<p>Wait, if he knew you were staring at his answer sheet, what makes you think he won’t report you?</p>
<p>ohh he knew you were cheating off him. WOW </p>
<p>Well he should report you dude. there are people out there who study their butts off to get NM semi finalist, and it is so unfair to the world that you get it for cheating off someone else.</p>
<p>Besides why would you want to go to a good school if you aren’t even confident that your intelligent enough to do well on tests? You can cheat on a test, but you can’t cheat reality.</p>
<p>First of all, I doubt that you’ll be caught. If your answers were literally identical then they would have a reason to suspect, but it doesn’t sound like that’s the case. </p>
<p>Don’t listen to seattle_mom. What’s done is done, and we realize that you’re sorry. Time to get over the immorality of the situation. Declining semi status wouldn’t benefit anyone. Think about it, maybe you would have gotten semi status even without cheating; ultimately you should take what you’re given but paired with the knowledge that you were lucky. </p>
<p>Don’t even think about cheating on the SAT. Again, you were lucky this time, but if you are caught cheating then you’ll be ruined. </p>
<p>Yeah, good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks I really appreciate the advice unholy sigma. That was really helpful, and I feel a lot better about the situation. Thank you</p>
<p>So why exactly are you coming on CC to confess? You’ve never posted anything else, and never helped out anyone on the site. You’ve decided to do an emotional vomit all over us, for no apparent reason other than to make yourself feel better some how. People on this site work VERY hard for the scores they get, and they take themselves and their education seriously. You’re just slapping everyone in the face, in a forum where there’s no direct consequences to you. Let us know when you actually turn yourself in, then we can talk.</p>
<p>live and learn . . . guess it wasn’t worth it, huh?</p>
<p>Kei</p>
<p>@ swans004-everyone makes mistakes …give the guy a break</p>
<p>I’m going to draw a parallel to this situation. If you ever commit a crime (I’m talking jail time here), you are not supposed to talk to the cop. Every lawyer (I am not a lawyer and this is just my belief, not legal advice) will tell you to invoke your right to remain silent. You cheated, live and learn dude. We all cheat sometimes. Whatever you do, don’t compound your problems by confessing. Just take whatever life decides to throw at you. And, yeah, you most likely won’t get caught. Just shut up about the event, don’t tell anyone (even close friends), and learn from it.</p>
<p>Most people on here are like:
Guys chance me for the Ivy league, im really worried, i dont think i can go to college, my stats are i go to Philips Exeter Academy and i am valedictorian, i start and am captain of football, basketball, and lacrosse. I am president of 5 clubs and have done over 1000 hours of community service and i also saved an orphanage from a fire and oh i also published 5 books, but despite all this I’m still really worried because if you dont go to Harvard, you’re not a person.</p>
<p>Seriously, a lot of people on this site are ridiculously pompous bastards, everyone makes mistakes, listen maddy, dont turn yourself in, i think you are already suffering the consequences with your guilt. Just live and learn.</p>
<p>Score descrepancies between PSAT and SAT will raise validity check problems.</p>
<p>wow you sound like Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment!</p>
<p>Don’t turn yourself in, but don’t do it again! Now you know. Anyway, there won’t really be any reward unless your SAT scores match up. So, there you have it. Also, don’t post about these things on the internet. You do probably need to see a counselor, outside of the school system (please!), to deal with your fear of failure, though. The kind of anxiety that would lead you to this kind of thing cannot be easy to live with.</p>
<p>haha ur dumb to think that PSAT even counts for anything.</p>
<p>and I know people who cheated on the SAT/ACT, took tests for other people, etc…so you did not really do anything that bad…</p>
<p>If you confess, it should be because you know what you did is wrong and want to fix it, not because you’re scared of being caught.</p>
<p>Anyway, they will not know you cheated by comparing your score with someone else you cheated off of. If they did catch you, they would have already, but telling you during the test and not submitting your answer sheet.</p>
<p>I hear just two things from the OP: 1) excuses for why she did it and 2) fear of getting caught. I don’t hear any guilt, remorse, or recognition from her (or most others on this thread) regarding the fundamental lack of ethics and moral judgment here. I am still not sure the OP gets it. </p>
<p>If you haven’t started to develop a moral compass and character by now, you really do not belong in a top school. Those schools are not and never were just looking for top scorers or those who can game the most.</p>
<p>Cheating was a dumb thing to do. Not only is it unfair to everyone else who worked hard to honestly reach a goal, but it shows a lot about your character. I don’t think you should worry about being caught. I think you should worry about your lack of confidence. Yeah, there’s a lot of pressure on everyone to succeed. But the fact that you crumbled under the pressure, did not believe in your own skill, and relied on someone else shows that you are pretty insecure. I think it’s more important to deal with that than to worry about whether or not you get caught.</p>
<p>And to whoever that guy was (think his name was NewJersey or something like that) who said that everyone’s a ■■■■■ and the OP should be praised for “beating the system.” Well, you criticize the system, but how else do you propose to thin out millions of students objectively and accurately? Yeah, ideally, we’d all be called “special” and we’d all make wonderful contributions to the world, but there are way too many people for that. The people who work the hardest and train themselves to succeed have the best chance. We can’t have private, personal evaluations for every single kid. That would take forever and it just wouldn’t work. The system isn’t perfect, but maybe most of its problems comes from cheaters. So “beating the system” is only creating a reason for the system needing to be beat.</p>
<p>Look, Maddy, you sound like a smart girl/guy. I dunno you personally, but I can say that everyone cheats at one point in their lives and/or makes some stupid mistake. Don’t confess; that’s just stupid. But just do it again. It’s really annoying to the people who have to do it the honest way.</p>
<p>Move on. </p>
<p>I’m sure other people cheat too.</p>
<p>Its fine.</p>
<p>If it bothers you so much, just dont do it.</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>“you did what you had to do to reach your goal, and you will reap the benefits”</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever seen as heartless, cold, and calculated a remark as this on CC. That is utterly ridiculous.</p>
<p>Ends certainly do not always justify the means, especially for something as petty as a standardized test.</p>
<p>I do know that the college board accused a boy and the person sitting next to him of cheating on the SAT based on the way they answered the questions on the test. College board revoked their scores and that was that. He was still accepted into a good university and did well but I don’t know how they handled his not having scores.</p>
<p>Maybe he took the ACT.</p>
<p>Of course there is always the fear of being caught, but thats not to say that I am not truly sorry for what I have done. I’ve really learned from my mistakes, you can be sure of that. I also agree with wittywonka; the ends certainly do not always justify the means, and they definitely don’t in this situation. I cheated myself because I didn’t have enough confidence to do it on my own, and I will never know how I could have done on my own.</p>