You did something you shouldn’t and now you will have to face the consequences. I’m not sure what else we can tell you.
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Yes. I have all the advice I need for now. You can lock the thread if this is something that you guys do on here.
At best it is extremely poor judgment.
There is no reasonable way you can prove you did not intend to cheat. So your intent is irrelevant.
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This is probably a little overexaggerated. Many a student caught cheating has gone on to have a happy and successful life.
On a more serious note, I can tell you as a former cheater that the palm of your hand is the best place for a cheat sheet. Just be sure when you raise your hand to keep your fingers facing the teacher/proctor. Kind of like when the Queen Mum waves.
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Yes, I see that now. Hopefully proctor testimony will pull through and assuage any consequences that might be coming my way. I am hoping that only my test score will be canceled, and as many people have said to me, they won’t notify colleges or ban me from testing. That is all.
I mean, if they stop me from going to college or taking any other AP exams I’m done for.
No, you aren’t done for. There are always options.
In the event that this is a serious post, and you can see why some are skeptical, just apply without AP scores. Those don’t get you in anyway. Go to community college and transfer. That’s what I did.
Deep breath OP! You made a silly mistake and you will face some consequences. Whether it was intentional or not is besides the point. Once you are sure what exactly the consequences are you can forge a path forward. For now study for your next exam. I know it will be hard but life sometimes throws us these curveballs. Keep your head in the game. This might be the first but I can guarantee you it will not be the last time you will have to adjust course in your life. Sorry for the mom talk and I wish you all the luck and knowledge on your next AP exam!
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Your life is not over and you can still apply to colleges that you want to apply to. You can explain what happened. You will be fine.
If you are really really stressed and devastated, and feel your life is over, I beg you to talk to a counselor asap who can help put this in perspective.
You are a good person. You are not a cheater. The outside world has its institutional priorities that it has to abide by. This is not a bad lesson to learn and I am sorry you had to learn it this way. You are going to do fine in life.
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I talked to the counselor and he didn’t say much except “This is serious, but I cannot do much except listen and hope that you learned you lesson. If this were a college setting, you might be facing very serious consequences.” Basically, he said he can’t do anything. I was hoping he’d discuss any options and I even asked for an in person meeting but he didn’t reply.
But yes, thank you so much for the kind words!
Actually some colleges have warnings with required further education before serious consequences, for a first offense. Unfortunately since this is CB and the school is committed as well to CB, you are caught up in a system that is inflexible.
This will work out okay once some time passes and you will be able to explain to colleges. At that point a teacher, counselor or community member can attest to your character and support your story even. Don’t worry! What is scary here is the impersonal out of your control nature of this where your intentions and character would seem to count for nothing. The machinery of CB protocols is not personal. and this is not against you as a person. It is more to maintain the system.
The school decided not to take disciplinary action as I have nothing on my record and they believe that this was a stupid mistake. They said the rest is up to CollegeBoard and i may appeal.
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At least there’s a bright side.
OP, it’s time to look forward. You’ve got other grades/AP tests/classes to worry about and put this incident in the back of your mind for now. If an email comes from CB, worry about it then. Now is not the time to jeopardize everything else by spending all your time regretting. Just gotta roll with the punches.
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Hi! Can you delete this post and all the replies in this thread? Or at least let me remove some of the information in the original posts and delete the ones that might have identifying information (such as counselor replies and ankle/sister mentions, basically the first paragraph or so) and also delete the replies from other users that might have anything mentioning the ankle or my sister specifically? and After that’s done, can you delete this reply, too?
No, I’m sorry but the Terms of Service state that posts are not edited or deleted on request.
Even if it’s identifying information? I realized just now that it’s gotten 1.4k views and it’s making me really uncomfortable. I didn’t expect it to get this popular. I saw another thread that said identifying information can be removed. Even if it’s just the work ‘ankle’?
I hope you’re doing okay!
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If you had posted your name or your high school, we would have deleted that. Otherwise, no.
I’m doing a lot better than I was before-- especially since the school is on my side. I still am very nervous for CB’s ruling but based on the replies here it should end at them just canceling that one test score. Thank you for asking : )
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Wow, that sucks, but it is what it is, I guess. Thanks for the response!