I made a stupid, stupid mistake

JohnnyKster
Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:45:57 +0000

OK. So. I got caught cheating at school. It wasn’t very serious. (Well actually, all forms of cheating are serious but yeah). And basically I turned in my friend’s worksheet. I was working on it with him and we were checking over the answers during lunchtime (we had same answers since we worked on it together as our teacher encouraged us to). Well it was time to turn it in and my friend noticed it was in pencil when teacher wanted it in pen. My friend, who had the class in a later period, just told me to take his and turn it in. And I (being completely stupid and making a rash decision) did. I’d been totally out of my mind that week because I’d been seriously sick and was still fazed. Anyways, my teacher noticed and wrote me up. My counselor understood apparently but still had to talk about it in the midyear report. But she basically agreed to write a detailed letter talking about how I knew it was wrong and how I learned my lessons. I also really convinced my counselor not to do anything to my friend since that’d really be unfair for him and that punishment should stick to me. I also faxed in a letter explaining what had happened and what I had learned.

As decisions date gets closer I’m seriously worried. My counselor said that colleges would either not care about things of this level or that it wouldn’t be very damaging (it wouldn’t kill my chances). I’ve 3.8 uw gpa, hardest courseload all four years, 1000 community service hours, really good ec’s, won national/international award, and published stuff in professional fields. I think my recommendations were also really good. How serious is this???