Why does the University of Vermont ask about speeding tickets on their secondary?

[MTRN406]

The University of Vermont asks you to specifically list speeding tickets you've gotten in the last 5 years on your secondary application. Why? Is it because some states consider speeding tickets to be misdemeanors so they just want them in case you get accepted and they do a background check and they come up there will not be any surprises?

Or are they looking for a pattern of disregard for the law, like getting many tickets indicates someone who is disrespectful of regulations and won't mind ignoring the rules in other situations. Or someone with a ticket for going 120 in a 65 might indicate risk taking behavior and a willingness to disregard the safety of others.

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[ciestar]

Likely both.

 

[PreMedMissteps]

Perhaps they're trying to determine how reckless an applicant is? Someone with maybe 1 or 2 tix within 5 years won't raise too many eyebrows, but if someone had a few, it would.

Does it ask anything where you must reveal how much over the speed limit you were going? If so, then it would seem that they are trying to determine how careless an applicant is.

 

[ciestar]

Perhaps they're trying to determine how reckless an applicant is? Someone with maybe 1 or 2 tix within 5 years won't raise too many eyebrows, but if someone had a few, it would.

Does it ask anything where you must reveal how much over the speed limit you were going? If so, then it would seem that they are trying to determine how careless an applicant is.

In states that report them as misdemeanors, you would see that on a background check.

 

[Planes2Doc]

Because...

And then this...

 

[DBC03]

It seems ridiculous on the face of it, but we sold a car to someone who later contacted us about having some toll violation and asking if we could take care of it for her (um, no). I looked up her driving record and WOW - we're talking multiple tickets per year for all sorts of stuff, like not wearing a seatbelt, not renewing insurance, speeding, not stopping at stop signs, etc. This dated back for over 10 years. Honestly, I think it was just indicative of someone being irresponsible. So maybe they're looking for something like that? I've been driving for over 20 years and have only gotten one ticket that entire time. That certainly doesn't mean I'm the greatest driver on the planet - far from it. I'd probably put myself in the bottom half of drivers on any given rush hour morning. But maybe it indicates I'm not completely irresponsible? Or that I'm possibly a better driver than I imagine? Or I obey the law more often than not? I'm not sure, but I think they're probably looking for patterns of irresponsibility or making sure your misdemeanors are just speeding tickets.