Academic Honor Violation and its effect upon my Chances?

Applying to College
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<p>Hi! I am a junior attending high school with a current 4.5 cumulative GPA. I had just received an honor code violation for, truthfully, sending a friend of mine my hypotheses and one of my lab analysis questions in order to help him. He asked me for them and I felt as though rejecting him would be unethical on my part. Little did I know that he would copy and paste my answers and claimed it to be his own. Thus, my AP Biology teacher had caught and issued to both of us an honor code violation as well as a Saturday school. This, to me, is quite disheartening as I believe that my future is in jeopardy simply because I had placed my trust upon the wrong person to do the right thing. Not only was my own honor insulted and violated, but I am not suffering the same consequences as the guilty party, which is a bit unfair. Fortunately, my teacher explained to me that the first violation serves as a type of warning and does not appear as a red flag upon your academic record. She also understands my situation and sympathizes with me, stating that she must give me the honor code violation for the sake of consistency in handling these matters. As a result, when she does write up the report, she will make it clear that these answers were plagiarized from me against my consent, for I had no intention to just simply give him the answers so that he could just copy them.</p>

<p>So, the question I have is how will colleges react to this? My teacher said that they won't be able to see the "warning" first violation of the honor code unless they actually dug deeper into my records by contacting the school. But will they be able to understand my position in this? I feel as if I'm a victim in this situation. I feel as though my future is ruined all because of someone's ineptitude! The only reason why I got into this situation was because I was trying to help him...doing something nice! I understand that the method in which I helped him was also bad on my part, for I should have helped him solely through words and not by simply sending him my answers as well. It was definitely a mistake on my part as well, and I now am certainly cognizant of the deceptiveness of other students as well as to who I should place my trust upon. </p>

<p>Also, will colleges such as UCs (I'm planning on attending one of these universities) require me to explain this on my application?</p>

<p>Thank you very much for reading this!</p>

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<p>You’ll be fine some of my friends were in similar situations and they were admitted to UCs.</p>

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<p>My friend got suspended for getting caught for trying to hack the school gradebook system to change a friend’s B to an A. He went to and graduated from Stanford University with a major in Computer Science. I think you’re fine.</p>

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You need to look up the definition of the word unethical.<br>

So if your friend had just fudged the data so it looked different and you hadn’t been caught everything would be OK?</p>

<p>You first need to understand that what you did was wrong. If the common app asks if you’ve been found guilty of academic dishonesty (which I think it does) you need to answer truthfully. Then you need to ask your GC what will appear on your transcript. If the event will show up you should probably address it by stating what you learned.</p>

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<p>^—I think you’re being a bit condescending in your approach.</p>

<p>Personally, I think you should be fine. If asked by the Common App about such (which, as Erin’s Dad, if I remember correctly I believe it does) just be honest and write with as much passion and heart as you did in this thread and they will surely understand you.</p>