Why don’t you call the school and ask if that question comes up on an app?
I sincerely doubt you’ll ever have to make that call. Chill.
OTOH, you need to have some other options for schools, as those are a difficult group to get into and you are not a traditional student at this juncture.
What do you mean have other options? Like apply to other schools besides MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Berkeley? And what do you mean by I’m not a traditional student?
Based on the flow of conversation in this thread, I think that the OP is simply looking for an excuse. If the OP truly were concerned about grad schol, he wouldn’t be so argumentative. He’s 20 years old, still in a 2-year college program, and hasn’t yet been admitted to a 4-year college.
“Do grad applications even ask if you have a criminal record”
As @Massmomm has said, you do not have a criminal record. Being arrested does not give you a criminal record. Being convicted gives a person a criminal record. You were not convicted.
You can worry about GPA, GRE scores, letters of references, where to apply, what you want to study, finances, global warming, or the risk of alien abductions. You don’t need to worry about this issue.
No conviction, no explanation. Please expunge this worry from your mind.
As I already wrote, I was accepted to every school to which I applied, including Harvard. I explained my arrest because on the applications, I was asked if I had ever been convicted of a misdemeanor. I had, therefore I had to explain. Due to the nature of my “crime,” that arrest did not affect my applications in any negative way, not in the slightest.
For you - if it was expunged then it won’t be on your record…so there is nothing at all to explain. Stop worrying and move on.
I think you’re right, but I don’t think OP is 20, since from his previous threads he started college in like Fall 2013.
You are right – I scanned too quickly and misread. He wrote that the arrest took place when he was 20. And unlike you, I didn’t bother to check other threads.