<p>Recently there has been two events that will result in a disciplinary report to Cornell University. The first involves improper citations for an internal assessment and the second involves making up of data for another internal assessment (I know its pretty bad :<). The thing is that these two events happened in tangent to each other so that I got caught for both and never learned my lesson as to avoid the second one. For the first one, I just removed the parts that were improperly cited, and IB was okay with it. The second one, I re-did the lab completely.</p>
<p>I was accepted early decision and applied to nowhere else. Even with the cheating, I have maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout high school and will keep it that way until school is over. My high school classes are still extremely rigorous and I still maintain all of my extracurriculars (which by the way are also respectable, presidents/captains of like 4 clubs/sports). **PS: Im not trying to be an overly obnoxious braggart. ALL of my test scores are exemplary (~10 AP tests all 5's, and yes I did not cheat on those...) and there is no indication of any sort that I misbehaved at all (recommendations were perfect and portrayed me as the perfect student...making me currently look like a cunning/deceiving fool really good at cheating and not getting caught until this year...which is completely false as I only participated in serious cheating this year...due to senioritis/laziness/stress all compounded together)</p>
<p>What are the chances of me getting rescinded? I mean will they seriously consider denying someone's entrance whose sole choice for college was Cornell (I have no other options for schools)? If I did get rescinded my mind/life would literally be blown into oblivion...</p>
<p>PLZ RESPOND!! And, yes by this time I think I will never even conspire of cheating again. Lesson learned.</p>
<p>We can’t answer that question. I’d advise calling up the admissions office and explaining the situation from your perspective. Or, email them and try to be more concise that you were above. Best of luck.</p>
<p>It was a bio internal assessment and the teacher said it was imperative to get like 30 data points. After the first/second round of data collecting, the trend was obvious and due to limited time, I bsed the rest of the data for the sake of redundancy; however, now i feel like ■■■.</p>
<p>Apparently, the teacher thought I didnt do all the work (I was rather fast at the data collection). Through an incredibly deliberate interrogation, I quickly admitted to my wrongdoings and re-did the entire lab with a different prompt.</p>
<p>In both cases, my IAs were virtually 90% of my own work. The first, I had plagiarized ideas (I think the teacher came to this conclusion after a bunch of students had the same answers. I am pretty confident a good majority of the students in my class used the same resource online. Some were better at re-configuring their thoughts. Others were less refined at this skill, including me. I know of at least ~5 students who also got in trouble. <em>PS at this point in time, you’ll be thinking about the integrity of the entire IB program at this school</em>* Otherwise, everything else was original. The teacher also noted that my other IA was superior (i.e. this IA was before I found out I was admitted to Cornell). </p>
<p>So, now I feel like I am going to die. My stomach is churning and I feel dizzy. Any honest comments on my situation would be very helpful.</p>
<p>Also, I forgot to mention this detail: at first, after the first incident of cheating, the counselor agreed to not tell Cornell or IB; however, in the ensuing days after, the IB counselor holded a meeting for all IB teachers about the prevalent cheating at our school. This consequently caused the first IB teacher (who found out about the bsing of the data and did not report to the IB counselor as I had already re-did the entire lab) to report this incident again. This effectively made it so now the IB counselor has to tell Cornell even though only one warning was actually given out. I know its confusing and I am not sure how all of these events conspired just to f with my life. I had learned my lesson in the most dreadful way and now I have to deal with a sort of ex-post-facto incidence that might potentially ruin my life.</p>
<p>But really, I am not complaining about the course of the events. I just really want to know whether the repercussions will include me getting rescinded?</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m just using this post as a huge spasm of my fried-over psyches right now.</p>
<p>I don’t think this is going to hurt you much but I think you should give them a reasonable explanation for the cheating. Apologize and then say you will never do this ever again and that if you do, they have the right to kick you out.</p>
<p>The assistant principal told me to wait for the IB counselor to contact Cornell before I send my explanations of the course of events (apparently this would cause less confusion). Anyhow, I am sure Cornell is going to contact me anyhow. Hopefully, my counselor just does it ASAP</p>
<p>Are your parents in any way involved? If there is widespread cheating/plagiarizing at your school/IB program it seems at least some of the blame lies on the side of the educators. Im not trying to pass the buck in my comment, just reflecting that I know schools where such a situation is the norm, with the teachers and administration looking the other way till something big happens. Primarily that is because that would be the school culture. Then there are schools where that kind of thing would not happen at all, b/c the administration and teachers make sure it doesnt. So I would have your parents speaking to the counselor, asst principal and the guidance counselor asap.</p>
<p>Ok, first – no matter what happens, this incident will not ruin your life. There are people who have done a whole lot more than you who go to college and live successful lives. It’s not as dark as it seems. I promise.</p>
<p>Now here’s the good news -Cornell never wants to rescind a student. Unfortunately, as you are aware, what you’ve done is serious. No one here can say that they won’t rescind you. Cornell and other colleges take cheating seriously. Honestly, we don’t know, and I’m truly sorry I can’t say differently.</p>
<p>My advice – but please make sure you run this by your assistant principal and your IB counsellor before doing this-- can you get your counsellors and teachers (possibly even the teachers for whom you cheated) to write a recommendation for you at this time – something along the lines of you’ve been an exemplary student for four years, and they believe this was an aberration. I would think that as many of these as possible into Cornell could help a situation.</p>
<p>It sounds like you’ve learned your lesson. Good luck</p>
<p>And I don’t understand your citations violation. Did you plagiarize, or just incorrectly cite something? That sounds like an academic and not a moral error.</p>
<p>Using some online paper’s answer even though I had original steps leading up to the answer. Think of it as knowing the answer beforehand when doing a research project, which is apparently against IB rules. </p>
<p>I have never been caught looking at someone else’s paper or blatantly copying/pasting parts of papers. I guess the most severe is going online to find the answer. Apparently, the teacher found out because this paper was “blacklisted” by IB and every IB teacher knew about it. Moreover, a good handful of students in my class also used this same resource (i.e. if you google anything related to the case study, its like the first link to pop up…and once u inadvertently see the answer theres like no going back…well, at least for me)</p>