How can we untangle good intentions from invasive tendencies when it comes to college admissions?我們如何能夠解開的良好意願，從侵入性的傾向，當談到大學招生？ This is a question that can be asked on many fronts, but has added relevance this year with the addition of a question on the common application about disciplinary and criminal records.這是一個問題，可以問在許多戰線上，但增加了相關性，今年與另外一個問題上的共同應用的紀律處分和刑事紀錄。

The Boston Globe波士頓環球報 ran a piece two weeks ago about this tricky issue.然一塊兩個星期前，對這個棘手的問題。

“I want to help the colleges, but I want to make sure we help our students in any way we can . “我要幫助高校，但我要確保我們幫助我們的學生以任何方式，我們可以。 . 。 . 。 Our first allegiance is to the students,” said Jim Montague, director of guidance counseling at Boston Latin School, which leaves disciplinary questions blank on the application but will answer them if college officials inquire directly.我們的第一效忠的是向學生說： “吉姆蒙塔古，總的指導輔導在波士頓拉丁學校，葉片紀律問題的空白上的應用，但將回答這些問題，如果高校官員直接詢問。 […] [ … … ]

Colleges primarily want openness, said Kevin Kelly, director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which like BU pushes students, but not high schools, to answer the questions if they are left unanswered.學院主要是要公開，凱文說，凱利，主任本科生招生在馬薩諸塞大學阿姆赫斯特在，想步推動學生，但不高的學校，回答問題，如果他們離開解答。 “I wish everybody would share everything,” Kelly said. “我想每個人都將分享一切， ”凱利說。

I’m not sure what it means that colleges “want openness.” Is this meant to imply that it’s some kind of trust game, and suggest that in addition to hopes and dreams we students load up our college applications with dirty secrets so that the admissions offices would take this to be an investment in our trust with the school, like some weird Skull and Bones initiation rite?我不知道是什麼意思說，高校“要開放” ，這意味著在暗示，它的一些種信任遊戲，並建議說，除了希望和夢想，我們的學生負載了我們學院的申請與骯髒的秘密，使該招生辦公室將採取這是一個投資於我們的信任與學校一樣，一些怪異的骷髏會啟動儀式呢？ Still, UMass at least is open to different methodologies from high schools.還有， umass至少是開放給不同的方法，從高中。

Pomona College, a highly selective private college outside of Los Angeles, takes one of the toughest stances: It stops considering a student if a high school leaves questions blank about behavior and then refuses to provide the information when Pomona asks directly.波莫納大學學院，高度選擇性的私立學院以外的洛杉磯，需要一個強硬的立場：它停止考慮學生如果高中葉片問題空白約行為，然後拒絕提供有關資料時，波莫納大學問，直接。

College officials said they get the most cooperation from private schools, particularly boarding schools that face the same concerns as colleges about students’ ability to live among their peers.學院的官員說，他們獲得最大的合作從私立學校，尤其是寄宿學校所面臨的同樣的關注，作為高校學生的能力，生活在他們的朋輩。 Officials at Milton Academy and Concord Academy said they have long advised students that disciplinary actions become part of their records and college applications.官員米爾頓學院和康科德學院表示，他們早已告知學生紀律處分的一部分，它們的記錄和學院的申請。

Students can even enhance their application if they can show in writing how they grew after getting into trouble, said Peter Jennings, Concord’s director of college counseling.學生甚至可以提高他們的申請，如果他們可以顯示在寫作如何，他們長大後陷入麻煩，說，彼得詹寧斯，和諧的主任學院輔導。 “If anything, it gives the colleges a sense of who the kids are, and how they react to a situation,” Jennings said. “如果有什麼，它賦予高校的意識是誰的孩子，以及它們如何反應的情況下， ”詹寧斯說。 Some counselors from high schools that do provide disciplinary information said they also see the exercise as a way to teach students that they face consequences for bad behavior.一些輔導員，從高中，不提供紀律處分信息說，他們也看到，行使的一種方式教導學生，他們面對的後果，不良行為。

Now, I don’t remember what Phillips Exeter’s policy was when it came to reporting this kind of thing.現在，我不記得是什麼菲利普斯埃克塞特的政策是，當它來到的報告，這種事。 Hopefully they, like Boston Latin, looked out for the relationship with the students first.希望它們，就像波士頓的拉丁語，研究出來的關係，與學生第一。 That’s what I would imagine, with people like Betsy Dolan in charge (the head of College Counseling at PEA–super awesome!).這就是我想像，與人一樣，貝齊杜蘭的負責人（主管諮商學院在豌豆-超級可怕！ ） 。 What I do know is that it’sa troubling trend when colleges feel so entitled to these sorts of records that they, like Pomona, will completely disregard a candidacy if people don’t cough up the goods.我所知道的是，這是令人不安的趨勢時，高校覺得這麼題為這些各種各樣的紀錄，他們一樣，波莫納大學，將完全無視一候選人如果人們不咳嗽起來的貨物。

I personally never got into any kind of trouble that went on any records or could have been problematic if anyone had told colleges about it.我個人從來沒有陷入任何形式的麻煩，到了對任何紀錄或可能已經有問題，如果有人曾對高校約。 Some of you might know that I even had a blog while I was applying to college ; ) !你們當中有些人可能知道，我什至有一個博客，而我是申請大學; ） ！ But I do know people, some of them good friends, who ran into serious issues because of minor transgressions.但我知道人，他們中的一些好朋友，誰遇到了嚴重的問題，因為輕微的越軌。 Once someone was accused of something (essentially) and a trigger-happy teacher called up her first-choice early decision school, at which she would have almost certainly had a great chance of getting in for reasons not worth elaborating here–and she was summarily rejected.一旦有人被指控的東西， （主要）和一個觸發-快樂的老師打電話給她的第一選擇，儘早作出決定，學校，她便幾乎可以肯定有一個很大的機會獲得在為理由，不值得在這裡制定和她是循簡易程序拒絕。 That kind of careless disregard for student privacy can have serious implications for the future.這種不小心無視學生的隱私權可以有嚴重影響，為未來作好準備。

All of this raises good questions about the intersection between this kind of information seeking and the internet, social networks, blogs, etc–but that’sa post for another week (some interesting studies came out recently which I’d like to talk about).所有這一切都引起了良好的問題交叉口之間的這種信息尋求和互聯網，社會網絡，博客等-但that'sa後一個星期（一些有趣的研究出來最近我想談談） 。

I know a lot of this could be colleges strongly reacting to want to know about things which might lead to behavior like that at Virginia Tech this past year and just are looking to cover their bases… but that should not be allowed to come at the expense of a little trust from their side of the equation, either, and a little allowance for experimentation and youthful behavior.我知道了很多這可能是高校的強烈反應，想知道的東西，可能會導致行為一樣，在弗吉尼亞理工大學在過去的一年和公正的期待，以支付他們的基地… …但不應該獲准來犧牲了一個小的信任，他們一邊的方程，無論是和小免稅額，實驗和青春的行為。 Whether someone broke curfew to go play hide and seek in the woods or was arrested by police for trying to conduct a creative senior prank, I worry that the noose-like purview of college admissions may be closing too tight around adolescence, encroaching with renewed vigor.是否有人打破了實行宵禁，去玩捉迷藏，並尋求在樹林中或被警方拘捕試圖進行一項創造性的高級惡作劇，我擔心這絞索樣的職權範圍，大學招生可能會閉幕太緊左右青春期，侵犯重新活力。