Caught Cheating on Midterms. Will this affect admissions?

Wilson98
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:28:28 +0000

You ask for advice on what to do going forward. My advice was to not send the letter because it would not be honest to place all the blame for a C- on outside factors and omit your own responsibility for it. People on this thread may have different opinions about how significant the initial cheating was, or how remorseful you seem, but I don’t remember anyone saying, “Yes, go ahead and send the letter.”

It may seem like such a letter will make all the difference, but really most or possibly all of your schools would have the same decision if you got a B- or a C- for one semester grade, and most or possibly all will have the same decision whether or not you send a letter. And even if it affected one college’s decision, your success in life is not based on one college’s decision.