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LETTER TO ALL ADMITTED STUDENTS
Updated
Spring 2005
TO ALL UHLC ADMITTED
STUDENTS:
All applicants to the UH
Law Center were required to divulge any adverse legal matters other than minor
traffic violations in response to a series of “Character and Fitness”
questions as part of their application for admission. To their credit, many
applicants did disclose all applicable incidents with which they were involved
and were admitted anyway. Others of you, however, may have failed to make the
requisite disclosures. This letter explains the obligation of students in that
situation in greater detail.
The attached sheet
explains your disclosure obligations under application questions, 6, 7.a, 7.b,
and 8. The UH Law Center expects you to have answered those questions in accordance
with the mandates of those questions and the attached application instructions,
and if necessary, to amend the answers that you provided if you did not initially
provide accurate and complete answers. REMEMBER: YOU ARE UNDER A CONTINUING
DUTY TO SUPPLEMENT YOUR ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 6, 7.a, 7.b, AND 8 SO AS TO REFLECT
ALL COVERED INCIDENTS OMITTED FROM YOUR APPLICATION OR OCCURRING AFTER YOU SUBMITTED
IT, INCLUDING THOSE OCCURRING AFTER MATRICULATION TO THE UH LAW CENTER.
The UH Law Center considers
an untruthful or incomplete answer to any of the character and fitness questions,
if done knowingly or in apparent disregard of whether your conclusion that disclosure
was not required was reasonable, as an adverse reflection on your current character
and fitness. The longer you wait to correct the situation, the more seriously
that lapse will be taken. Therefore, this letter puts you on notice once again
that you must disclose any such adverse information if it involved an incident
occurring before matriculation to the UH Law Center. Anyone who thinks they
might have a problem in this regard should contact me immediately at stennessee@central.uh.edu
or (713)743-2079.
The obligations
discussed in this letter should be attended to immediately. Delay works against
you; therefore, you should take appropriate action now.
Sincerely,
Sondra R. Tennessee
Assistant Dean for Admissions & Financial Aid
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