I made a stupid, stupid mistake

hanaviolet
Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:40:14 +0000

To me it sounds like your school is trying to come down hard on cheating in order to put a stop to it, but it sounds like they are going overboard. If the counselor honestly explains exactly what happened, I don’t think a college will be bothered by it.

On the other hand, when there is a low ratio of staff (or admissions people) to applications, it might be an early way of filtering out applications at the beginning. But maybe that part of the process happened before your mid-year report was sent.

I don’t know if this would be comforting or not, but a school that would discount you for this might not be the school you really want to go to? It sounds like your record is generally very strong and you would be an asset to any school. Good luck - you don’t have too long to wait!