<p>Hi, I made one of the worst mistake in my life recently as I got caught for cheating. I feel deep reget about it. I feel my entire work has wasteful because of that one mistake</p>
<p>But when I looks at the UC application. It seems likes there is no space you need to talk about your disciplinary history. Am I right? Does it mean, my chance won't be significent reduced?</p>
<p>My profile is below:
All A's except the class I got caught because of cheating which probably is a low B.
But should I </p>
<p>SAT: 2120 first try</p>
<p>EC: AIME qualifer (index score 206. aime II 10)
NE Prep school T&F individual event winner.
many volunteers jobs...</p>
<p>Do I still have a chance of getting into UCB?</p>
<p>Just do it anyways. Did the incident go down on your actual record or did the teacher just give you a bad grade?</p>
<p>It goes to my record. If there is blank in the application or the counselor letter that asks about disciplinary history, I will have to write it on it. But I think UC doesn’t ask for recommendation, and when I looked at the application, it looks like there is no place that asks you to fill in the discilinary thing. Am I correct?</p>
<p>please give me some more information. I will really appreciate it</p>
<p>Most likely, you’ll be fine. If you show that you have learned from your mistake, and probably won’t do it again, you won’t suffer. However, obviously, when being compared to an applicant of similar caliber, the university would pick the other person.</p>
<p>Though, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. Seeing that you could score a 10 on the AIME II, I’m sure this won’t affect your shot at Berkeley at all (assuming that you can put those problem solving skills to good use!).</p>
<p>Thank you very much, mitigated! My depression is mitigating a little bit. But do you know if Berkeley will know actually know that mistake when reviewing my profile? If they don’t as there is no place asking about disciplinary history, I will feel a little less depressed, I guess.</p>
<p>There is an area to just put some comments in general…such as explaining why a grade is lower than it could have been/should be. That section is usually used to describe how a family emergency or sickness negatively affected the grade(s), but I can see this being in the same part. Explain it and you better demonstrate that you learned from it or else they will just read that you’re a cheater and automatically reject you. But everything else looks good for you that I think applying will be worthwhile.</p>
<p>Thanks for your answer and suggestion, Sllamas1. Well, I looked the part your mentioned in the application. According to my understanding and as what you indicate, it’s generally the place people uses to explain their grades. So if I don’t write my history, it won’t be deemed as misreporting, right? (if it’s not mandatory to report that, I really prefers not to as it is not lying and won’t hurt my chance)</p>
<p>That’s true…I guess you don’t have to report it…I would want to explain why that grade was lower though…but I can also see the side of not explaining that it was the result of cheating. It won’t hurt to NOT put it, that’s for sure.</p>
<p>Be aware that a small percentage of applicants to Cal are chosen for augmented review, sent a request for you to fill out a supplemental questionnaire and, most significantly, asked to provide one reference. The reference is given a special URL and they will fill out some recommendation form - but you will never see it. I don’t know what is contained on that form. It is possible it asks a question about character or disciplinary problems.</p>
<p>Also be aware that if accepted, you will have to have your official transcript sent to Cal over the summer. If you are depending on them not explicitly asking about the problem, you should research carefully to be sure that it isn’t attached somehow as an expectation or condition - that any issue like that is expected to be disclosed and justified - because if that is part of the admissions expectation then you would clearly take a different strategy and have to raise the issue yourself.</p>
<p>For example, the principle is clear that Cal can and has retroactively rescinded degrees - in one case revoking both masters and PhD from a grad student when they discovered years later that the student engaged in academic dishonesty. </p>
<p>Cheating is taken very seriously here. </p>
<p>Thus it is not out of the question that the school could rescind someone even in their senior year of college if they discovered the misconduct. I am not sure that they would view a defense kindly that basically said “you didn’t explicitly ask and therefore I wasn’t lying”.</p>