<p>So I took the ACT for the first time last month, and I honestly wasn't feeling very well. They put me next to one of the smartest girls in our school, and then I couldn't help but cheat off of her. I have never done something this low and it's literally been giving me anxiety and making me sick since the test. I just got my scores today and I know they are way better than they should have be (because of the cheating). I haven't sent my scores to any colleges (and I'm not going to because what I did was wrong) but I'm terrified that her scores are going to get cancelled because I screwed up and was stupid. Is there any way I can contact the ACT and sort this out so her scores don't get cancelled (without her or anyone else knowing)? Please help me and don't make me feel worse than I already do. I'm not normally like this and I literally feel sick because of what I did.</p>
<p>Dude…y would u cheat. You have 3 options, u could tell ACT and possibly get rejected from a lot of colleges, you could tell her the truth, or her score might get annoyed as if she did not cheat. DO NOT SEND IN YOUR FALSE SCORES, IF YOUR HONEST WITH YOURSELF THAN YOU WON’T. People get high grade on exams by studying, NEVER CHEAT</p>
<p>Don’t worry about her scores, they’ll be fine. What you did was wrong, of course, so you now have two options:
Man up and tell ACT that you cheated: This gets you a “Thank you for your honesty”, a nullification of your scores, and probably whatever proctor you had is out of a part-time job.
Forget about it: This gives you a college slot at the expense of others, might allow a better chance at upper-league schools, and a decent amount of scholarship money. Joe Bloggs is going to be off wondering why he got waitlisted instead of accepted, and you’ll be in Rather Good Pedigree U.</p>
<p>I, depending on my grade level (I hope you aren’t a senior…) would dial them up and cancel if I had time for another two takes. If you are a senior, and running low on opportunities to take the test, than forget it and submit your scores.</p>
<p>Well… if you have time, you could just take the test again without cheating, and only send the scores from the new test regardless of whether they are higher or lower than the original ones. This will only work for schools that do not require all scores – although honestly I don’t think colleges have a way to check if they got all your dates.</p>
<p>However… it costs to send scores, and if your parents are helping you by providing the credit card, they would surely want an explanation if they notice you are sending lower scores…</p>
<p>I don’t think you have a choice to just ‘cancel’ your scores, at least not once you get past a certain number of days after the test. I am sure it is too late now for that.</p>
<p>How do you cheat? Copy the bubbled in answers? They give test takers the same answer sheets?</p>
<p>Yes to the person above me. Also, if I just don’t send my ACT scores at all (I can send my SAT scores), will this prevent any possible cancellation to the other girl’s scores?</p>
<p>Interesting. You should google “accused of cheating on the ACT”. I thought it was more complicated. Not that I plan to try it (I’m 54!), just seems more complicated given what I read here. My son was accused after turning on his kindle when he was finished with the test. </p>
<p>Hope you do the right thing. This might help</p>
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<p>Exactly how good was the score you just received? Do you have any chance of beating it on your own?</p>
<p>The way I see it, you’ve three options:</p>
<p>1) Turn yourself into ACT. This option is what one with integrity would do. Your score will be canceled, but you’ll have peace of mind. </p>
<p>2) Don’t use your score, don’t tell ACT. Not recommended. You wouldn’t be taking responsibility for your actions. </p>
<p>3) Don’t say anything, use your score. Absolutely the worst option. This is a scummy, cheap move. It is unfair to those who worked on the test to have someone who cheated getting an advantage over them.</p>
<p>I urge you to turn yourself into ACT. It may be the hard route, but it is the honest one. Whether or not you tell the person you cheated off of is up to you, but I would.</p>
<p>Can I delete my score permanently or is it too late for that? I still have one more chance to take it (I am a senior) but I know that my score without cheating will be much lower than the one I just got, so I would just prefer to not even have this one in record.</p>
<p>First of all, don’t beat yourself up too much. You made a mistake, but it doesn’t look like the plan to gain anything by using the ‘dirty’ scores.<br>
If I were you, I would just retake the test, study, and only send the new scores. I see no reason for you to risk a penalty to yourself and potentially the proctor (though if they let you get off with cheating, perhaps they should be penalized). I don’t see any reason the other girl’s scores would be touched. </p>
<p>Just my advice though, do what you feel you need to do to clear your conscience.</p>
<p>I’m just worried about the other girl’s scores because I don’t want them to think it was her that was cheating. To be honest I don’t think my proctor even noticed.</p>
<p>I don’t really see why they would think she was cheating if you fessed up…</p>
<p>I mean if I didn’t say anything about the cheating, but I just didn’t use the scores…</p>
<p>You’re gonna have to use the scores if you don’t say anything about it, you don’t get to pick. </p>
<p>Honesty is the best policy. Just fess up and apologize to the girl. Besides, if you’re not gonna use those ACT scores and you retake the test, you’ll do a lot worse on it and people will probably know there is something wrong.</p>
<p>Just don’t use the score. That simple</p>
<p>Is there a way to permanently delete my score? I heard there was if you write to the ACT headquarters or something.</p>
<p>Her scores weren’t cancelled - otherwise, yours would be as well. You should ask her what she got on her ACT to make sure.
But don’t call the ACT, that will **** you over.</p>
<p>Oh so if you’re scores were going to be cancelled you would find out before you received your scores? I thought that they could cancel them even after you already received them.</p>
<p>Yeah if you got a score report back I’m pretty sure they didn’t know. Now it’s just a matter of principle and whether or not you could live with using the scores or not, sadly most people would use them these days I think… I’ve never heard of anyone admit to cheating on the ACT so no telling how they’d react and how it would effect college admissions. You could always create an email and ask their support team hypothetically what would happen if you were really paranoid about it, but not using the score would be the right thing to do regardless if you notify ACT or not.</p>