Your arrest for DUI extends beyond the jail cell or courtroom.
It can affect your plans to go to college, continue in college or obtain financial aid.
DUI can also make it difficult to find a job in the career field in which you are interested.
Being arrested for DUI means future employers can't hire you because their insurance companies see you as a liability to the company, especially if you drink and drive, then cause injury to others.
You may be required to report your DUI arrest to a professional licensing bureau.
These boards license nurses, lawyers and plumbers, among other professions.
Failing to report your arrest to the licensing agency of your state puts you at risk of losing your license, meaning you cannot work.
When you apply to enroll in the college or university of your choice, one of the questions on the admission questionnaire treats criminal convictions or arrests, including DUI.
Leaving your arrest off of your admission application is lying by omission.
The university can disenroll you when it finds out your falsified your application.
The university may decide to admit you, provided you have one DUI arrest or conviction and you have completed a drug and alcohol program.
Should you become intoxicated and drive after you have been admitted, your university may require that you notify the admissions office of your arrest within a certain time frame.
Failure to report your arrest to university authorities can lead to suspension from classes.
Repeated arrests for driving under the influence may ultimately lead to your temporary or permanent suspension from university classes.
This affects your attendance and your grades.
Your plans to obtain financial aid, whether federal grants or loans, can be affected by a DUI arrest.
Your ability to compete for a scholarship can be affected by a DUI arrest, leading the award committee to deny you funding.
This does not mean you are completely out of options.
Some scholarships are awarded to individuals who have been arrested for, or convicted of DUI.
Go through the scholarship program's requirements before you go to court.
You need to know how a DUI plea might affect your ability to obtain student loans, grants or scholarships.
Your DUI arrest, as either a nursing or law student, may make it impossible for you to be licensed after graduation.
When the college you plan to attend finds out that you cannot be licensed, they will not want to offer you a slot in their program.
Call the state licensing agency and ask them how a DUI arrest or conviction may affect your application to a special educational program.
Accepting probation for a specific time period may lessen the effects of a conviction.
Depending where you live, accepting and completing probation may make you eligible for an expungement of your DUI conviction.
A non-disclosure prevents the general public, including college administrators and employers, from getting access to your DUI conviction records.