Caught Cheating on Midterms. Will this affect admissions?

Wilson98
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:40:17 +0000

One more thing (and this is probably, as someone said, piling on): Imagine you’re an admissions officer. You have an applicant with an uncharacteristic C- and a letter saying it was caused by some family issues. You email the student’s guidance counselor to say that there was no mention in the midyear report about any issues, and you want to know how serious the situation is in order to fairly evaluate the applicant. The guidance counselor says, yes, there are some issues, but the main reason for the C- was cheating on a midterm. How do you feel about the applicant now–and not so much the cheating, but the sending of the letter to avoid any consequences of it?

To put it another way, if you feel bad about doing something, it’s probably a bad thing to do.