Incoming freshman at a top target. But there’s a unfortunate twist that may affect my candidacy for SA/FT gig

Hello all,I am an incoming student at a top-target school and very interested in pursuing IB/PE in the future. There's one catch though: During my freshman year of high school, I attended a very strict Catholic school, and I had a behavioral disciplinary. Now, if I had done this in a public school, I would most likely only get detention. However, my school suspended me for 1 day as a result of what happened(Suspension is the second worse punishment-- right before expulsion). Yes, it was very childish and dumb, and I had/have learned my lesson: don't do anything stupid or foolish with your friends.Now, this high school disciplinary didn't seem to affect me when I applied to colleges this year. However, I am worried that I will get dinged if companies look at my high school transcript for background checks.

Does anyone have any insight to this?

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Definitely has to be a troll... if people got screwed over for middle school and high school infractions a lot of people wouldnt be working most jobs.

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It's not a troll. I'm genuinely asking because I have no clue. If I did, wouldn’t be on WSO writing this rn.

The issue is it’s on my transcript. It literally states “suspended for behavioral infraction”.

 

You're fine as long as it was a crime that you were convicted for. Also, I don't even know how to get access to my high school transcript. Nobody gives a fuck about that

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Yes, but I just don't know if high school transcript is asked for during background check. Maybe I'm geeking out too much but not too sure what will happen..

I’ve never had a request for HS transcripts when applying to jobs post college. I went to 5 high schools so it would be a large pain.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

it won't come up during your background check, HS transcript is not part of that. If your top-tier university didn't even care, no one else will. 

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