<p>A friend I know personally who graduated class of 2007 (from high school) was accepted to Dartmouth, Northwestern, USC, to name a few, with two or three drug felons on his name. He had graduated from the most prestigious private high school in my town. The school is notorious for drugs and corruption. He is an intelligent guy, A's and B's, SAT 2170, caucasian male. But His tutor wrote all his essays. He basically had his life handed to him on a silver platter. (Don't worry about him getting a job; he's inheriting his father's company.)</p>
<p>However, I don't understand how he had been accepted into all these different schools with drug felons while other caucasian males with equivalent stats to his were rejected from some of the schools he had been accepted to. Do colleges look at drug scandals at all?</p>
<p>Admissions can be random at times...</p>
<p>Perhaps his family donated money or something</p>
<p>That's promising. There's an alcohol incident on my record.</p>
<p>Unfortunately I have the arduous task of explaining myself in my own essays...</p>
<p>And I happen to be female. :-/</p>
<p>@treesnogger: friend currently attends USC. been arrested for marijuana use a few times and had been to court a few times. He told me that USC didn't look at the legal stuff at all?</p>
<p>Unfortunately the Common App asks if you've ever been suspended, though. My situation is nothing so grave as a felony or an arrest--it's quite stupid really, I decided to come forward and incriminate myself for a sip at a debate tournament because I was a goody-two-shoes sophomore.</p>
<p>But I stole the opportunity to submit another essay explaining how the experience permitted me to grow as a person, and I think I had a lot more to say than the me without it might have. Maybe that was your friend's fortune as well?</p>
<p>I have a friend at USC with a similar record. But I couldn't really expect any different from a place like that. ;)</p>