I get a huge number of questions about what needs to be disclosed on law school applications, and applicants are especially annoyed when schools want to know about traffic tickets. Some schools do ask about this as part of their character and fitness questions on applications. If they do, you must disclose the following information to the best of your abilities:
- date of the traffic ticket and the exact offense
- where it occurred
- how it was resolved
It’s not necessary to say you were late for an exam or to offer any other excuse for why you were driving over the speed limit. If you have a number of tickets to explain in your law school applications, hopefully you can put some distance between the last one and the current date.
Very rarely would someone be rejected from law school simply based on having to disclose two or three speeding tickets, but five or more might show a disregard for the law that could concern law schools.
