Alright hi everyone! I’m just a student that lives in Florida and I am so afraid about if I will get into a good college. I don’t want to go to like a local university, but a prestigious in state or out of state university. Recently, I was caught cheating on a test. The cheating specifically happened over the weekend, two days before the test. We were doing group projects and a person from each group makes a test that they saved under their school account in Google Drive. If people used common sense, they would be able to access anyone’s account because other students can find another students school ID and the password consists of certain elements that can be easily found. So I hacked into the other group’s account for answers, which I don’t know if it’s technically cheating. Besides, it’s the county’s fault for not securing school accounts with this faulty idea. Eventually, this girl decided towork with me then be a hypocrite and turn me in. She was “impressed ngl” by what I did. I still wonder what punishment she got. Anyways, I got caught and was written a referral. The assisstant principal talked to me and said I could get suspended for this. Because I am actually a good student: outstanding grades, good conduct, and whatnot, he said he would give me two Saturday detentions and I was cool with that. Now this was in an AP Spanish elective class that colleges probably never care about. I got kicked out of the Spanish National Honor Society for this which I was never interested in anyways. However, like a WHOLE MONTH later they call my parents to tell me I get kicked out of the National Honor Society, which I care about. They say I can appeal and stuff. From what I read in college confidential, they say NHS isn’t something so big colleges consider in application. Now, I’m a good student, straight A’s through high school with only 1 C for a semester grade in that Spanish class, not a single B throughout. I’m just a junior and even though I have other “special” elements to get into college, I don’t know what’s going to happen and if I should appeal. Considering that this won’t technically be in my transcript, are they allowed to kick me out of NHS? By the way I used be ranked #1 for the first two years of high school. Our valedictorian for the seniors also cheated too but was never turned in and punished after he physically cheated in my favorite world history teacher’s class. It’s not fair and our school system is skewed. I don’t deserve to be #1 but I’m a good student and I just wanted to keep the good grades up. My real question is what going to happen?
You are very,very lucky that you weren’t suspended. Now you need to take responsibility for your actions and accept the consequence of being removed from NHS. You cheated - you really have no basis for appeal.
It would also serve you well to learn from your mistake, own up to it and show a bit of maturity. Your contention that it is the ‘county’s fault for not securing the account’ shows an enormous lack of maturity on your part. It is no one’s fault except your own and yes it is ‘technically’ cheating. The girl that turned you in is not a ‘hypocrite’, she did the right thing. You may be a good student as you claim, but from your post you should work harder on being a good person.
How is logging into another student’s account for answers for an upcoming test not blatantly cheating?. Then you go onto fault the system for not setting up a more secure system? I’d say you got let off relatively lightly. Anyways, NHS really doesn’t matter to colleges as the requirement to be in NHS varies per school or region. It really only matters if you had a leadership role in it, as most top applicants are eligible for NHS. By your account, it seems like the whole incident is over now.
Okay so like chill out. What I said about the security at stuff, I’m not blaming the county. Anyone can access it, so even if it wasn’t me, anyone could have hacked. Also, of course I accepted my consequences and I owned up to it. I was just wondering, I know that the referral will get expunged because no school wants their top students to stay in the bottom. Also, if you were certainly few points away from an A, I’m sure that SOME people would do what I did to save themselves. I admit what I did was wrong and it’s my first misdemeanor or criminal action. The punishment that I received made me want to laugh, spending Saturday mornings doing homework and listening to music. In fact, getting kicked out was worse than my punishment. Btw that senior valedictorian that was a cheater had a leadership position in NHS. Now that’s some bull that pisses me off because that’s unfair for what he did.