<p>1) You attend an Ivy League school and graduated some time in the past. I’m guessing that school had an honor code
2) You told someone years later who was also bound by the honor code
3) They reported you as required by the honor code
4) The school revoked your degree. </p>
<p>What I’m not understanding is </p>
<p>1) What you want out of further education? Just a degree?
2) Why you quit your job. </p>
<p>I think that you can move beyond this in life, I just don’t understand what you expect to accomplish by getting another degree. </p>
<p>For any job that requires a background check, you’re going to have to explain this, so what’s the difference whether you actually have a college degree or not. </p>
<p>Practically speaking, what you need to do is
Find a college that offers 2nd bachelor’s degrees (some really do).
Get accepted to that college even after your degree revocation
Find a way to pay for it with no job</p>
<p>Do the following google search
site:*.edu second bachelors degree</p>
<p>Once you find an appropriate school, you should talk to an admissions officer about what you have in mind. You might find a school that will let you in. No point in applying without having the conversation.</p>
<p>^^^ if OP is in fact the same student then – man, she/he’s SLOW. How many times can people say “set up a meeting with an admissions counselor” ? How else can you say it before it sinks in?</p>
<p>I’ve been suspicious of several long “I’m in a crisis, help me” posts that were followed by an outpouring of advice and support. In these, the OP rarely replies to the parent comments. This particular thread may not be a ■■■■■, but I suspect we are not getting the whole story. Does everyone think the many foreign nationals who attend Ivy league schools are all perfectly fluent by the time they graduate? They do just what this OP has admitted, solicit extensive editing help on their written projects. The fact that people are doubtful that an “IVY” graduate can make grammatical mistakes is amusing.</p>
<p>Claiming to have graduated an “ivy” seems like baiting the generous parents on this forum who may seem (to a HS student who has felt the pressure of ivy-hopes) to have much invested in helping their kids and other students succeed at highly selective type schools. Rushing to a troubled student’s aid is the particular kindness afforded by so many parents who post, so it may be tempting for trolls to play on sympathies and think that an invented ivy student in trouble would get more play.</p>
<p>Sometimes I suspect a ■■■■■ post, but think the issue raised is one that may honestly help others in similar situations. Advice and comments can be part of a thread that is meaningful to someone–if not the prankish HSer who starts it off. But in this case… no. I would not think so.</p>
<p>Many colleges would be happy to accept you as a student. The problem that may arise is the minimum number of credits they require to be taken from their institution before you can get a degree from their institution.</p>
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<p>FYI - for people questioning how this process might work: UVa has withdrawn the degrees of students who have graduated if they were convicted of cheating for an offense while they were a student. One offense can get you permanently expelled, with no ability for re-admittance.</p>
<p>A college or university does not have to meet the standard of “guilt beyond a reasonable doubt” to take disciplinary action against a prospective, current or former student if there is preponderance of evidence that the student committed an egregious act of academic dishonesty while an applicant or student with no statute of limitations. If the school does not become aware of the offense untill after the student has graduated and and can not be suspended or expelled they really only have two alternatives; allow the behavior to go unpunished or revoke the diploma.</p>
<p>Just for the record, I have heard of cases like yours before. A lot of people become overcome by the stress of college life and exams and make a mistake by cheating, particularly on take home exams. I go to Brown, and I have seen it happen. I wish you the best of luck. I feel like you could probably get into a private institution if you explained the situation. being overcome by stress is not that uncommon and any counselor will have heard of it before.</p>
<p>To everyone who said this is fake: If you believe that, that is clearly your right. I am just not sure why you take the time to respond to a post saying that. If it a fake, good for you figuring it out. If it is not, you are wasting your time and theirs when they are on here looking for help.</p>
<p>And would the word of one person years down the line be considered “preponderance of evidence” sufficient to cause a university to revoke a diploma? If I knew you years ago in college, I could write them years later and say you had told me you cheated on an exam, and they would revoke your diploma?</p>
<p>Agreed, that certainly is not ‘preponderance of evidence’ and all it is going to do is invite a lawsuit and bad PR for the university which is the last thing that they want. Count me in the skeptical category.</p>
<p>I sometimes think that a kid who posts a question like this has cheated and not been caught, or is thinking about cheating, and is looking for people to tell him that it’s not that big a deal, that it won’t wreck his life forever, etc.</p>