<p>Here's the link to UNC's Honor Code: UNC</a> Honor System. UNC has a well developed code that is respected on the campus itself. Please read it. </p>
<p>I would encourage you to politely and sincerely let the UNC Honor Council know how you feel about the "coming forward" issue with the HS cheats- based on the news and TV articles, not student opinion posts that we have here. The identities of these cheating students are well known in the CHHS community and their identities will not simply fade into the woodwork of the large UNC population next year. Deserving students who might possibly have to see these kids on the UNC campus are repulsed by the thought. I would not bombard the honor council with emotional rhetoric. Approach your concerns in a well thought out non-emotional way. We do not have the data on the admissions committee decisions and, as another poster pointed out, never will due to confidentiality regulations. Just my thoughts if you feel a need to respond in a proactive way. </p>
<p>UNC is a good school and, like any other university or college, is unable to filter all of the dishonest applicants. Look at what happened at MIT last year. The Dean of Admissions was dishonest about her credentials and carried on this sham for decades. Fortunately she did the right thing by resigning rather than attempting to drag MIT through some legal foolishness.</p>
<p>do you think someone there reads these posts just to keep up with what everyone is saying and already understands how everyone feels? since some schools have an admissions person reading and answering questions on this site, I just assumed many schools read these posts.</p>
<p>2007mom,
I don't know the answer to your question. I am sticking my neck out a bit by suggesting contact with UNC. The honor code they have is so impressive. I do hope they realize that the community is watching to see what they will do and, if they chose to rescind the admission for these kids, it would send a good message out to the students at CHHS and would also support the honor code the new principal is trying to establish there. my suggestion is in response to these honest kids that are so pained by what has happened.</p>
<p>This scandal and how it's been handled doesn't change my view of UNC at all. The whole Honor Code policy and the "come forward" approach has been UNC's stance on both criminal charges and cheating for years. I don't believe UNC should have to change its approach for this situation. Also, I don't believe it's fair to assume that just because a student comes forward, that they will get a "free pass". I actually know of an individual who had to write a letter to UNC after he was admitted. Although he didn't cheat, he was charged with a crime, contacted UNC (as outlined in the honor code) and was later told he could not enroll. It's surely a disappointing situation for CHHS community, but I think UNC is taking the correct measures by staying consistent.</p>
<p>I have to say my esteem for any university would be lowered if it were to admit a student who was engaged in long-term, systematic cheating of the sort alleged or admitted here. A truly principled stance must be taken and important standards upheld. Students at our service academies have this honor code:"We wil not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate among us those who do." Does this seem draconian? Young officers are entrusted with the very lives of our youth, which is one reason for such high standards of honor, but why should the same standards not apply to anyone? There may be rationalizations for cheating, but something on this scale could never be justified. There is no room for moral relativism on this one, IMHO.</p>
<p>I would still attend UNC next year, but I feel that If they still let kids in who cheated that would undermine not only UNC's honor system but the honor system of every highschool in NC. It just sends a bad message to other kids who do cheat.</p>
<p>if they admit the kids that cheated, that would hurt any school and not just UNC. It would also hurt those kids because they were not admitted on their own merits and don't need to be at a school the calibre of Carolina. I am sure UNC will do the right thing and anyone found to have cheated and misrepresented themselves will be held responsible for their actions.</p>