Yep - hearing you. I can understand universities liking the extra curricular activities on UCAS forms to show what an interesting and well rounded individual the applicant is - in the same vein as a job applicant exaggerating their activities on their CVs to make themselves look good : /Otter wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 1:09 pmI've always wondered this.Pe.A wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:14 amI must admit i am a little in the dark as to how a university would figure things out - do they get records/references from the school etc? Would those records/references state the reason for the expulsion etc? (In which case it would surely take a hard puritanical heart to judge someone dismissed for being caught with their trousers down/dress up in a discriminatory way?) Or would they figure things out from the disjointed dates between attendance and dates the grades were awarded...?
Is there such thing as a "school record" that gets sent to the uni along with the UCAS application? I also wonder if there would now be GDPR implications if so.
A DBS criminal record certificate is one thing, where it's an official and standardised legal document that can be requested in certain defined situations. But I'm not aware of the same being true of a "school record", if there is such a thing. Maybe I'm way off, but the only formal school record I'm aware of is my GSCE and A-Level certificates, musical instrument grade certificates, etc. I doubt there is a school record à la enhanced DBS check containing every late homework submission, drill, detention, yellow card, and so on?
But i can't for the life of me see how it would make that much of a difference in a prospective undergraduate - unless the expulsion was accompanied with a criminal record