<p>Hi people, I have a last minute transfer update question.</p>
<p>At the beginning of last term, one of my profs accused me for plagiarism in one of my courses. Because of this I had to go through all the university procedure and had to see deans and head of departments, which lasted 3 months. All of this ended 2 days before my exam period, but it cumulated a lot of stress throughout the term. From this, I felt that I did not perform my best in my exams (and ended up with fairly poor marks which dropped my gpa quite a bit).</p>
<p>In the end I was found INNOCENT and it was the prof's mistake, but they notified me this after all the exams were over. </p>
<p>I'm not too sure if I should put this on my transfer update because it seems to look bad, but it also gives an explanation to why my gpa was so poor for last term.</p>
<p>Hmm, a that's a very difficult decision. Professors read tons of papers and can readily spot when the tone, subtleties, diction, syntax, etc. changes and a paragraph no longer seems like your work.
My English professor told me of a story of one Stanford girl who clearly committed plagiarism and it was obvious to anyone, so he confronted her about it but she just denied it, even to the face of the dean. They had to let her go scot free, since the prof needed to have evidence to back the claim.</p>
<p>I'm not sure about the admissions people, but if you say your story, it raised a flag as to the possibility that you did plagiarize, but the prof could not conclusively prove it (an archaic text on the basement of the library vs wikipedia).</p>
<p>I don't know, maybe it's worth saying something about it, but it'd be of utmost importance the way you word it, so I would talk to a transfer counselor or another English professor as to how to do that.</p>
<p>alansda> It was more like one of the guys in my class stole my work. My assignment was saved on a computer at school and he took it and submitted as his own work. In the end he admitted doing so and thats why I was found innocent (although its also my fault for not being careful with my work too).</p>
<p>As you said, it will probably only highlight the bad side so I decided to not put it on. Thanks again.</p>