<p>What brief statement is Princeton looking for?</p>
<p>Is saying that you agree not to give nor receive assistance during examinations and that you accept the honor code sufficient?</p>
<p>They are actually pretty serious about it, or were my year. During orientation they pulled people out who hadn't given satisfactory answers and made them write new ones or sign something, I forget which exactly. I know that I didn't have a sufficient answer for half of the question, although I forget which half. Lots and lots of people got atleast half wrong.</p>
<p>Also: you have to report violations of the Honor Code, otherwise you're breaking it yourself.</p>
<p>Does anyone else think its kinda nasty that we are basically forced to turn in our own classmates?</p>
<p>yeah, i was raised with the don't be a tattletale kind of thing as a kid w/ friends. </p>
<p>I hope i won't have to be in a situation where I would have to.</p>
<p>I don't see how they could enforce something like that - (The turning in your friends part). I wonder how serious people are about that...</p>
<p>I think the honor code sucks, but it is a very serious thing at Princeton...professors do actually leave the room during exams, and I personally know kids who have been expelled because of plagiarism, etc.</p>
<p>the honor code is kinda serious at first, but you get over it. </p>
<p>as for the paragraph statement, i just copied what they wrote in the "honor code" hahaha ;)</p>
<p>Actually, I find the teachers-not-proctoring system kind of annoying, since you have to leave the room and sometimes even go to the professor's room to ask a question. But its nice that they trust us, I guess.. :P</p>
<p>I haven't heard of anyone turning someone else in, but I'm sure it happens. You'll find out soon enough that there are some people who would think of that as betrayal among fellow students, and some people who are really serious about it and would turn in their roommate.</p>
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<p>A sizeable number of honor code cases are also brought against students by the administration, usually for plagiarism on papers. Make sure you add enough citations!</p>
<p>I came from a school that had a more rigorous and comprehensive honor system, so Princeton's idea of an honor code seemed too narrow to me. I got pulled at orientation to rewrite my paragraph because I had, without thinking, included a lot of things not covered by Princeton's code.</p>
<p>Care to share any of them? My HS also had a strong honor code, and I'm wondering if I might have unconsciously done the same thing you did?</p>
<p>Something along the lines of, "I will not lie, cheat, or steal, and I must report anyone who does." At my high school, we were not supposed to sign the pledge to any of our written work if we were aware of any breach in the honor code at all, including lying or stealing, but it's totally different at Pton. </p>
<p>But, if you did get it wrong in your paragraph, it's not a problem. They'll just make you spend two minutes rewriting it at orientation.</p>