<p>He might have an undiagnosed learning disability, which could also account for a disparity in verbal/math SAT scores.</p>
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I'm curious. On another thread, you say that your CR v is a 380 yet you're in the top 10% of your class and also are a native English speaker. The disparity between your high grades and (according to the testing) extraordinarily weak verbal skills makes me wonder whether you've been cheating your way through high school. How can you explain your high grades/class rank and weak verbal score? Even though your 700+ math SAT score indicates you have good skills in that area, your math skills couldn't be totally responsible for your high class rank.
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In my school if you do the work, you will get good grades. The average verbal score is 468 and the average math score is 480. The highest combined score in the history of the school was 2100 (received last year) followed by nothing greater than 1900.</p>
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Yes. I gave him the Embry-Riddle recommendation form. The way our school does the applications is ...
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<p>In that case, I think that you should go to the Chem teacher and let him know how sorry you are about what happened, promise him that you will never cheat again, and then ask him if it would affect the recommendation he is going to give. Tell him how much it means to you to go be going to Embry-Riddle. He'll probably help you out or tell you to get rec from another teacher.</p>
<p>CollegeBound's suggestion is the best.
Be straightforward and ask your teacher whether the plagiarism incident will be included in the letter. Under NO circumstances should you accept a letter of recommendation from a teacher who will mention your academic dishonesty. Few colleges will accept you after learning of plagiarism, even if you learned from it or confessed. Even if your teacher says he will not mention it directly, it will still probably influence some of his answers (eg, the ones about personal characteristics)
Get a recommendation from another teacher.</p>
<p>So when you say....</p>
<p>In my school if you do the work, you will get good grades. </p>
<p>What does that mean? Do you go to just an incredibly lousy school? Does it mean that really, everybody at your school cheats? I can see the teachers being pretty jaded about cheating if absolutely everybody cheats and the administration doesn't care....</p>
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So when you say....</p>
<p>In my school if you do the work, you will get good grades.</p>
<p>What does that mean? Do you go to just an incredibly lousy school? Does it mean that really, everybody at your school cheats? I can see the teachers being pretty jaded about cheating if absolutely everybody cheats and the administration doesn't care....
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Teachers do care. The students cheat anyway.
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In that case, I think that you should go to the Chem teacher and let him know how sorry you are about what happened, promise him that you will never cheat again, and then ask him if it would affect the recommendation he is going to give. Tell him how much it means to you to go be going to Embry-Riddle. He'll probably help you out or tell you to get rec from another teacher.
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I don't have any other teachers to ask for recs, because I do bad in their classes. :(</p>
<p>This is off-topic:
If you are struggling in your high school classes, you should think twice about taking up aerospace science or engineering in college immediately after high school. You may need more academic preparation such as that may be offered in a community college.</p>
<p>"students cheat anyway" may work in high school, but what about in college when you do not know how to do the stuff and are with other top kids who do? So you cheat then to stay with the group? And then when you get a job - you want to build airplanes, right? - and you mess up because you never learned the basics correctly in high school and college - then what?</p>