<p>i don't think it will affect him because like 40% of high school kids get accused of reckless driving in VA....not a joke</p>
<p>If your friend was doing 98 on the beltway and it wasn't 3 am, he's too stupid to go to college. Too bad he's not spending a couple of nights in jail.</p>
<p>niiice. Ur cool. if I was Harvard, I'd take you without even looking at your grades.</p>
<p>I can't imagine it would be that bad. I mean, just about noone in Florida can honestly say they haven't driven 100 on I-95 many times. I'm sure it's similar in most places. Oh and I hit 130 in a 45 my third time ever driving a car. I was also driving illegally since I only had a permit and was with my friend who was under 21.</p>
<p>yea but have you guys ever driven on the wrong side of the road with medium traffic? how about without any brakes? missing a wheel?</p>
<p>I can't imagine going over 60mph within 500ft of a signal - no time to safely stop for the lights or jaywalkers.</p>
<p>However, when the road is wide and straight, cars are few in number, and the next exit is 10mi away, I'd go as fast as 3000rpm will allow me. Though, my record is only 105mph in a 70mph zone...</p>
<p>Lol zzzboy.</p>
<p>excelblue: me neither. I did this basically in the middle of no where. There were 18 wheelers doing 75, and I drove by a cop doing 90.</p>
<p>I would read the fine print on the applications as traffic violations may not need to be reported. </p>
<p>I can't imagine it would hurt at all but naturally it would be best not to highlight it in an essay on what activities....</p>
<p>one time i went 160 in a 55, im cool</p>
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<p>My thoughts exactly.</p>
<p>Wow this person is me. I was just introduced to this college confidential thing and I was looking to see if there was anyone who was in a similar situation. Funny that I come up to a thread of someone who went at the same speed as me. I am actually applying ED to Northwestern and had already got accepted to Pittsburgh with a $10,000/year scholarship.</p>
<p>As retarded as what I did was, I did try my best to resolve it. I hired a lawyer, took driver improvement classes, did community service, etc. all voluntarily before my court date. The judge felt that I learned my lesson and there was nothing that he could have me do and so we settled on a deal for a $200 fine and a 6 month ban from driving in VA. Luckily I was under 18 at the time or else I would have had to serve mandatory jail time. </p>
<p>Decisions come out next week so we'll see if they effected me (if you all are still interested considering this thread is a couple months old.</p>
<p>my college counselor said that usually misdemeanors and school suspensions that ARE NOT academic dishonesty-related are not a huge deal to colleges. the thing you must do, however, is (if they ask for an explanation) be very, very apologetic and humble about it. this is coming from someone who was suspended for a day. wrote a pretty great essay about how i've grown from the mistake, so i'm not worried... :)</p>
<p>^^ I seriously doubt that reckless driving by speeding by an under 18 year old is going to have any affect on your college admissions.
Someone near and dear to me got a large Virginia ticket (I think he was 92 in a 55) last year. He had a good lawyer who was very well connected and still spent a night in jail as a sentence. It could have easily been multiple nights, so you were lucky to get off with NO jail. My family member's ticket was in a particularly strict county. It is something that will need to be disclosed on applications to professional schools etc, but a speeding offense, even a big one, without alcohol involved is not something that can't be overcome.</p>
<p>Well thank you for those responses.</p>
<p>I was very lucky in a sense because apparently Virginia did not notify Maryland about anything. I still have a "clean" record with no points in Maryland and thats good because my insurance rates did not go up.</p>
<p>I was visiting a school in Virginia over the summer and got pulled over by an unmarked cruiser while I was doing 101 in a 55 (When he clocked me). My teeth were chattering as he approached the window and I was nervous enough that I forgot my wallet was in my pocket.</p>
<p>He seemed ****ed because he had to fly to catch up, but he settled down quick after he saw me and talked for a few minutes. He called me back to his car to sit with him and I mentioned that the song playing - "Casey Jones" - was my favorite by the Grateful Dead. That broke the ice so he laughed and we chatted while he wrote up the court appearance form.</p>
<p>He told me that I could easily be charged with reckless driving, but not only did he write my speed as 76, he was nice enough to say I was in a 65 which started 200 yards down the road. Of course, I wrecked our friendship by asking to see the radar and copying down a lot of inofmration, but I avoided a criminal record and ended up with a $120 fine, though I do have to appear in court in December.</p>
<p>Hopefull I won't have to deal with Massachusetts ******** like reinstatement fees and classes. It seems odd that so many get pulled over in VA.</p>
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Man you got off so easy. I got pulled over by a state trooper who had no leniency whatsoever.</p>
<p>Virginia driving laws are ridiculous. Reckless driving, which is a class one misdemeanor, is any thing 20mph over the speed limit, or anything over 80. And if you are in the 90's its basically manditory jail time. But what is messed up is that while they completely don't tolerate speeding, their attitude towards drinking and driving is nothing. A DUI is just a slap on the wrist, with no jail time at all.</p>
<p>In many states, driving 20 MPH or more over the limit can be treated as reckless driving depending on the circumstances. It may not be automatic, but is still worth considering.</p>
<p>The strictness of Virginia with respect to speeding is well-known and has been in all the national papers, and was something I had discussed with my dear speeder. He didn't realize that it actually applied to HIM, though. </p>
<p>I have a lawyer friend who had 5 minor speeding tickets which he had to disclose on his application to be admitted to the state bar (of TN). He was called to appear before the committee to explain why he had such a disregard for the law. Just something to consider.....</p>
<p>I went 94 in a drivers ed car...on a 30mph street</p>