I received a disorderly conduct my freshman year in College. I was just wondering if this would stop me from getting into med school. I haven't taken the MCAT yet, but my GPA is around a 3.5 and will be a little higher when I finish my degree.
I received a disorderly conduct my freshman year in College. I was just wondering if this would stop me from getting into med school. I haven't taken the MCAT yet, but my GPA is around a 3.5 and will be a little higher when I finish my degree.
Is there an awesome story to go along with it? I'd think after being bored through the same set of rehearsed answers every day, adcoms would love a good story
I received a disorderly conduct my freshman year in College. I was just wondering if this would stop me from getting into med school. I haven't taken the MCAT yet, but my GPA is around a 3.5 and will be a little higher when I finish my degree.
Are you kidding? Everybody gets a disorderly conduct citation nowadays. You can get a disorderly conduct just for arguing with a cop. Ask Henry Gates.
You'll be more like House MD and he's badazz so I wouldn't worry too much.
It depends.
In CA engaging in prostitution and spying on neighbors as they undress are considered disorderly conduct.
In CA, if someone was engaged in prostitution, why don't they get charged with it? Why do they have to charge them with disorderly conduct (which can run the gamut from a very serious violation to a not minor infraction). Anyways, hope the OP has a "happy ending".
One thing that you may want to verify is that this is in fact a citation, as opposed to a misdemeanor. I had a disorderly conduct misdemeanor charge that later got amended to a lower offense. Of course this meant that I had to answer that I did in deed get charged with a misdemeanor and it was then up to me to show how I had learned from this event and how I had made changes in my behavior.
Thiggin,
I doubt that this will be an issue for you at all.
You have already gotten some excellent advice on this thread.
Most secondary applications ask only about criminal convictions.
The legal definition of a criminal offense is something that constitutes a misdemeanor or a felony. Violations--the category below misdemeanors--are specifically and explicitly excluded from this definition.
Although I cannot say with certainty without knowing the laws where this incident occurred, in a vast majority of states, disorderly conduct is a violation, not a misdemeanor or a felony.
You will need to verify the level of the charges and then read your secondary applications carefully.
Again, most ask about criminal convictions.
With very few exceptions, a "discon" arrest (really the same as a traffic ticket in most states) clearly does not meet the requirements for disclosure, as no criminal charge is present.
The bottom line is to learn from your experience and put it behind you.