Law School Chances with Academic Dishonesty?

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<p>I had a really horrible professor for a journalism class this spring.
I got A's on all her assignments, but I cited a paragraph of our final paper incorrectly. She thought this was enough to convict me of academic dishonesty, and I accepted the punishment because I didn't want to question her authority.
The punishment was an F in the class and having to take an academic dishonesty course.</p>

<p>I'm retaking the class again right now, and she has accused me of academic dishonesty AGAIN because ONE sentence in one of my homeworks is similar to a friends' who took the class last spring. The professor knows the girl and I are friends, but I didn't steal her paper and my friend is willing to say this in front of our school's academic court.</p>

<p>The sentence was really generic, and only 70% similar. my entire paper only matched safeassign's database by 4%.</p>

<p>do i have any chance of winning this case? and if i get another F and a permanent mark of academic dishonesty, do i still have a chance of getting into a low-tier law school?</p>

<p>I have gotten all As in my classes and am really smart so I dont think my GPA will suffer too much, im just worried about the dishonesty notation.</p>

<p>I just finished freshman year, and i plan on applying to law school in 2015, a year after I graduate (so i can gain experience).</p>

<p>What do you guys think?</p>

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<p>im also trying to transfer to fordham lincoln center or st johns in a year… will this affect that transfer process as well?</p>

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You should post this in the parents forum because some of the people who read it are lawyers. The concern isn’t law school (they take money from paying applicants) but the State Bar. If you can’t get admitted to the Bar then you can’t be a lawyer.</p>