<p>OP - you are not being consistent - which leads me to wonder about the truth of your responses. If your brother fabricated the post about the acceptance to UMD - how do you explain this:</p>
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<p>Why would you write that your father was bragging about your acceptances - including to UMD - if you had withdrawn your application?</p>
<p>So - did you withdraw your acceptance to UMD prior to receiving a decision? Or did you leave it in play - in violation of ED rules? Why would your father mention an acceptance to the honors program at UMD unless you had one?</p>
<p>Again - not true. Your public profile shows the account was created on August 13, 2010 - not 2012. I’m going to leave it at that. I think you need to give some thought to issues of honesty and ethical behavior before you head off to college.</p>
<p>rockville, the first post on the account is 1/31/12. The brother could have created the account in 2010 and made first post on 1/31/12. I don’t see a discrepancy.</p>
Why didn’t you then create your own account? Sounds like he supposedly created his account. Sorry, I’m not buying it. I think that first post in the UMD thread does have your correct stats. </p>
<p>Since you’re in NJ, is daddy going to rush into NYC to confront Columbia whenever he thinks you’re treated unfairly? He needs to get the chip off his shoulder, btw.</p>
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Sounds like you would have changed your answers if they weren’t correct.</p>
<p>Hey guys, I don’t think columbia would even CARE if she didn’t withdraw her other apps. (though I hope she did). She’s a first generation, URM with amazing STATS!</p>
<p>They are not going to reject her, now, nor should they.</p>
<p>I don’t believe OP is telling the truth about his college process, hence I am dubious about his account of this cheating incidence. His teacher probably smelled it too, but decided it wasn’t worth his while to pursue it. Good luck with Columbia. The teacher is correct that college won’t be as forgiving .</p>
<p>I don’t believe he’s telling the truth, either. And now that he’s (apparently/probably) been sniffed-out, he hasn’t returned to CC since his last post.</p>
<p>The ED contract requires that the student attend the school if admitted. OP applied ED to Columbia, was accepted, and plans to attend. Contract fulfilled. </p>
<p>The ED contract also requires student to withdraw other pending applications, but the reason for that requirement is that the ED-granting college does not want students continuing to shop around for better offers. In other words, the Columbia ad com doesn’t want to be losing ED-admitted student to Harvard or MIT in April because the students kept their apps alive, despite ED. They also don’t want student doing financial aid shopping down the line.</p>
<p>The ED colleges are also a LOT more worried about students applying to competing private colleges. </p>
<p>The OP did NOT do those things. He may have neglected to withdraw an app, as a I am sure that dozens of ED-accepted students probably forget to do. But he did not breach his ED contract. </p>
<p>I also do not know whether the OP was applying for financial aid. If so, then he was not obligated to accept at Columbia (or notify other colleges) until Columbia gave him a firm commitment on a financial aid award. We know that Columbia offers generous need-based aid, but we don’t know when the OP was given his award, which could have been delayed if the Columbia financial aid department had any questions or were waiting for more information about the OP’s parents finances. The fact that OP is first generation college makes it rather likely that he also may be eligible for need-based aid. If not, then I definitely feel his parents deserve to be commended for their remarkable economic achievements, accomplished without the benefit of a higher education.</p>
<p>The ED contract said a student needs to withdraw other applications once he/she accepted a spot, I believe that was the first week of Jan, and U Maryland decision came out end of Jan. Whether the OP forgot or not, he/she still violated the ED contract.</p>
<p>To the original poster: looking at the online exam between the two days of the in-school exam was not an ethical thing to do. You understand that, right? I am not being critical here, just want to make sure.</p>
<p>You are lucky that you did not find an error because it seems to me that it is very possible you would have changed the answer if you had, at least the wording of the answer. If you had done that, there would be no question that you had cheated.</p>
<p>Since you did actually look, I can see that the teacher has no choice but to have you retake.</p>
<p>It is very mature of you to see that it is good fortune to have this happen before, not during, college.</p>
<p>I am not clear on what is considered cheating on a 2-day test. Not even in this particular case, but in general. Is it unethical/cheating to study from a readily available test/answers (either online or in an AP test book) once a student recognizes that the teacher took some or all of the questions from that book/test? What if the student had previously studied from that test and now is looking at the same test in the classroom (given in only one day)? Should the student have told the teacher that he had the test that the teacher was using? Should the teacher have been responsible for making sure the exact same test is not available to students?</p>
<p>It does not make sense to me that a teacher would give a test in two parts and give the students the chance to re-do answers from the first day’s test on the second day. If the teacher did that and allowed students to go back and change their answers on the first part, is it cheating to remember a question and go home and check? Or to simply study more and recognize an error on the first day’s questions and revise? Is it the memorizing of the answer that makes it cheating?</p>
<p>If the student did not actually change any answers, even if he thought about doing so, does that constitute cheating?</p>
<p>If the teacher gave them back the whole test for some reason, but said they could NOT study any more or change the answers from day one and a student went back and did so, that would be cheating. Otherwise, it seems to be a flaw in the test design that allowed students to go home, study some more knowing the questions, and then change their answers.</p>