<p>Also, it is not totally wise to “borrow heavily” from the released essays online because those essays are given scores based on the opinions of separate readers, so your U.S teacher may not have the same opinions of those readers.</p>
<p>As for what happens, I think you deserve a retake. You were definitely within your right of researching old APUSH prompts online and reading the scoring guidelines and sample essays for those prompts, but you were in the wrong for “borrowing heavily” from one of those essays. I think you at least deserve a retake, but probably not a 0.</p>