I was accepted into MHC at one of the CUNYs, which was my goal because I wouldn’t be able to afford my other top choices.
I’m doing extremely poorly in an AP course, and while that IS horrible and puts me in a risky situation, it’s honestly not my biggest concern at the moment. My bigger problem is that I was “caught cheating twice.” Now, I know your initial impression is that I’m a terrible person, but let me try to explain myself.
My high school’s policy is that if you have 2 or more counts of cheating during your high school career, you must notify the college you were accepted into. Both offenses happened with that one AP class this year second semester, so you can see this is not reoccuring behavior for me. The first count I get. I basically did a project with the help of a friend who was taking the same class, and my end result ended up being too similar to hers for my teacher’s liking. The second count was NOT intentional. Not trying to completely put the blame off myself or anything, but for this particular group project, many of my teacher’s students shared information with each other. Obviously knowing I could jeopardize myself, I did a bit of work on the project and told my group members I didn’t feel right about using other people’s work. They peer pressured me and before I knew it, they submitted the project. Of course, I was wrong in not saying no or approaching administration beforehand, but this wasn’t me being lazy or malicious.
Luckily, I’m close to my guidance counselor. We’ll be writing the letter regarding that to be sent in with my final transcript, but this whole situation has made me extremely depressed. She is being realistic, but she did encourage me in the fact that I can explain myself and she can also vouch for me (like what I said in the prior paragraph, although I should take more responsibility in it so I don’t come across as saving my own ass too much).
Is there no hope for me? I’ve never been this depressed in my life. My other grades are good, even better than previous years. I want to emphasize that I’m extremely hard working and virtuous. This year is the first that something like this ever happened. There WAS personal stuff, like extreme anxiety, relative’s death, etc… (But is the personal part worthy of mention? Or does that sound like an excuse)
This is probably too lengthy, but I’ve honestly been going slightly insane lately. Getting my offer rescinded would ruin my life. Yes, it’s my fault, but I don’t want to drag my entire family down from this mistake.
Oh, since I know people find this kind of stuff interesting, I only know of 2 kids from my school’s last year’s graduating class who were rescinded. Both got into lower tier Ivy league schools. One was rescinded for either failing several classes, or failing one class and doing noticeably worse in the others. Basically an extreme, obvious case of senioritis. The other had poor grades as well, but it was probably more because he was arrested for doing something stupid. (This is how my close friends have been comforting me but I don’t find much hope in this lol)
Thank you if you took the time to read this! Please don’t be too cruel haha.