Damaging information and the college application

When experienced high school counselors and college admissions deans obtain information about a nonacademic personality problem, or sexual or legal misbehavior of a senior student applying to college, how do they use the information? A 20-item situational-case questionnaire was devised to study attitudes of counselors and deans on this issue. The results obtained from a nationwide sample of colleges and universities and an Ohio sample of counselors raise major questions regarding the rationale, ethics, and legal basis of the behavior of counselors and admissions deans