Can I leave the year I graduated from HS off of an application I'm filling out?

How often do people look that closely anyway? I bet if you skipped it no one would even notice.

The college and high school year are not required. There are several companies that WON’T hire you because of age. If you have a BS it will not be necessary to put down your high school or junior college. I know because of having my resume bounced off of several recruiters and HR managers for information only, not to be hired by them.

An application, if it asks for year, maybe age discriminatory. I have just put down the school not the year.

Is graduating from college in 1993 an old flag? Leave that off too? (I think it should be illegal to even ask that.)

Yes, of course you can.

I just don’t want anything to flag me as “old.” Not sure if graduating in 1993 would do that.

Employes are not allowed by law to ask any questions in an interview regarding age so you do not have to indicate anything about age on an application

Of course you’re “old”. I’m older. So what? Fly that freak flag (as if your age is the freakiest thing about you).

On my own résumé I not only put down those dates very plainly, but I also add my college / university attendance and write very clearly next to that: “Did not graduate; no degree attained,” so that there can be no possible claim of résumé padding or false claims. I’ve been told more than once by interviewers that when they see that (at the top of the document) they’re more inclined to read further with a clear expectation of “the truth, and nothing but the truth”. (That’s “when I get to the interview stage, of course. There have been a lot of potential interviews that I probably missed out on.)

Those who rely on “the degree” and “the age” more than “the actual qualifications and requirements for performance of the job”, well, I’m just as unwilling to work for them as they are to hire me in the first place, so we weed each other out that way.