hey guys i have an important ?..
if a students has a cheating incident does he or she have to report it to college or not???..
if he does…how bad are his changes hurt and top schools if he has other stats consistent with what the school usually admits???
will anything like essays or additional letter help?
thanks
<p>Some schools require you to tell them if you have been suspended or "been disiciplined" for cheating or any other 'honor code' violation. Others dont even ask... </p>
<p>UGA for example automatically rejects everyone that has an incident of cheating on their record... Kentucky doesn't even ask...</p>
<p>I'm sure most Ivies will take it as a serious matter and some will even call the school to ask more about the situation and may even contact the student to ask them what happened.</p>
<p>It all depends</p>
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<p>Many schools ask on the GC form whether a student has been suspended or expelled. In addition, the GC may be asked to comment on the student's ethics.</p>
<p>If there are any cheating incidents that the GC is aware of -- whether or not they resulted in suspension or expulsion -- the GC would have to report these if the college requested such info. And yes, such incidents would greatly reduce one's chance of acceptance particularly to schools with strong honor codes and schools that have lots of excellent applicants.</p>
<p>Thus, colleges such as U Virginia, Davidson, Emory as well as places like HPYS are not likely to look favorably on reports that a student has cheated. They have plenty of other applicants who don't have that kind of blotch on their record.</p>
<p>Colleges that are more numbers driven -- such as most state universities, particularly those that aren't that competitive -- are not likely to hold the cheating against you.</p>
<p>The only thing that might save you at the more selective colleges would be a very thoughtful essay that explained what happened and how you have changed your behavior as a result of the incident.</p>
<p>One last thing: Some colleges will rescind admisionss if students are caught cheating after they have received their acceptances. In addition, if students falsify their application so as to indicate they never cheated in high school when actually they were caught cheating, if that lie is discovered, many colleges will rescind admission and even will rescind degrees if the student already has graduated.</p>
<p>P.S. "Everyone in my school cheats" is not considered an acceptable excuse. I mention this because some students who were caught cheating have posted here that they planned to use that as their explanation on their college application.</p>
<p>Our school has a 1 mistake, probation. However, if you don't make any more mistakes the rest of our four years at the school, it's cleared from the record and doesn't go to college.</p>
<p>Would counselors still have to report this?</p>
<p>Mashimaroban,
It matters how the college constructs the GC's recommendation form. Some ask specifically about a student's ethics. Presumably a student who had been caught cheating would not get high marks in that area -- whether or not the cheating was no longer on their record.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's true, I understand.
So, although they don't report that they were caught cheating (following my school's rule), they can still get bad marks for ethics. That makes sense. Thanks alot!</p>
<p>my friend were caught CHEATING for like 3 times, he got in UVa.</p>
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