Falsely accused of cheating. Please help

i_wanna_be_Brown
Tue, 25 Jun 2013 23:01:10 +0000

In terms of the future, what matters is if you are disciplined for academic dishonesty. If your accusal turns out to be unfounded you’ll be fine. If not, you will have to report it if your school does (and if for some reason they don’t - which is highly unlikely in AD - you’ll have to deal with the ethical situation of whether to lie or not on the question on the common app that asks if you’ve ever received an infraction) and some schools will probably auto reject. There are already plenty of applicants who aren’t cheating that don’t get in so why would a school reject them for someone who cheated? Not all adcoms at all schools will behave the same though.