Will Frosh Honor Code Violation Impact Admission Chances?

Sally_Rubenstone
Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:32:46 +0000

Nick,

zephyr15 is right. Take the most challenging courses you can handle, but if you are stressing yourself too much, don’t push … and don’t sweat the occasional bad grade. There are lots of well respected colleges out there that will welcome a student like you.

Even though your question is off-topic for this Honor Code-violation thread, there is actually a connection. I hear from students all the time who have put themselves under such pressure to get perfect grades (or their parents have put them there) that they eventually resort to dishonesty … which, of course, is way worse than the occasional D or even F.