<p>Whatever you did may have to be revealed later in future applications, e.g., if you apply to law school you usually have to tell them in the application of all past violations even as a juvenile. However, your college application file is protected by law from being revealed to others (except those authorized university personnel in control of the file) without your permission except for identifying info (name, address, phone and that you are a student there) and except for generic info that does not reveal your identity that is used for studies or college reports (e.g., your grades and test scores will be used in any compilation without your identity along with all others when the school compiles and reports its middle 50% ranges) . Same applies to your high school record. Newspaper or other journalistic types will not be allowed access; however, they have other ways of learning things if they desire, e.g., is what you did part of any court record that can be reviewed by the public? was it reported in any news publication? Do others know who journalists could ask? School papers will likely not be interested in doing any of that.</p>