<p>To the op: </p>
<p>I didn’t mean it when I said that earlier. A good friend of mine had been wait listed at Cornell, and I come from an urban area surrounded by rich prep schools were students go unpunished for this type of action. </p>
<p>I wish you all the best. Your story has changed me, a person who’d email his homework to anyone interested, to a person who will never be involved with cheating ever again. (I guess me being angry was a bit hypocritical)</p>
<p>Hey, I’m a student at Cornell and I think you’ll be okay.
You have two options:
<p>If this is not on your permanent record, I suggest you take a gap year. Do something interesting like travel so you have something to talk about in your next personal statement. If it is on your permanent record, this is less recommended; however, you have an opportunity to explain it away. There were several students from my high school who were caught cheating. They took a gap year and reapplied (two out of four got into ivies). </p>
<p>Community college is a solid option too, and would be the best solution if you got caught cheating. You did not waste four years acquiring a 4.0 GPA and stellar SAT scores. Colleges will ask you what your high school records were when you apply to transfer. One of my friends got into some great schools but couldn’t afford to go because he screwed up and forgot to submit financial aid. He went to community college for a year and then applied to and was accepted at Penn.</p>
<p>Wow, I’m really sorry for you. Tons of people at my school do stuff like this (on practice AP FRQs in particular, by looking the answers up on CB), and teachers would never think to report this to colleges. Especially if a student gets into a place like Cornell, I would expect teachers not to actively jeopardize a student’s offer of admission.</p>
<p>Seems like you got extremely unlucky with a very unforgiving and uncooperative administration, plus a strict policy on the part of Cornell. What did you end up deciding?</p>
<p>This is definitely a wake up call - not that I have cheated myself, but this does show how quickly it can all be snatched away just because of one instance of poor judgment.</p>
<p>You are kidding me right? This isn’t even up to a quarter of cheating that goes on at my school. Appeal please! This is utterly ridiculous.</p>