help! - Disciplinary Probation and application

[yankees217]

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Recently, I was slapped with disciplinary probation for violating my campus's acceptable use policy of the internet. I was cleaning out my hard drive and had unintentionally opened a program that I was unfamiliar with (the program was P2P software, as I discovered soon after) , and left the computer, and while I was gone, I had seeded a movie via bittorent. Unfortunately, this was traced by my university back to me, and I was handed a ban from campus internet for the next several months as well as disciplinary probation for a year for violating copyright infringement.

Now the internet ban is a nuisance, but I can live with that. What I'm concerned with is how this would potentially affect my application for dental school. It's not like I sold marijuana out of a dorm room or committed academic fraud, but it's still a violation of rules.

I spoke to an adviser at school already, and he didn't seem to know much. On the dental school application, it asks if I were previously on probation. If I answer honestly and truthfully, would this hurt my application? Would some schools potentially skip over my application because of this 'red flag'?

 

[aphorth88]

I spoke to an adviser at school already, and he didn't seem to know much. On the dental school application, it asks if I were previously on probation. If I answer honestly and truthfully, would this hurt my application? Would some schools potentially skip over my application because of this 'red flag'?

you are going to have to be honest on the application. because i just finished submitting my "Disclosure of Disciplinary Action" forms to all the schools I've attended last week. now i dont know if all dental schools are requiring this for everyone that's been accepted to their school. but i'll tell you that ucsf requires it. so whether you're honest or not, the school that you attended are gonna be honest cause one of the questions asks if the student has been on probation

 

[MTBtony]

Just make sure to include it on the right places on your app. I had a situation where I was accused of plagiarism, although it was simply that I had not included quotation marks around the quoted phrases, but the in-text citation was still there. I included it on my AADSAS and all my secondaries, and it only came up once during any interviews. When it came up, he just asked about it and said it was no problem, just wanted to see how I learned from it (learning experience).

Honestly, it all depends on how the school views it. I'm assuming most will just glance at it and not think twice about it. But also, there are the schools out there that may look at it as an ethical deal, with piracy and what not. I wouldn't be stressed about it too much, but at least be able to explain it at an interview and basically just use it as a learning experience.

Trust me when I say that there have been WAY worse things included on the disciplinary section and they still got accepted.