<p>My friend got caught cheating on one homework assignment and the teacher put it on his high school record. Though he was not the only one who cheated, he was the only one who got caught and that was his only offense. I am curious to know if cheating on only a homework assignment actually does affect your chances of getting into a college? Do colleges even have time to look that deeply into your record?
He's a great student besides that.</p>
<p>yup... If you're going to cheat, do it well and make sure you don't get caught (otherwise you deal with the consequences)</p>
<p>ya it'll be sent out on his transcript</p>
<p>ouch! I doubt it will affect your chances much, colleges know everyone cheats.</p>
<p>depends on what college. some colleges trust their students enough to allow them to take it unproctored, outside of class.</p>
<p>If you're dumb enough to get caught cheating, I wouldn't recommend doing it =]</p>
<p>Well if you're dumb enough to have to cheat I wouldn't recommend applying to a top college or else you'll get raped by real homework =[</p>
<p>Colleges know everyone cheats?!? That assumes everyone cheats. I don't, and I guess I must be really naive, if I'm the only one who doesn't.</p>
<p>Basically all my friends do but I never have. I just like knowing that I'm beating them in GPA w/o doing it =]</p>
<p>yeah, surprisingly it's try that you get higher grades if you don't cheat. lol</p>
<p>how does anyone get caught for cheating on homework?</p>
<p>Yeah, how do you? Almost everyone I know cheats, on the really stupid busy work. On homework--like, faking an assignment (writing about something that you were supposed to do, and making it up)? Or copying someone else's? Jeez. If my teachers punished kids every time someone cheated or copied, practically everyone would be in trouble.</p>
<p>To the OP: </p>
<p>Any form of offense the school puts on your record is definitely seen and weighted in as part of your admission or rejection by a college. Although it will not kill your application, it will definitely hold your friend back because there will be kids who have similiar stats as him or even better and have immaculate hs records. So who will they take? Person who has a cheating offense or person with a perfect record? Also, with one cheating offense, colleges will question the validity of all the grades that person receives. </p>
<p>Cheating on hwk may not seem like a very serious issue but it is. Colleges have been known to look through kids facebooks and myspaces trying to see what type of people they are; not only that, there is a reason some colleges ask for a picture of you and its not because they wanna see how pretty or good looking you are.</p>
<p>However, not all hope is lost. Colleges (the common app for sure) has a section where you explain an issue that you had i.e. a family death effected your grades for a particular semester or to explain why there is a mark against you. He/she should fully explain the situation and emphasize how it was a childish mistake that the person learned from and as a result matured. Colleges do know we're still basically kids so tell him or her to be honest and thorough in their explanation of what occured and how the person has learned and grown up from it.</p>
<p>People do it so much in my school nobody really cares. Cheating on tests is another matter though. The fact is, homework really is pointless and a joke. The only thing worth actually "doing" is writing papers and other large projects (besides those stupid art projects teachers make you do sometimes) Cheating on homework is no big deal, because the whole idea of homework just comes from teacher's laziness. Why don't they just teach you things in class instead of sending it home with you?</p>
<p>I have to admit, i cheated a bit on math homework, because its just dumb repetition of easy things I already knew how to do from listening in class.</p>
<p>btw, do the teachers actually tell you in person "Since you've cheated, I'll have to record that on your high school transcript" or do they just do it subtly w/o ur knowledge?</p>
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<p>this is probably not true... cheating is, first of all: probably rarer than you think. and second of all, there is no way that colleges attribute cheating to their applicants. cheating is taken very seriously at the collegiate level and i think the assumption is probably made that applicants are honest in their work.</p>
<p>Six people in my math class were all nailed for cheating. Same mistakes on all of their papers. One boy let his friend copy, then that friend let another copy, . . . It is marked on all of their records.</p>
<p>I think plagiarism is an even bigger problem. I hate group projects where groupees submit plagiarized material from the internet.</p>
<p>I don't know how other schools work, but my school has 3 different files on students. Transcript, high school record, permanent record. The transcript has nothing on it except grades, absences, gpa, class rank, test scores.... The high school record has everything that happens in high school, which includes disciplinary history, semester report cards, parking pass information, emergency medical information.... The permanent record seriously has nothing in it, except maybe 3 or 4 sheets of paper with identifying information, state test scores, and the fact that you graduated. The colleges never get the high school record from my school. Apparently when seniors graduate the high school record is just thrown away. The colleges only ever see the transcript and permanent record. Also, at least at my school, the counselors do not know whether or not you have disciplinary history so they do not check that box on the counselor recommendation. And in the cases where they do know about your disciplinary history, they still do not check the box. The reason I know this? I asked my counselor what the transcript looked like one day, and she went into a giant spiel about how everything works at our school. Your friend should ask a principal or guidance counselor. I don't think they can deny him access to his own transcript.</p>
<p>I should note that I'm in middle school.</p>