<p>There were 3 kids from my class who were suspended for drugs/cheating and were still accepted to UVA</p>
<p>I can say with almost complete certainty that 95% of the top 10% of my class (About 37 kids) have cheated at one point or another. I'm honestly afraid of getting caught and getting screwed like the OP, but I think it's unrealistic to think people can perform that well without some forms of cheating. It depends how you define cheating too. While I would never make a cheatsheet or some elaborate plan to cheat during testing time, I would definately work with someone to figure out how to do a physics lab or something of that sort. I don't know if "collaboration" is considered "cheating," because if it is, then I don't know how you people expect no one to work together to figure out really challenging work. I think that people helping each other understand and solve projects/problems is awesome and a really valuable way of learning. If I have no idea how to do some graded homework assigment, I see no problem with asking a student who does understand it to explain to me how I should go about figuring it out.</p>
<p>also, why is it that "nice guys finish last"? :(</p>
<p>seems to me like society promotes cheating and getting ahead by whatever means possible.</p>
<p>Yes this is what capitolism does for ya.</p>
<p>There's no point to right a wrong.</p>
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<p>You spelled "you" wrong, you domestic retard. At least his mistake is plausible, seeing as capitol IS a word; it's also an easy mistake to make for any person for whom English is not a native language.</p>
<p>If it was a typo, so what. At least he didn't intentially subtitute a letter for a monosyllabic word. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>almost everyone has cheated in high school.
Our current valedictorian openly said in AP economics (while the teacher was out of the room) that she changes her grades for band(yes it counts in gpa) because she thinks that the teacher grades too hard. eh, no one cares.</p>
<p>has anyone cheated their way up to top five percent?</p>
<p>A girl at my school was valedictorian. Then she admitted to our local newspaper that she cheated. I don't know if she cheated one time, or cheated to get her way up there. But thanks to her, our school has a reputation for cheating. Our rival schools always reminds us of that every time we go to a game.</p>
<p>to the OP im in a very similar situation, which i DONT consider cheating.</p>
<p>on my ap chem midterm, my teacher took my calculator and implied that im going to get a 0 because i had a chart of solubilitys rules in it.
Yet, he NEVER stated that we could not put stuff into our calculator, and everyone in the class did, i was the one who got caught though. He had the opporutnity to tell us to erase everything, or even tell us we couldnt put anything in our calculator and he DIDNT.</p>
<p>heck, on the ap exam what i did is perfectly LEGIT and would not have gotten me in any trouble with collegeboard, yet i know hes going to take this to its full extent.</p>
<p>"also, why is it that "nice guys finish last"? </p>
<p>It matters what race you're talking about, and that depends upon your values. If you're talking about the competition to be admired for one's character and ethics, then nice guys do not finish last. </p>
<p>To me, if a person cheats, I don't care if they are valedictorian. I'm not impressed.</p>
<p>Really depends on what is considered cheating. I will never ever cheat on a test. But I have sometimes split up a grade homework with friends and then shared answers when there are a ton of work to do. I dont think it is worth the risk. If you cheat on one test you will be tempted to do it again. If you have this habit in college then you can get screwed over badly.</p>
<p>Wow, I'm willing to bet everyone who's posted here against cheating is an upstanding moral role model! None of you have ever cheated, lied, speeded (in a car and IMO, this is 10x more immoral than cheating on a homework assignment), stolen, or done anything else that could be considered immoral, huh?</p>
<p>Everyone does cheat. When people say that, they obviously don't mean <em>everyone</em> - it's a generalization, so jeez, calm down. I have seen blatant and known cheaters apply to NHS and get accepted, and I have seen them get into colleges like William & Mary and UVA. Does cheating show your lack of integrity? Absolutely. Will it kick you in the a-- when you're in college? Definitely. But does it make you a bad person? Well, maybe if you're anal retentive, but I can tell you that I know people who don't cheat but are still awful individuals, as opposed to people who have cheated in the past but are still wonderful people.</p>
<p>And for all those people comparing cheaters to ax murderers, way to exaggerate. I half expected someone to compare cheaters to nazis or something with the way you all were going on about 'omg cheating iz as immoral as killing ppl!!1'. </p>
<p>Man, and some of you are supposed to be <em>adults</em>. Grow up -- cheating happens every day in real life, whether it's in the form of a test or taxes. Deal with it.</p>
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<p>We do deal with it. We deal with cheating on a test by giving a zero for the test a possibly a suspension. We deal with cheating on taxes with a fine and possibly some jail time. Simple.</p>
<p>has anyone here heard of cheater mc peter betha</p>
<p>anitavm, i got a 0 on an exam this year because i was late to the class(my dad called, but the front office said i was supposed to report my tardy immediately rather going to class first) so i wasn' tallowed to take it. that moved me grade from A to an A-(90)...<em>sigh</em> i was lucky because i was doing well in the class.</p>
<p>to OP: write a very powerful essay and reflect upon your experience.</p>
<p>many terrible things happened to me my junior year-i didn't even cheat. i didn't do anything wrong. </p>
<p>guess what, i think i need to let my colleges know what really happened last year</p>
<p>i didn't know kohlberg was a harvard professor! i learned his theories in religion, yet i never brought it up in my interview!</p>
<p>NOW-there are too many regrets in life. </p>
<p><em>sighz</em>...</p>
<p>i'd like know if anyone here hasn't taken a tiny peek at Sparknotes, cliffnotes, monkey notes, or any sort of study guide.</p>
<p>wait, why would study guides be considered cheating?</p>