excuse for your kid's reprehensible behavior.

Either you are a troll or you don't have a teenage kid. Kids make dumb mistakes. They need to be disciplined and educated not kicked out for minor offenses. We don't know what OP's kid did. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will be honest…admission probably should be rescinded.

No boarding school is EXPELLING a kid final semester of senior year for anything other than a major incident.

Parent of a boarding school kid and this is not true at all. DC's school is strict and seems to like making examples of 17/18 year old kids who made a mistake. There have been a couple of seniors who have been asked to withdraw like OP's this year and every year we have been there.

Give an example please. What did a kid do that made them have to withdraw.

Example 1. Vaping 2nd offense is one 4.0 unweighted GPA student with multiple leadership roles in EC's.

Example 2. Group of seniors got caught skipping class. One lied about who else was with them to protect their GF/BF. School disciplined all the kids. Kicked out /forced withdrawal the one who lied to protect their GF/BF and suspended the one who suggested the kid lie. The one who was suspended for suggesting the first kid lie also has this on their permanent record that will go to colleges.

So, very valid reasons. No college should want a student with substance abuse problems or a liar.

So, you pay all that money, the school failed to make a good student out of your kid and they f'd up your kid's future and you approve!

Well no, not MY kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Probably. You’d obviously need to disclose this.

Probably as in he will probably get rescinded? Should they disclose this to schools they have already heard back from, or to all the schools they have yet to hear from? I thought that all the online school would need to do is send his transcript at the end of the school year after they have heard back from all schools, at what point would they indicate rescindment?

Any changes is enrollment need to be reported to all schools applied to, whether the school has issued a decision yet or not. The impact this may have on any decisions, both those already made and those pending, is something no one here can tell you for sure.

Does it really say that somewhere? That you need to report a change in enrollment? I thought colleges just needed proof of graduation so a final transcript. I wouldn’t offer information unless asked. And in this case I’d be tempted to lie and say a medical issue made them return home and finish online. Or maybe a personal issue.

I’m pretty sure that when my kid applied, the applications did say that any changes related to the transcript (so dropping a class, switching courses, moving down from Honors to standard, etc.) had to be reported. After all, those things are a huge part of what admissions decisions are based on. I’d be surprised if the kid weren’t more likely to be rescinded for NOT reporting, when the college finds out it thought it was accepting a kid from School A and a transcript shows up verifying graduation from School B. Technically, that’s a lie on the part of the applicant.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will be honest…admission probably should be rescinded.

No boarding school is EXPELLING a kid final semester of senior year for anything other than a major incident.

Parent of a boarding school kid and this is not true at all. DC's school is strict and seems to like making examples of 17/18 year old kids who made a mistake. There have been a couple of seniors who have been asked to withdraw like OP's this year and every year we have been there.

Give an example please. What did a kid do that made them have to withdraw.

Example 1. Vaping 2nd offense is one 4.0 unweighted GPA student with multiple leadership roles in EC's.

Example 2. Group of seniors got caught skipping class. One lied about who else was with them to protect their GF/BF. School disciplined all the kids. Kicked out /forced withdrawal the one who lied to protect their GF/BF and suspended the one who suggested the kid lie. The one who was suspended for suggesting the first kid lie also has this on their permanent record that will go to colleges.

So, very valid reasons. No college should want a student with substance abuse problems or a liar.

So, you pay all that money, the school failed to make a good student out of your kid and they f'd up your kid's future and you approve!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will be honest…admission probably should be rescinded.

No boarding school is EXPELLING a kid final semester of senior year for anything other than a major incident.

Parent of a boarding school kid and this is not true at all. DC's school is strict and seems to like making examples of 17/18 year old kids who made a mistake. There have been a couple of seniors who have been asked to withdraw like OP's this year and every year we have been there.

Give an example please. What did a kid do that made them have to withdraw.

Example 1. Vaping 2nd offense is one 4.0 unweighted GPA student with multiple leadership roles in EC's.

Example 2. Group of seniors got caught skipping class. One lied about who else was with them to protect their GF/BF. School disciplined all the kids. Kicked out /forced withdrawal the one who lied to protect their GF/BF and suspended the one who suggested the kid lie. The one who was suspended for suggesting the first kid lie also has this on their permanent record that will go to colleges.

So, very valid reasons. No college should want a student with substance abuse problems or a liar.

Oh please, no public school is putting anything on a kids record for these types of issues. Get on the public school forums and read about cases of assault where kids aren't disciplined or criminally charged and the victims are the ones who have to move schools.

Oh please. "But look what he did" is not an excuse for your kid's reprehensible behavior.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will be honest…admission probably should be rescinded.

No boarding school is EXPELLING a kid final semester of senior year for anything other than a major incident.

Parent of a boarding school kid and this is not true at all. DC's school is strict and seems to like making examples of 17/18 year old kids who made a mistake. There have been a couple of seniors who have been asked to withdraw like OP's this year and every year we have been there.

Give an example please. What did a kid do that made them have to withdraw.

Example 1. Vaping 2nd offense is one 4.0 unweighted GPA student with multiple leadership roles in EC's.

Example 2. Group of seniors got caught skipping class. One lied about who else was with them to protect their GF/BF. School disciplined all the kids. Kicked out /forced withdrawal the one who lied to protect their GF/BF and suspended the one who suggested the kid lie. The one who was suspended for suggesting the first kid lie also has this on their permanent record that will go to colleges.

So, very valid reasons. No college should want a student with substance abuse problems or a liar.

Oh please, no public school is putting anything on a kids record for these types of issues. Get on the public school forums and read about cases of assault where kids aren't disciplined or criminally charged and the victims are the ones who have to move schools.