Caught Cheating on Midterms. Will this affect admissions?

aquapt
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 06:53:57 +0000

Sure, @JollyoRanchero , feel free to send me a private message. Good essays can certainly help, within reason. (Stanford for an “unhooked” female Californian with your GPA? No essay is going to pull that off. But if you’re in range for admission at a given school, strong essays can make the difference.) Your situation is far from hopeless; you’ve had a setback, but you will have plenty of options and opportunities. It seems as if you panicked and did something that was out of character. (Because any habitual, premeditated cheater would have been more careful about reading the question!) The people at your school, who know you personally, decided to limit the consequences; I see no reason for strangers on the internet to judge you more harshly, especially when you were brave enough to put your situation out there and weather all of the criticism that followed. It’s far from the worst mistake a 17-18y/o ever made, and you can get past it.