"Does a pot bust trump a 4.0 GPA?" LA Times

<p>I talked to my guidance counselor about this one day because another counselor brought it up while I was visiting. Your guidance counselor should not and cannot tell the college about your smoking pot or drinking alcohol unless you tell them. It’s a privacy clause so for your guidance counselor to include that you cheated on a test, for example, isn’t right unless you told him or her. It’s just like how lawyers cannot talk about clients to even family members and mention names.
I think that my school doesn’t specify, but sends out a report or something or other. I’m not really sure.
So, lets say I get busted for smoking pot as the title says, and my guidance counselor finds out by reading the paper. He would break the privacy claus if he told the college that in my report without me telling him of the incident.</p>