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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges can deny people for just about any reason: probably not straight-up their race but that's about it. Some schools can discriminate based on sex or religion. Of course they can take a criminal consideration into account. You think someone's going to be successful in saying "yeah I know I murdered a couple of people but my SATs are above average"?[/quote]Well there are laws preventing the use of convictions to deny someone employment, so why not college?[/quote]
Not that I'm aware of. There are laws requiring the criminal background check to be deferred until after the interview and the like, but there's no law that a day care has to hire a child molester or a pharmacy has to hire a drug dealer or that a bank has to hire a check kiter. [/quote]Because the EEOC guidance says to take into account the conviction and the job. Your examples are relevant to the job (and banking has specific regulations). But someone who was convicted of writing bad checks 6 years ago and you now don’t want to hire them for a software developer role? That is what the regulations are looking out for. It’s also why there are statute of limitations regarding asking candidates about convictions and pulling that information in a background check.  [/quote]

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