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do colleges do background checks?
Well this summer I made some stupid decisions and I got a fine for underage drinking. I am applying early to Brown University, and I was wondering if colleges do legal background checks on applicants?? I am really stressed about this
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Doubtful, but you can make a call to the admissions department tomorrow anonymously and ask them if they do background checks and such.
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Check your application materials.
For a college to legally do a criminal background check on their applicants, you MUST give them permission some place in those forms.
If you don't see it there, the school might still check out your academic history at high school, speak to the references you supplied, or look at you facebook and myspace pages, but without your permission they cannot get a criminal background check.
Many colleges do ask applicants for their permission to do criminal background checks, and even with that permission, many don't do them (they cost money after all). The best thing you can do if you find that your college requests permission is to call up an admissions officer and tell them the truth, tell them you knew it was dumb and ask them what you need to do about it.
Dollars to doughnuts they will tell you it’s not big deal, they are looking for violent criminals and deviants, not a teen who had a few beers.
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