<p>I’ve been reading around and also been wondering something. In college, if you’re caught cheating, then the punishment would be expulsion right? Yet it says most people admit to cheating when they are caught. Why would they admit to cheating if they were going to be expelled when admitting?</p>
<p>Well say you changed some of your answers on a test and asked for a regrade, right? The professor might catch it, say “There’s something that we need to talk about” and then he’s like “I have photocopies of each test right after it was graded and yours doesn’t match”, then what are you going to say?</p>
<p>Usually charges are brought up when there’s already heavy evidence present so it would just be delaying the impossible and also to maybe get a more lenient punishment: It doesn’t always end in an expulsion, sometimes you’ll be very lucky and get off with just a verbal scolding and a mark on your transcript that is a death sentence if you had ever planned on going on in your education beyond undergraduate college.</p>