<p>i know someone in my school who is an impeccable student (3.8ish gpa, 2200+ sats, officer of numerous clubs, eagle scout), yet an immoral human. he does everything only to advance his position for college admissions.</p>
<p>he is applying to numerous top tier schools, and he probably will be accepted, but i feel as though if they knew one small detail about him, they would reject him immediately.</p>
<p>what happened was, a student plagiarized from numerous sources on numerous occasions in the school newspaper. however, the incident is not on his permanent record because he cried to the principal to get out of it.</p>
<p>stay out of the kid's business. there will always be cheaters. you seem to be kinda bitter about it, but my advice is to work hard and forget about the loser. if you're intelligent and dedicated, you'll get good opportunities in life. maybe this kid really is sorry about his plagairism. maybe he deserves a second chance. maybe he doesn't, and he'll go out and do it again - if he does, all of that cheating will catch up with him, but you'll be content working hard and worrying about yourself, not spending all of your time figuring out how to give other people their "just desserts".</p>
<p>Send in a copy of his plagiarized material to all the schools he's applying to...</p>
<p>jk.</p>
<p>But seriously... I see kids like this all the time. All they do is to work hard to get into college. You could ruin his dreams if you really hate him, but who cares. There are hundreds of others like him.</p>
<p>I think you should turn him in. Anonymously. Take a couple of specific instances of his plagiarism by xeroxing parts of the school newspaper. Mail to the admission offices with a couple of lines in the bold "PLAGIARISM by ONE OF YOUR APPLICANTS" so that they don't miss it.
When good people choose to do nothing, evil will flourish.</p>
<p>It's not "evil" to make a mistake and apologize. I assume this kid is not getting into college on the merit of those articles, but on other, hard-earned talents. </p>
<p>What is evil is to be vindicitive and jealous of this kid's achievements to the point where you would capitilize on a mistake he has asked forgiveness for for the sole purpose of causing him unhappiness.</p>
<p>You can't do anything, its not a permanent record. Are you going to tell the colelge that he did something as serious as plagarism, and not have any proof to show for your assertions.</p>
<p>well, it depends on your morals... maybe you should tell him about it.. if he acts like '**** off' attitude then kick his ass and send it in</p>
<p>I cite the exaple of 'Gina Grant'. she killed her mother as a child and played on the 'orphan' fact. Someone anonymously sent in the newspaper clip to harvard and in a day they kicked her ass and rejected her after accewpting her previously.</p>
<p>I am a strong believer in truth and I would talk to him. if he stops or seems apologetic, maybe let it pass... but if he cries out of it like a sissy or a pompous-ass then he deserves to be strung upside down naked in Central park during the winter i.e thou can reveal him</p>
<p>Normally, I am a strong advocate of turning in cheaters. However, this is not a normal case, as the cheater has already been turned in.</p>
<p>There seem to be two problems here. First, the kid plagiarized. That's been reported to the appropriate authorities (the principal), and they have decided to expunge it from the record. You should defer to the principal's judgement and avoid an end run going directly to the college.</p>
<p>The second problem seems to be that you're a little bit bitter about how the kid in question does everything just for the sake of college admissions. Yes, that's wrong. But there really isn't anything you can do. No rules are being broken, and what he is doing can't be quantified, much less proven.</p>
<p>actually i should edit my post, it turns out that the only authority figure who knew about the incident was the journalism teacher, and she chose not to report it to the principals for further mediation.</p>