Rule number one when being pulled over: be respectful and not memorable.
The respect may get you out of a ticket, and making the cop take a special interest in your case is never a good idea. Having a ticket during the background check wouldn't have shown up, but you may have this show up.
Not to argue with what others have posted, but sometimes you can get a ticket and it be a misdemeanor without the processing, arrest, and so forth. Some states just consider traffic tickets to be "misdemeanors" instead of moving violations. This came up for me last year, as a moving violation that wasn't anything near 80 in a 40, came up as a misdemeanor on my background check. A respectful and apologetic email to the admissions committee was all that was needed in my case. Granted, it was a past case and my trespass was not realizing it to be a misdemeanor and failing to list it on amcas, whereas your situation is explaining getting it now. The irony is that had you just been respectful and gotten a ticket, it wouldn't have been worth mentioning.
I would write an email to your admissions people and advise them of what's going on and see if you need to write a more formal letter officially letting them know of the situation. I would be a little more careful articulating the situation than you have been here though.
The respect may get you out of a ticket, and making the cop take a special interest in your case is never a good idea. Having a ticket during the background check wouldn't have shown up, but you may have this show up.
Not to argue with what others have posted, but sometimes you can get a ticket and it be a misdemeanor without the processing, arrest, and so forth. Some states just consider traffic tickets to be "misdemeanors" instead of moving violations. This came up for me last year, as a moving violation that wasn't anything near 80 in a 40, came up as a misdemeanor on my background check. A respectful and apologetic email to the admissions committee was all that was needed in my case. Granted, it was a past case and my trespass was not realizing it to be a misdemeanor and failing to list it on amcas, whereas your situation is explaining getting it now. The irony is that had you just been respectful and gotten a ticket, it wouldn't have been worth mentioning.
I would write an email to your admissions people and advise them of what's going on and see if you need to write a more formal letter officially letting them know of the situation. I would be a little more careful articulating the situation than you have been here though.
