[Lillyleaf]

SO I'm applying for college and I had to tell them that I have been asked or forced to leave a school setting.

They want me to write "an explanation of the disciplinary violation, date, location of incident (institution, city, state, country), institutional disposition (date, outcome, disciplinary action taken), current status of institutional sanctions. In addition, please address what you have learned from this experience, how this has affected your life, and what you will do differently if given the opportunity to enroll at Illinois State. Please note that we may need to request additional information including permissions for access to institutional records." and send it to them.

That goes right into my mental health because each of those suspensions/ referral were directly related to suicide attempts.

I called my T no answer yet
I called the ADA They aren't taking calls for a few days
I called the admissions office, no answer and no email address
I called my HS councilor, no answer
I called the suicide hotline, told me to ask my T.

Can they do this too me? Must I always live in the past? Am I really that much of a danger?

[mazing]

I'm sorry you are going through this. College applications can be quite invasive at times but they can also use the information to help you if you do get in. They generally want to know that you are doing ok now. Although the questions are a bit tricky in this case as they generally would relate to behavioural suspensions and not mental health concerns.

It seems you have done all of the right things in trying to talk to people so I really encourage you to keep trying to contact your T and the admissions office. They can guide you through it and help you with the application so that you say what you need to but it doesn't give away personal information that they really don't need to know.

[Douglas MacNeill]

Originally Posted by Lillyleaf

SO I'm applying for college and I had to tell them that I have been asked or forced to leave a school setting.

They want me to write "an explanation of the disciplinary violation, date, location of incident (institution, city, state, country), institutional disposition (date, outcome, disciplinary action taken), current status of institutional sanctions. In addition, please address what you have learned from this experience, how this has affected your life, and what you will do differently if given the opportunity to enroll at Illinois State. Please note that we may need to request additional information including permissions for access to institutional records." and send it to them.

That goes right into my mental health because each of those suspensions/ referral were directly related to suicide attempts.

I called my T no answer yet
I called the ADA They aren't taking calls for a few days
I called the admissions office, no answer and no email address
I called my HS councilor, no answer
I called the suicide hotline, told me to ask my T.

Can they do this too me? Must I always live in the past? Am I really that much of a danger?

I hope that the good people at Illinois State will pay more
attention to the suicide attempts (and the depression associated
with them) than to the consequences of them (suspension or
expulsion). If post-secondary schools are going to take the
phenomena of mental illness and the stigma associated with
mental illness seriously, your case sounds like an ideal way
for Illinois State University to start walking the walk (as
opposed to merely talking the talk about mental illness).

Good luck, Lilyleaf; may justice prevail.