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With respect to criminal charges, civil law violations, or local ordinance violations (excluding parking violations, but including all other tickets or citations, including those for moving violations) have you ever, as an adult or juvenile, been arrested, charged, convicted, issued a citation, or served probation, or paid restitution or served probation in lieu of being arrested, charged, convicted, or entering a plea (whether a plea of guilty or no contest)?
^DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN SPEEDING TICKETS???????????????????
^DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN SPEEDING TICKETS???????????????????
- quadsixm
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YesSusan_Walid wrote:With respect to criminal charges, civil law violations, or local ordinance violations (excluding parking violations, but including all other tickets or citations, including those for moving violations) have you ever, as an adult or juvenile, been arrested, charged, convicted, issued a citation, or served probation, or paid restitution or served probation in lieu of being arrested, charged, convicted, or entering a plea (whether a plea of guilty or no contest)?
^DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN SPEEDING TICKETS???????????????????
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*facepalm* Yes.but including all other tickets or citations, including those for moving violations
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Speeding tickets from high school until now?? Wow I don't have all of the dates 

- rinkrat19
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Um, yes.Susan_Walid wrote:Speeding tickets from high school until now?? Wow I don't have all of the dates
Anything you don't disclose now can come back to bite you in the ass come character & fitness time when you're trying to get admitted to the bar.
You need to do everything you possibly can to track down ALL your tickets. Contact the DMVs and/or courts in the jurisdictions in which you have been ticketed and request your records. It's all written down somewhere.
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Go to your local friendly DMV and buy a copy of your driving record. That should help you out with your date problem.
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I have maybe 3 speeding tickets, is this a problem?
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This has been discussed like eight million times.jpal13 wrote:I have maybe 3 speeding tickets, is this a problem?
No, not if you disclose them when asked.
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I think Tulane admitted a convicted murderer...jpal13 wrote:I have maybe 3 speeding tickets, is this a problem?
For C&F, lack of candor is most often, worse than the actual crime you omitted.
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Blessedassurance, I've never told you that I <3 your tar. Are you going to see the Tin Tin movie in December?Blessedassurance wrote:I think Tulane admitted a convicted murderer...jpal13 wrote:I have maybe 3 speeding tickets, is this a problem?
For C&F, lack of candor is most often, worse than the actual crime you omitted.
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Blessedassurance wrote:I think Tulane admitted a convicted murderer...jpal13 wrote:I have maybe 3 speeding tickets, is this a problem?
For C&F, lack of candor is most often, worse than the actual crime you omitted.
Confirming the Tulane murderer.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/201 ... ane_l.html
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oh my, and a professor too!
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Definitely, Tintin is way underrated in the US.rinkrat19 wrote:Blessedassurance, I've never told you that I <3 your tar. Are you going to see the Tin Tin movie in December?Blessedassurance wrote:I think Tulane admitted a convicted murderer...jpal13 wrote:I have maybe 3 speeding tickets, is this a problem?
For C&F, lack of candor is most often, worse than the actual crime you omitted.
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+1 I am excited to see it. Plus Peter Jackson is producing it and I will see anything that guy works on.Blessedassurance wrote:Definitely, Tintin is way underrated in the US.rinkrat19 wrote:Blessedassurance, I've never told you that I <3 your tar. Are you going to see the Tin Tin movie in December?Blessedassurance wrote:I think Tulane admitted a convicted murderer...jpal13 wrote:I have maybe 3 speeding tickets, is this a problem?
For C&F, lack of candor is most often, worse than the actual crime you omitted.
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I haven't seen all of his stuff but I fell asleep during LOTR (in the theater) and refused to suffer through the other two. Plus I think motion capture is more than a little creepy. But I'm seeing the Tin Tin movie anyway.Mal Reynolds wrote:+1 I am excited to see it. Plus Peter Jackson is producing it and I will see anything that guy works on.Blessedassurance wrote:Definitely, Tintin is way underrated in the US.rinkrat19 wrote:Blessedassurance, I've never told you that I <3 your tar. Are you going to see the Tin Tin movie in December?
I just got the DVDs of the early 90s cartoon and have been watching them. The PAL>NTSC transfer is awful but they're still cute.
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lol. You sure you want to do this law school thing?Susan_Walid wrote:With respect to criminal charges, civil law violations, or local ordinance violations (excluding parking violations, but including all other tickets or citations, including those for moving violations) have you ever, as an adult or juvenile, been arrested, charged, convicted, issued a citation, or served probation, or paid restitution or served probation in lieu of being arrested, charged, convicted, or entering a plea (whether a plea of guilty or no contest)?
^DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN SPEEDING TICKETS???????????????????
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Which law school is this? Any other schools (other than W&L) that want tickets?Susan_Walid wrote:With respect to criminal charges, civil law violations, or local ordinance violations (excluding parking violations, but including all other tickets or citations, including those for moving violations) have you ever, as an adult or juvenile, been arrested, charged, convicted, issued a citation, or served probation, or paid restitution or served probation in lieu of being arrested, charged, convicted, or entering a plea (whether a plea of guilty or no contest)?
^DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN SPEEDING TICKETS???????????????????
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- bouakedojo
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Disclose.
They don't care if you have traffic tickets and if you screw up the dates, it's not a big deal. The point is that you disclosed them.
They don't care if you have traffic tickets and if you screw up the dates, it's not a big deal. The point is that you disclosed them.
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Are there any Top 20 schools that have asked for this? I haven't been reading the question that closely and failed to disclose any speeding tickets for my apps so far.....
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Every app I have done asks something like this. Not all of them want speeding tickets, but they want every other violation. I'm afraid I'm having to admit that I hate renewing my tags. 

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Of the applications I submitted only NYU asked for traffic violations and such. Could have changed since.smokeylarue wrote:Are there any Top 20 schools that have asked for this? I haven't been reading the question that closely and failed to disclose any speeding tickets for my apps so far.....
You may want to reread your applications and submit an addendum if you forgot to include the tickets on an application. At any rate you should come clean before classes start. I doubt they would hold it against you.
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bouakedojo wrote:Disclose.
They don't care if you have traffic tickets and if you screw up the dates, it's not a big deal. The point is that you disclosed them.
+1
And, if you're not sure whether to disclose that parking/speeding/open container ticket, just disclose. My advice is to write one addendum including EVERYTHING, and submitting that to every school. It's better to be uniform and excessively thorough than trying to follow semantics with each individual school... and screwing it up.
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I re-read aps to see if they wanted speeding tix:yuzu wrote:Of the applications I submitted only NYU asked for traffic violations and such. Could have changed since.smokeylarue wrote:Are there any Top 20 schools that have asked for this? I haven't been reading the question that closely and failed to disclose any speeding tickets for my apps so far.....
You may want to reread your applications and submit an addendum if you forgot to include the tickets on an application. At any rate you should come clean before classes start. I doubt they would hold it against you.
NYU-no
Boalt-no
Stanford-no
harvard-no
Columbia-no
UCLA-no
U of C- no
Northwestern- no
- yuzu
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Kimberly wrote:I re-read aps to see if they wanted speeding tix:
NYU-no
I don't see any exception for speeding tickets, and I think they would be considered "offenses" under most definitions of a speeding ticket (e.g. "infraction"). This wouldn't include civil penalties such as Maryland speed camera tickets.NYU Fall 2012 App wrote:Have you ever, either as an adult or a juvenile, been charged with or convicted of any crime, or charged with or found to have committed any offense (whether or not defined as a crime), or are any such charges pending? This should include matters that have been expunged or dismissed.
I would (and did) disclose. Your interpretation may vary.
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I did not disclose on this and I do not intend to. It didn't even cross my mind at the time I read this to interpret as including moving violations. I dunno. You are certainly more safe on your interpretation than I am. But, under your interpretation, I hope you also disclosed parking tickets....yuzu wrote:Kimberly wrote:I re-read aps to see if they wanted speeding tix:
NYU-noI don't see any exception for speeding tickets, and I think they would be considered "offenses" under most definitions of a speeding ticket (e.g. "infraction"). This wouldn't include civil penalties such as Maryland speed camera tickets.NYU Fall 2012 App wrote:Have you ever, either as an adult or a juvenile, been charged with or convicted of any crime, or charged with or found to have committed any offense (whether or not defined as a crime), or are any such charges pending? This should include matters that have been expunged or dismissed.
I would (and did) disclose. Your interpretation may vary.
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