Help! Alcohol Offense and Admissions

NJres
Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:01:26 +0000

If you want some thoughtful comments on your situation, try posting in the parents forum. I am wondering what the exact nature of your offense was, and whether your applications had specific questions about legal violations. If you had received a ticket for jaywalking would you be required to report that to colleges? If you were ticketed for violating the terms of a provisional license (having more than one unrelated minor in the car with you) would that need to be reported to colleges? I seriously doubt the several DOZENS of kids in my town cited for underage drinking reported the offense on their college apps. :rolleyes: I guess you can see where I stand on this: I see no need to volunteer the information. BUT, if there is a very specific question on the app that you can no longer honestly answer “NO” to, it gets a little sticky.

There was a precedent set some years ago when Harvard accepted a young woman and later withdrew that acceptance when they learned that she had lied about her criminal record. Well, she had bludgeoned her mother to death at the age of 14.