Please help

<p>I just got academic dishonesty and am a sophomore in high school. We had a poetry project and I needed an analysis/paraphrase of poem and I told my friend to do it. My friend finished my title and what I thought was a paraphrase/analysis from him. He had this on the document . He never told me it was from a website. He only told me after he had done when I saw him in the bathroom " hey I finished some of your project you wanted me to do but some teachers were in the back so I did not finish most of it" so I trusted him and just copied and pasted what he had and sorta finished it myself. Me thinking he had done it himself I turned in my project and now a few days later am now charged / have academic dishonesty. </p>

<p>Is there anyway I could get out of this?
Would it help if I told them this is what really happened ? </p>

<p>I had dreams of becoming a politician/go into law school. Should I change my plans? </p>

<p>My second plan was to go to med school and become a cardiac surgeon or pediatrician while being a personal trainer as my second job to make a few more bucks to pay for med school and as a job. Should I follow this path? </p>

<p>Have any of you had academic dishonesty? If so how did you deal with it and how are you doing now. And how did it effect you and your future?</p>

<p>You’re only a sophomore. lame move asking your friend to do it, though. very uncool. but you’re still young so you can say you grew from it. if you pull this again it won’t go over well though. It won’t hurt you that much as long as you dont do it junior/senior</p>

<p>Does it ruin my chances though? I mean I’m definitely learning from this already but does it ruin my chances of becoming a cardiac surgeon, pediatrician, politician or lawyer? Btw how can I improve from this</p>

<p>No, it doesn’t ruin your chances. just talk about how you’ve learned from your mistakes in your application and you wouldn’t do it again. don’t worry about it–it may limit you for top tier colleges but your chances aren’t too bad. You can absolutely be those things! you’re only a sophomore. If you have the grades/SATs/ECs for it I can’t see it holding you back from anything other than the top 20 unis and top 10 LACs.</p>

<p>I go to a boarding school, and one of my best friends here was kicked out of his last school for academic dishonesty. After that, he was accepted here and has applied for early admission to Wake Forest with a lot of confidence. It does not ruin your chances, but it’ll put a noticeable dent in your applications.</p>