<p>Back in March (Mar11, to be exact... the day before the SATs), I got my first traffic ticket. In the AFROTC application, they have this:</p>
<p>Have you ever been arrested, detained, summoned into court, indicted or convicted of any violation of civil or military law (including juvenile offenses, moving traffic violations, and expunged or sealed records such as: *Theft, *Minor In Possession of Alcohol, *Curfew Violations, *Vandalism, *Shoplifting, *Destruction of Property, *Trespassing, *Reckless or Careless Driving, *Car Accident, *Drag Racing, Speeding Ticket, Parking Ticket, Driving without License/Insurance, Following Too Closely)?</p>
<p>I'm guess my ticket makes me part of the "yes" category. Now I have to mail/fax them a personal statment along with the Final Court Report/Disposition. How does this affect me chance-wise?</p>
<p>I don't know how it will impact your application. I do know, however, a college student who almost didn't get an internship because of a similar simple driving violation. Apparently the company's insurance and personnel policies had some rules against hiring people with those kind of difficulties. It took special intervention to get the student hired, who otherwise had no legal record.</p>
<p>Since the miitary right now seems to be having a hard time recruiting people, however, I doubt that your driving ticket will hurt your application.</p>
<p>I started an afrotc application but decided not to finish it. I really doubt there is a yes catagory and a no category. Burglary and not having your wheels turned when parked on a hill are two completly different things, which is why they even bother to ask you to for information about the circumstance. You will be fine, if it was just speeding 10 over or whatever.</p>
<p>Northstarmom - I hope it doesn't hurt me! This is for a scholarship, so argh. I don't know.</p>
<p>Taffy - I "ran a red light," meaning I didn't fully stop before the limit line before making a red turn.</p>
<p>Gumba - Thanks for the link! Thankfully, I've never been suspended... lol</p>
<p>I found my court statement... but it doesn't look like a final court report. I guess I'll check "yes" and call their offices Monday for more information.</p>
<p>"Since the miitary right now seems to be having a hard time recruiting people, however, I doubt that your driving ticket will hurt your application."</p>
<p>you can ignore that... the air force is not short people and the AFROTC scholarship is always very competitive. Right now the Air Force is going through "force-shaping" and letting go lots of people for small reasons.</p>
<p>Yes. I arrived to school late, told my teacher the reason for my tardiness, and she later used it as an example of something to the class... and news spreads fast at my school...</p>
<p>Hahah it's a smallish class of ~150something. I already submitted the online portion... now all I can do is.. umm... hope? Well, that and write really good essays.</p>
<p>But what if they do background checks to make sure your record is clean? In any case, it's too late... I've already submitted the online portion of the application. </p>
<p>Will it matter to them that I got a ticket? I mean, they won't hold being a bad driver (rolling stops = bad driver?) against me, will they? I'm afraid they'll get so many apps that they won't even read the explanation... just yes = reject.</p>
<p>its very possible that they will background check you if you get awarded an afrotc scholarship (worth up to 120 grand).</p>
<p>also, if you get the scholarship and accept it, after taking their money you will have a commitment to serve in the air force. to commission in the air force, they WILL do an extensive background check, and you don't want what they see to disagree with what you have told them. They are booting people from AFROTC for inconsistancies in paperwork. If they boot you and make it so you can't complete your half of the deal, they will not complete their half of the deal, and will be asking for all money they have invested in you, back.</p>