Found Elusive Anecdote of What Can Happen if You Don't Disclose All Previous Colleges

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I found more examples.

I tried this once. I got accepted to the university and had forgotten to include a transcript from a summer community college course that I'd taken as a freshman in high school. I genuinely forgot to include it.

Anyhow I got a call saying that my acceptance was revoked, and when I visited the administrative office to try and explain, they accused me outright of deliberately covering it up in order to improve my chances of getting into their university (the grade had been a C, which lowered my overall GPA by just a smidge).

I was allowed to appeal their decision, but my appeal was rejected. And that's the story of how I was kicked out of university before I ever got to attend a single class (but not, I'm happy to say, before I'd already gotten my school ID, so I did wind up being able to draw upon some benefits).

I work with transfer students. What mskyle says is true, and I have actually been involved in a situation where a student got kicked out of my university because she didn't disclose one of the other institutions she had attended. Her case is more worst-case though, because she had been dismissed from that institution.

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I don't know if this university has only caught omissions because of transfer credits found on a submitted transcript.

At the university where I work, the registrar's office often catches undeclared transcripts and will reject an admissions application until all transcripts are submitted. You might be able to get away with classes that did not transfer, but if you transferred any credit to another school, it usually shows up on the transcript.

Did you ever exclude any schools you attended from your application? Consequences?

Here is something official.

Below said 95 percent of all college attendance records are documented in the National Student Clearinghouse, a centralized database in the U.S. If a student applies at Southeast who did not just graduate from high school, Southeast has access to the National Student Clearinghouse system, called Student Tracker, which allows Southeast to view other colleges and universities that a student attended.

"On a college side we want to know everywhere they have attended," Below said. "I don't think all universities go to that extent and check the National Student Clearinghouse the same way, but we do because we know it's common for students to not disclose all the universities that they have attended. However, on an international landscape, obviously there is not a centralized database that tells us if a student has attended somewhere else."

The Arrow: Local News: University officials say they correctly followed admission process in Nafis case (11/05/12)