<p>Hello all,
I need some advise for my current situation, I'm a senior in civil engineering with a 3.6 GPA and I'll be applying graduate school for fall 2015, however, I have been reported for using solution manual in one of my homework. As result, I DID NOT receive an XF or F for that class, instead, I am required to take a educational course "development and integrity" which will appear on my transcript.
How would this class appear to graduate program? Will this mark pull me in a huge disadvantage? Or like some others said they might just skipped it as an electives?
Besides, some program may ask in the application form if I have ever been dishonesty in college or something like that, should i say yes? And explain what happens and what I learned( I trully did) or I don't say anything?</p>
<p>Any comments would be appreciate!
Thanks in advance for any help</p>
<p>I’m not sure how graduate schools will view a “development and integrity” class, as I think that’s pretty uncommon and they might not even know what it is. As for the application form, you should be honest when asked about academic integrity. Especially since this class will be on your transcript, this is such an easy thing to check (and you don’t want to run the risk of something like - let’s say one of your recommenders addresses it in a letter and tries to explain it away as a minor thing that you’ve improved from, thinking he’s doing you a favor, but you’ve lied about it in your application).</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I think it’s kind of dumb to penalize you for using the solutions manual for homework AND especially to make you take a class for it. If professors don’t want you using the solution manual, they should assign the questions that aren’t in there! Or make up their own questions, or buy a bank of questions from the textbook maker. The whole point of the solutions manual is to help you work through the questions and learn if you get stuck, duh. (I used to teach stats, and making up your own questions is super easy - use the same problem, change a few numbers. Students can still use the solutions manual as a guide for the steps, but they have to figure out the answer on their own.)</p>
<p>Thanks juillet,
I am thinking the same that to be honest in my application, the things worries me is if someone has a bad record on that how would it affect the chance of admission </p>