Hi SDN,
I'm debating what to do about the misdemeanor section of AMCAS and TMDSAS. In 2008, I received a ticket in TX (where speeding is a class C misdemeanor) for going 100 mph on the freeway... I pursued deferred adjudication and had it dismissed after a defensive driving course. However, according to TMDSAS's website, deferred adjudication does NOT automatically expunge your record in Texas and it is still present in your records.
Additionally, I received another ticket (going a lot slower this time, lol) in Waxahatchie a year later. I hired a lawyer to take care of it and... never heard about it ever again. No summons, no official mail, not even a bill from the lawyer, if you can imagine that. It almost seems like the ticket fell into a black hole. I've never been bothered about it in the nearly half a decade since despite renewing my license multiple times. As far as I can tell, there's no record anywhere of it ever existing besides my paper copy of the ticket.
I called the TX DPS and I have no convictions, outstanding tickets, or warrants on my record... but I'm worried that, based on the information on the TMDSAS site, that 1) the record DPS has isn't my "real" record that Certiphi would see and 2) that Certiphi might be able to dig up that old vanished ticket which, by now, might have turned into a failure to appear.
What should I do? I really don't want to list any misdemeanors as I hear that gets your application flagged... but I don't want to be discovered "lying about my criminal record" either. Does Certiphi have access to the same records LEOs do? Am I just being too paranoid?
I'm debating what to do about the misdemeanor section of AMCAS and TMDSAS. In 2008, I received a ticket in TX (where speeding is a class C misdemeanor) for going 100 mph on the freeway... I pursued deferred adjudication and had it dismissed after a defensive driving course. However, according to TMDSAS's website, deferred adjudication does NOT automatically expunge your record in Texas and it is still present in your records.
Additionally, I received another ticket (going a lot slower this time, lol) in Waxahatchie a year later. I hired a lawyer to take care of it and... never heard about it ever again. No summons, no official mail, not even a bill from the lawyer, if you can imagine that. It almost seems like the ticket fell into a black hole. I've never been bothered about it in the nearly half a decade since despite renewing my license multiple times. As far as I can tell, there's no record anywhere of it ever existing besides my paper copy of the ticket.
I called the TX DPS and I have no convictions, outstanding tickets, or warrants on my record... but I'm worried that, based on the information on the TMDSAS site, that 1) the record DPS has isn't my "real" record that Certiphi would see and 2) that Certiphi might be able to dig up that old vanished ticket which, by now, might have turned into a failure to appear.
What should I do? I really don't want to list any misdemeanors as I hear that gets your application flagged... but I don't want to be discovered "lying about my criminal record" either. Does Certiphi have access to the same records LEOs do? Am I just being too paranoid?
