<p>As a senior myself, I eagerly anticipate my admission results. & as people are finding out what schools they are getting into, I'm getting dissapointed. My school is nationally ranked for its merit, yet all the "smart" people with the great GPA's are getting into schools such as Cornell & Georgetown. I awknowledge the people that deserve it, but most of the people that get in are the biggest cheaters I know.</p>
<p>By cheating I mean... getting the tests and answer keys from people who took the course last year, never doing their own homework or work, always copying someone elses, cheating on tests, LITERALLY STEALING ANSWER KEYS from the TEACHERS DESKS - I'm seriously flabbergasted by how much the cheaters benefit and get into these great schools.</p>
<p>they get whats coming to them.... or they will eventually :) 17 kids from my Pre-Calc IB class got caught cheating on our final.. needless to say, zeroes didn't help their marks which they had earned in the first place by cheating
Stick it out.. those people don't go anywhere in life!</p>
<p>I have a sneaking suspicion that they spent most of their time learning how to cheat, not how to study. Which means they probably won't do too well in college... which probably means they'll flunk out.</p>
<p>it's true, i think everyone has a vice, and for some that vice might be cheating. I hope you realize that cheating is a LOT worse in college where less attention is paid during tests.</p>
<p>There is a person ranked 1 spot ahead of me who takes the easy classes and cheats. I bought in a camera in on test day and took a picture of him in the act.</p>
<p>I just e-mailed the teacher the photo and she ran over and ripped up his test. :)</p>
<p>I know I am such a loser. Whatever. I am ranked higher now.</p>
<p>There is a group of "smart" students at my school who all cheat and are thus ranked higher than me. I would be in the top 10% now if they didn't cheat. I have seriously considered telling someone, but I am afraid someone else would find out.</p>
<p>Curious, so you are saying some people have never once copied another person's homework, slighly glanced at someone else's test, "heard" answers from a previous class and used them, or got certain help from previous students. I highly doubt it. The degree of cheating could be small, but it is still cheating. It is innate for human beings to try to gain advantages somehow. </p>
<p>@chris2k5, that is some shady ****. I really dislike people like you.</p>
<p>Number2's thread was probably the most entertaining thing I've ever read on this website haha</p>
<p>The majority of high school kids cheat and usually, the higher up the ranks you get, the more prevalent it becomes as those kids have more to gain by cheating... or more to lose by doing badly in a class. </p>
<p>If you count little things like asking your friends for help on homework or to copy some insignificant assignment, or to glance over on another persons paper just to "check" your answers, or to use online sources for a book you're supposed to have read (even if you really did read it), etc, then almost every high school student ever has participated in some form of cheating. I know what you're talking about is a lot worse (stealing answer keys and such) but it's still a valid point. </p>
<p>As for the really bad cheaters who only get by from taking answers and hardcore cheating, I'm sure it'll catch up to them eventually since I'm sure you can't cheat yourself through college without knowing/learning anything.</p>
<p>And yeah, well, you can't really do anything about it now, some people are like that. Leave it to society and etc, see if they'll successfully cheat their way through college, grad school, job, etc. I'm doubting that.</p>
<p>Basically, try not to worry about what other people do and how they did this and that, focus on your stuff.</p>
<p>My husband was a grad student at Yale and a TA in large undergrad biology class. He was proctoring a test. Time was called and one girl walked up front with her test and while my H was in the back of the large hall, he watched her copy the naswers from someone else's test, stick her test in the middle of the pile and run out before he could get down to where she was. HUGE class, no way he knew who she was and she knew it. People will cheat BLATANTLY and they think they deserve to I am sure. She probably rationalized that this was just a required class, she wasn't going into bio, it didn't matter, or else she WAS in premed or something and HAD to do well in the test to move on, realized she was not going to get the grade she wanted and instead of living with the consequences, "fixed" it. It is rampant, unfortunately</p>
<p>Yo dude let me inform you of something. I have a graduating class of about 200. Id say ATLEASE 80% of them cheat. that (without question) includes the top 10% of my class. Being in the top 10% means something. With our classes, (generally speaking) tests/quizzes are worth 50% or more. While they do cheat, they still know stuff nonetheless. I am included in this ill admitt to it. But you do what you have to do to get ahead. That's how it is (supposidly) in "The Real World" and thats how you get into "Georgetown or Cornell". Besides theres other factors that allow them to get into those schools (I.E Essays, Recs, etc). <<< all things that you cant cheat with.</p>
<p>I think it's so sad when I see kids cheating in my crappy public school. It's pathetic. The material is easy and it probably takes longer to make a cheat sheet than to actually study.</p>