<p>After our midterm on Friday, the professor asked to speak privately to my friend and said that he thought she exhibited "suspicious behavior" throughout the exam and asked her to sit in the front during exams from now on. Knowing this girl, she would not cheat, though she does get very anxious during exams because of time. She said the professor was pleasant enough and she hasn't heard from him or the Dean so far. Do you think the professor would report his suspicions to the Dean and how long would it take for the Dean to contact her?</p>
<p>Nah he wouldn’t report it to the Dean. She’s probably under FBI investigation now though, so she should hide her stuff and watch her back from now on.</p>
<p>No biggie, your friend might be looking at just 5 years of federal, I wouldn’t worry about it.</p>
<p>tell your friend to hide her kids, hide her wife, and hide her husband cause the Dean is rapin’ errbody out there.</p>
<p>what I mean to say is, she don’t have to come and confess, they gon’ find her. they gon’ find her. so you can run and tell that home boy.</p>
<p>Lol I appreciate the jokes, but seriously, people, any insight?</p>
<p>I think the whole point of their jokes is a hint that it’s probably not that serious.</p>
<p>She’s just worried that he’s now going to nitpick her exam. The two of us sat together and got the same wrong answer for a free response question. I don’t know that that could be considered proof, since our wording was not the same and our reasoning/explanations may have been different too, but she’s freaking out that he will report her to the Dean.</p>
<p>if she didn’t cheat, she has nothing to be worried about. how can your professor even know the relationship between you and her? there shouldn’t be a guilty conscience…</p>
<p>Even if the professor reports his suspicions to the dean and the dean investigates them, if nothing is substantiated, nothing bad should happen. Much unlike high school (where teachers in my experience would go so far as to take an exam in progress away from a student), the student under UCLA policy is presumed innocent and the burden is on the instructor to provide compelling evidence to the dean. It’s probably not a good idea to do anything more on the student’s end.</p>
<p>That is what I told her too, TWSA50, but she is afraid that the same mistake on our tests, even if the wording isn’t the same, in addition to the fact that we both got certain questions right (which isn’t abnormal at all in my mind), is enough to count as “proof”.</p>
<p>Its almost as if you guys did cheat and you’re worried. If you didnt cheat, you didnt cheat. Isn’t that simple enough? </p>
<p>They know when answers seem like they were cheated off of someone or not. You have nothing to worry about. Similar answers are not “substantial evidence.”</p>
<p>The girl in question is an international student and I think her unfamiliarity with American customs/practices and education system is a major source of her concern.</p>
<p>I<em>Was</em>Here,</p>
<p>Your friend really does not need to worry. Cheating is not completely absent in large universities like the UCs, and you will find that the probability of hearing or seeing someone get kicked out for academic dishonest is rare. I have not heard/seen one in my 4 years of undergrad. Typically the professor takes the situation into their own hands (hence your friend having to sit in front). </p>
<p>If anything, I assume you will first get at least a “warning” from the Dean with some act of discipline. But I can’t prove that since I haven’t read the fine print.</p>