Self-study
Hi all, I am currently losing sleep over this and was wondering if anybody had any insight or a similar situation and how it worked out for them
I am currently about to be a senior in college, looking to apply to law school this upcoming cycle.
My sophomore fall semester, I got an academic integrity violation for AI use. I know in retrospect (and at the time) it was completely stupid and foolish of me, not that this is an excuse in any way, shape, or form, but it was for a rough draft I completely forgot about and tried to scrap something together quickly. I don't want to sound like I am pitying myself or anything; I am well aware of my actions, and to this day, am disappointed in myself. I have grown so much academically and as a person since then, and this is never something that would happen again. I pled guilty to the charges, received a 0 on the assignment, and a warning with no further action. As far as I am aware, there is no note of this on my transcript, and this has only been a 1 time incident.
I am 99% sure I will have to report this on the C&F (although it is not on my official transcript) I do not like hiding things; the anxiety would eat me alive, as I said, I am losing sleep over my admissions now. I currently have a 3.28 (that semester wrecked my cumulative) and am actively studying for the LSAT (so no score to report) but I am obviously going to try to counteract my GPA a little with my LSAT, but since day 1 my GPA has already stressed me out about getting into any t100, I have a ton of extracurricular/clubs, work near full time while in college, and have held leadership in these clubs.
My overall question is really just asking if I have any shot at getting accepted anywhere with this on my record. It stresses me out daily and I am kind of pessimistic and suffer from diagnosed severe anxiety, so getting accepted anywhere eats me alive
@haena
hi thank you soooo so much for your response! i appreciate it more than you know, i def needed to hear the “im not done for but it does matter” i had also never seen that lsat demon post (even during my reddit/7 sage/google search deep dive at 3am lol) this response actually grounded me a lot.
i definitely have tried to be as involved as possible. i serve on my schools student legal services board (this was after the violation but they also don’t know about it), debate team, a philanthropic organization at my school, and have held leadership roles in my sorority. also i am doing a major related study abroad. like i said i also have worked near full time all of college and am a double major and have a minor. my gpa has also only been on an upward trend since the incident (2.7 that semester, didn’t fail the class with the violation but got a D+) and got a 4.0 this most recent (spring junior) semester.
and like you said obvi stranger to stranger but this really was just an awful lapse in judgment on my part and i feel like im paying the consequences forever now because of it, i want to go straight through but now im worried i have to change my life plan around this 1 stupid mistake i made over 2 years ago. i did really appreciate you reassuring me about the degrees of severity, i only received a 0 on the assignment, no official transcript mark, only the dean has record of it. you can clearly see in my gpa trend and involvement (which heavily started AFTER the violation) that im not some random bum that i’ve only gone up since then and i really hope admissions will see that.