Reply #50: No, I'm not, although many years ago I worked at UW. But this student had

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not even been suspended, much less expelled. He has no black mark on his record so far. If he withdrew for treatment, therefore, there would be nothing but a withdrawal noted on his record, which many students have for various reasons (money, sick relatives, mono, etc.,) -- and which wouldn't prevent him from transferring to another college. I don't know about GW (and neither do you), but at my son's college, if a student were asked to take a medical leave for counseling, he would also have had the option to return to that college after treatment.