Troubled teenagers should be wary that their actions and not just their grades in high school have repercussions on their vying for certain colleges.
Recently, those students with high academic averages but low grades in conduct may be rejected from the colleges they’ve applied for. This is because the common application which has been utilized by Stanford and hundreds of other universities has added a section which asks for information from school guidance counselors. The kind of information they want to know about their applicants can vary from getting caught smoking in the school bathroom or possessing a handgun.
These additional questions were formulated to aid these colleges in choosing students who were not just smart, but possessed the proper character as well.
Guidance counselors may be concerned that with these new questions, “typical” teenage slip-ups like sneaking a couple beers into a school dance can actually ruin a teen’s chances at future education.

David Hawkins of the National Association for College Admission Counseling remarked that the new requirements have been causing "a great deal of concern and confusion among counselors." Ordinarily, discipline issues would be kept as an internal matter of the high school.
Many of the high schools in the Bay Area comply and also warn the incoming freshmen to behave if they want to study further. Issues definitely exist between the high school and the colleges because the colleges want to know and the high schools also want to protect their internal disclosure policies. Also, even as other high schools comply and want to respect a healthy relationship of trust between them and the colleges, they also want to maintain a good reputation as their students are accepted into top colleges.
It is a sensitive issue, and schools like the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District, will not even comment to the news regarding if they comply or not.

There are certain colleges which do not ask about high school discipline issues, included here are the University of California and California State University. Susan Wilbur, UC's admission dean, said “Admission should be based entirely on the applicant's academic achievement and individual talent."
Nicole Burrell of The Harker School in San Jose has had experience as both a high school and college counselor. She said "Colleges are building living and learning communities - and they want to admit students who will contribute positively to those communities. But while this is a reasonable expectation, this is more complicated than it seems."