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Admissions · Academic Dishonesty in Application
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Tuesday, Mar 22 2016

& thank you @ for the link. Going to watch out for the start date as I see it's still tentative.

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Tuesday, Mar 22 2016

Thank you @ & @.gill.sanford I am going to focus on the LSAT and write an addendum. I am definitely going to write one that accepts 100% responsibility and explains how I've grown from the incident as I said before.

What do you guys think, is about a page okay?

How much detail should I provide about the incident?

@ if you don't mind, how long was yours?

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Saturday, Mar 19 2016

@ I'm not sure if they will request it but it will definitely be dishonest and a Saul Goodmany thing to not disclose it.

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Friday, Mar 18 2016

@ There isn't any note of it in my transcripts. The note/record exists in the dean's office which can be seen if a dean's certificate is requested.

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Wednesday, Mar 16 2016

Thanks guys, I have emailed Spivey consulting!

Btw, any idea when the BR group commences for the September test?

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Wednesday, Mar 16 2016

Thanks Alejandro,

What companies or people do y'all think I should look into hiring?

Do you guys know of any that may specialize in cases like mine?

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Tuesday, Mar 15 2016

Yes you're right that I should not in any way downgrade my responsibility and the seriousness of it l, but I do think that plagiarism is a grey area. If one plagiarizes an entire paper from an online source or straight up buys a paper from an online source, that I think is a much more of an problem than having a few sentences verbatim with a study buddy you worked on an assignment with.

That's why I wanted to know how my particular case of plagiarism would effect my case but I guess that's almost impossible to know unless there are others that have plagiarized in similar ways or there are adcomms on here that have oversaw applications with similar misconducts.

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Tuesday, Mar 15 2016

Yeah for sure, just wanted to let y'all know how ridiculous it was. Usually they give warnings and maybe even could've fail me on that particular assignment. He just referred to the dean no questions asked. It was also my first class as a transfer btw.

I don't know it's just that I'm getting mixed responses. Some say it is nothing and can even be used to better sale yourself with the addendum space. Some say that it's a deal breaker. But I do appreciate y'all and what you think about me looking into hiring a consultant solely for this reason?

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Hi everyone,

During my junior year I was caught for plagiarizing. What had happened was that I had copied a few sentences verbatim from a friends study guide that we both put into an assignment. Our professor followed his "policy" (1st yr as a prof btw) and referred both of us to the dean. I took responsibility and was put to deferred suspension. Ultimately I received a B- in the course. Now I'm graduating in June and am applying this year but am losing a lot of sleep over this as the days come closer.

How do you guys think it will affect my chances to schools that I would likely get into with my GPA/LSAT?

Is there something I should do now to better my chances?

I plan on writing a addendum accepting responsibility and showing how I've grown from the incident.

Thank you all your responses will be greatly appreciated.

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