Are colleges allowed to request a copy of your birth certificate in order to apply?

One of the colleges I am applying to needs "proof of citizenship" (birth certificate, passport, etc).

Are they allowed to ask for this confidential document if you are just applying? ( I have not been accepted yet)

A valid source would be appreciated.Are colleges allowed to request a copy of your birth certificate in order to apply?
Yes. Most also want your social security number before they have accepted you. Rest assured that I've never heard of a school misusing this information. They just need evidence of who you are, so they don't accept you (and reject others), only to find out that you aren't who you say you are or are covering up a previous college record which isn't good.Are colleges allowed to request a copy of your birth certificate in order to apply?
Since when is a birth certificate a "confidential document"? Birth certificates are public records. So, yes, of course they are allowed to request something like that for some kind of proof. Why wouldn't they be allowed? Anyway, they aren't insisting on a birth certificate necessarily. They just want something like that. It's a little silly for you to think that they couldn't ask for something.



Now, if you're offended by them asking, you have every right to go to a different school. I'm not sure I'd want to send in my birth certificate either, but that doesn't mean they don't have a right to require something like that.