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Just looking for some general advice.

When I was 18 years old, I was caught drinking in the dorms with a few friends in UG. I had to meet with my residential director and take a little on-line thing through the school, but was never arrested/charged with a crime and the police were not involved in any way. As far as I know, this incident is not on my record.

Is this something I would need to disclose to the bar / law school? My gut is telling me no, but I just wanted to play things on the safe side.

Always Disclose.... no school will give a shit but it can hurt you at C&F if you don't

Nope. Though if you do disclose they won't care (unless this was a recurring event).

barry wrote:Always Disclose.... no school will give a shit but it can hurt you at C&F if you don't

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Call the school to make sure that it's not on your record. If they confirm that there's no record of it, there's no issue!

RockyIII wrote:Just looking for some general advice.

When I was 18 years old, I was caught drinking in the dorms with a few friends in UG. I had to meet with my residential director and take a little on-line thing through the school, but was never arrested/charged with a crime and the police were not involved in any way. As far as I know, this incident is not on my record.

Is this something I would need to disclose to the bar / law school? My gut is telling me no, but I just wanted to play things on the safe side.

Contact your college and get a letter from the dean confirming their disciplinary procedures and that you don't need to disclose it. After you get into the school of your choice, go to the law school dean and disclose out of an abundance of caution. On the first day they typically have a "now is the time to disclose things" session.

Sorry should have specified, already have seat deposit down at a school.

RockyIII wrote:Just looking for some general advice.

When I was 18 years old, I was caught drinking in the dorms with a few friends in UG. I had to meet with my residential director and take a little on-line thing through the school, but was never arrested/charged with a crime and the police were not involved in any way. As far as I know, this incident is not on my record.

Is this something I would need to disclose to the bar / law school? My gut is telling me no, but I just wanted to play things on the safe side.

FWIW I got accepted to a number of good schools with a page full of stupid crap like this, and many others do too. Not a C&F issue=nobody cares, and they will appreciate your forthrightness. That said, I think it looks silly to disclose things they didn't ask for. Don't disclose if the app doesn't contain language asking if you've ever received a University "warning or reprimand" or something similar. Your situation sounds like a reprimand to me. Why risk appearing dishonest when, again, nobody cares.

loblaw wrote:FWIW I got accepted to a number of good schools with a page full of stupid crap like this, and many others do too. Not a C&F issue=nobody cares, and they will appreciate your forthrightness. That said, I think it looks silly to disclose things they didn't ask for. Don't disclose if the app doesn't contain language asking if you've ever received a University "warning or reprimand" or something similar. Your situation sounds like a reprimand to me. Why risk appearing dishonest when, again, nobody cares.

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Double check the app and follow suit. its not a big deal!

Disclose Disclose Disclose

Kohinoor wrote:

RockyIII wrote:Just looking for some general advice.

When I was 18 years old, I was caught drinking in the dorms with a few friends in UG. I had to meet with my residential director and take a little on-line thing through the school, but was never arrested/charged with a crime and the police were not involved in any way. As far as I know, this incident is not on my record.

Is this something I would need to disclose to the bar / law school? My gut is telling me no, but I just wanted to play things on the safe side.

Contact your college and get a letter from the dean confirming their disciplinary procedures and that you don't need to disclose it. After you get into the school of your choice, go to the law school dean and disclose out of an abundance of caution. On the first day they typically have a "now is the time to disclose things" session.

really?

zla2014 wrote:Call the school to make sure that it's not on your record. If they confirm that there's no record of it, there's no issue!

Never take information given in a phone call at face value...even if advised in writing it does not exist, the record DOES exist tangentially by virtue of the letter of inquiry (which will be saved on a server somewhere).

In this day and age of older records being imaged, it is not at all uncommon to be told verbally that something does not exist only to find out it DID and DOES exist but was not on the computer at the time of the conversation. While not college-related, I know we have had records in a District Clerk's office that pre-dated their imaging process...and despite being told they were unable to locate the file due to a flood in the basement several years earlier, the website soon had the full imaged history of a case from 1980 or 1981.

Perch wrote: really?

Really.

jkay wrote:

Perch wrote: really?

Really.

What kinda things do you disclose? Like I said I worked 30 hrs a week during undergrad but it was more like 20?