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Hello everyone,

I was hoping to start a thread of schools who only ask for criminal convictions as opposed to any and all criminal background. Going to many Law School websites I find that many app's are hidden until I register for LSAC.

Would anyone have a partial (as we could continue to add to this thread) or full list of schools who only want to know what you were convicted for?

Thanks! I greatly for your time!

I would love to have this information, too.

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Great list so far everyone. Good info about the Cali schools. I had a few of them on my list - so this helped a bunch.

Can anyone add any others that ask for convictions only on the app?

I think this would be super helpful to many people on here. I, for one, have a 20 year old Misd. charge that I had dismissed that I would love to not try and explain away. Let's try to get a full list here.

Thanks everyone!

Mr. T wrote:Great list so far everyone. Good info about the Cali schools. I had a few of them on my list - so this helped a bunch.

Can anyone add any others that ask for convictions only on the app?

I think this would be super helpful to many people on here. I, for one, have a 20 year old Misd. charge that I had dismissed that I would love to not try and explain away. Let's try to get a full list here.

Thanks everyone!

Just fyi, from all the info I have gathered about this, as long as it was nothing serious, and it got resolved without a conviction you're almost surely fine. 20 years is a long time. Generally when deciding whether or not to disclose, this article was pretty helpful:

http://www.annaivey.com/iveyfiles/2009/ ... plications

shadowfrost000 wrote:Out of the ones I applied to:

BC
BU
Cardozo
Columbia
Georgetown
Michigan
NU
Penn
UCLA
USC
Virginia
Vanderbilt

Like other poster said, all CA schools are forced to ask for convictions only.

Schools that asked for arrest/charges:

Duke
NYU
Fordham
Cornell
GWU
WUSTL

I just looked at which ones I had to write attachments for Really annoying because I was acquitted without trial.

Actually, Vanderbilt does ask for charges. Also, HYS does not.

Anyone else have schools to add to this list?

When these law schools ask for "convictions," would we disclose adjudications from when we were under the age of 18?

Also if it was a long time ago Harvard and BU only ask for misdemeanor convictions from the last 5 years. BU will want older misdemeanors if it resulted in jail time, but if it was a petty misdemeanor from 10 years ago they don't even want to know about it.

Mr. T wrote:Anyone else have schools to add to this list?

UNLV
UT (do not need to disclose convictions if expunged - but says to disclose deferred adjudication)

BTW Yale does ask for disclosure if you pled guilty to a crime, so that would mean disclosing pleas that involve deferred adjudication or stays of proceedings.

Thought this might be good to start up again - any lists of schools only asking for convictions would be a great help!

You realize that every state bar application will require you to disclose arrests and charges as well as convictions, don't you?

Yes, I do. But this thread is trying to determine what law schools only ask for convictions.

Back on topic, one school I did find that only asks for convictions (filling out the app last night) is the Univ of Arkansas, Little Rock.

Please add others if you know of any! Thanks!