During the process of selection for recruiting, if you’ve gotten a school date, does that mean your background cleared?

No, they'll place you into a class date with only a preliminary background check, meaning you don't already have any restricting offenses listed in their systems. The background check is usually finished prior to going off to recruiter class. A lot of people get a school date that gets canceled right before their school date because of background check or mental health evaluation

So it should be but you never know. My buddy didn't receive his background check until the last week of recruiting school which is crazy since he has a Secret clearance already. Since some nonsense like 7 years before hand came up he ended up graduating the school but they didn't send him out on recruiting detail.

I had an old speeding ticket from years ago that they found. It was paid and everything but they wouldn’t give me a date until I had proved that it was paid off. They actually told me that I didn’t meet the requirements and were going to drop me if I didn’t present it in a timely manner.