<p>i was caught cheating sophmore year and was given a saturday school. i am applying to colleges now and they ask for violations. Does my school tell the college. or is me telling them in the application the only way they know.Does this one offense hurt my chances of getting into college.</p>
<p>Tell them yourself, because if your school does tell them, and you conveniently fail to mention it, you’re not getting in. Admissions won’t crucify you for making a mistake and then learning from it. (Did you?) But they will chuck your app in the trash if you try to hide it.</p>
<p>I’d be sure that before you spill the beans about the cheating incident, you make sure that the school will report it 100% for sure. Otherwise, you’re shooting yourself in the foot.</p>
<p>Report it yourself, regardless of what your school does, because a recommender may mention it. If a recommender discusses it, and tries to spin it positively as a learning experience for you, leaving it off an application that your signature affirms is completely truthful will get you rejected.</p>
<p>If you fess up and discuss how it forced you to debate ethics and what that experience taught you, one would hope it wouldn’t be a negative.</p>
<p>Check with your school’s policy. My school only reports if the punishment results in an out of school detention. </p>
<p>Lets not put our hands in the sand, if he reports cheating to a college it is going to be a negative. Admissions has just gotten too competitive. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t report the incident unless your school says it will.</p>
<p>I would admit it, it’s not like it was junior year where it would be a huge red flag, and honesty always is good, at least for karma.</p>
<p>I dunno. Anyone here recall the episode in The Gatekeepers?
REEE…JECTED !!!</p>
<p>Admissions officers know that many students cheat at least once. There is a fair chance that any student who says he or she has never cheated is lying. What’s rare is for a student to cheat, get caught, learn an important lesson from it, and then admit it without being forced. ADMIT IT.</p>
<p>And if you don’t get admitted because of it, look at it in one of two ways, or both: (1) That college’s standards are a bit unreasonable, and you wouldn’t want to go there anyway. (2) You cheated and are being punished, and it’s only fair. Like Sirensong says, karma.</p>
<p>Keep your conscience clear by doing the right thing. You know what the right thing is.</p>
<p>If your school doesn’t report it, you don’t either. Simple as that.</p>
<p>If the school doens’t report it, the recommender can’t. My daughter got in trouble, not cheating, but it was bad enough. We asked specifically if it would be reported and they said no, it would not turn up anywhere, and no counsler etc would mention it. Ever. If D got in trpible again, all bets were off.</p>
<p>So don’t report it, unless school does. And I doubt they will. But you need to ask. </p>
<p>Being completely honest is not the same as omitting something you are allowed to omit. A school not reporting it is a valid reason for not reporting it yourself. And again, if the school says they will not report it, that means all school staff will not report it. It would be foolish to tell on yourself if the school itself didn’t feel it was a big enough deal to report it. Just ask your counselor. They are used to the questions and will give oyu a straight answer, which I bet will be, no, we won’t report it so you don['t need to list it.</p>
<p>I am a mother and for heavens sake don’t admit it unless school does. You won;t get in trouble if you don’t report it and your school doesn’t report it. </p>
<p>To your school, if they don’[t report it, its over, done with, and didn’t represent who you are. Colleges hate cheating because they expect students to be more mature and the consequences, published papers, etc are more serious. Getting caught and punished one time in HS,while really stupid and wrong don’t report it for goodness sake. That would be just silly, not noble but foolish. If the school reports it, you have no choice, but again, if they don’tthink it was that important or part of a pattern and aren’t going to tell, you don’t need to. And that is coming from a mom who asked that very question of her Ds GC, and dean of students.</p>
<p>Your consious should be just fine if you don’t share this one incident, so long as your school doesn’t. And I bet they won’t. You can’t be punished forever for something you stupidly did two years ago. And unless your school is odd and doesn’t do the norm, they won’t tell.</p>
<p>if you feel guilty about it,do some volunteering to help someone, but don’t hurt yourself unless you have to.</p>
<p>As your guidance counselor if they report the detention, if they don’t then you don’t. </p>
<p>If they do, you might want to have your guidance counselor include it; not you yourself.</p>