<p>My friend had a cheat sheet for his Math midterm last year and got caught. Now how will this affect him when applying to college. He's done a lot of dumb things but this must have been the dumbest</p>
<p>yes i do think it affects his admissions... it's a violation of honor code. one of the guys in my class cheated on the mock AP final off me! it also makes it hard to get teacher recs since teachers have a blacklist of the cheaters.</p>
<p>Will it offically show up on his transcript? Was he suspended?</p>
<p>If either of these is true "your friend" is pretty much screwed. As a friend at Yale told me, college really only care about three crimes, which in order of increasing severity are:</p>
<p>Rape
Murder
Plagarism and cheating</p>
<p>The only possible partial way out is to show real repentance and growth - though that's unconvicing if the deed was done just a few months ago. Nonetheless, if he owns up, is sincere and talks to the guidance couselor about it, they might let it pass.</p>
<p>I never got caught cheating.
I think I'm born with natural talent in art of cheating.
I can be as "cheatful" as I can, yet I never fail to be subtle.</p>
<p>The cheating will hurt him because in virtually all cases, colleges ask the guidance counselors to fill out a report as part of the application, and one of the questions asks about cheating.</p>
<p>His cheating may not hurt him when it comes to places like most in-state public universities where his stats are at least at the level of the average applicant, but it will hurt him at many private universities. The more competitive the colleges are, the more it will hurt him. It also s likely tol hurt him at colleges that have honor codes including state universities like U of Virginia, which takes a lot of pride in its honor code.</p>
<p>It will have another indirect effect on his applications -- teachers might be reluctant to give him good recs, knowing that he cheated. If this is a matter of public record at your school, he might have difficulty getting a good rec.</p>
<p>Was he jr when he got caught?</p>
<p>I would bet if a freshman got caught and it was the one and only time, and the student REALLLLYYYY worked hard to redeem their reputation, etc, and was contrite, etc, it would be less difficult</p>
<p>but a Jr. should know better, and there is less time to get back a reputation</p>
<p>if this was the only blemish, there would be some good schools that would take him, but if there are other mistakes in judgement, etc., well they can all pile up</p>
<p>Most applications ask you to explain any disciplinary actions against you in addition to asking your counselor about them. The explanation is your friend's chance to try to redeem himself, though, like other said, if the cheating affects how teachers write their recommendations, it may be a problem</p>
<p>Even if you redeem yourself in the written portion....you still cheated!</p>
<p>Colleges don't care about the circumstances, at least I wouldn't if I was a college adcom.</p>
<p>What's going to stop you know?</p>
<p>It shouldn't matter if the cheater was caught by the teacher and the diciplinary process went no further. (That's what some teachers do)
However, if it went up to the office, then that becomes a big problem.</p>
<p>and the worst part of the whole thing is he got a 0 on the midterm so and midterms are 10% of our overall grade for the year</p>
<p>I think that the worst part is that he cheated, not that he might get a bad grade....</p>