Another academic misconduct dilemma...
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To be safe and accurate, it's best to direct this question to your school. My guess, however, would be that it won't show up.
If it turns out that it's not on your record, then I would keep this information to yourself. You were in high school, and we all make mistakes; I wouldn't worry about it.
i would make an anonymous call because schools could bar you knowing that you plagarized....or i would call the professor and ask him if he/she did any academic warning or something on your transcript
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It sounds like you didn't go before any academic judiciary so I'd say you're in the clear with that. It'd be up to you to decide how you want to explain the failing grade though.
Try having the school send an official transcript to your house, and see if theres anything on it that indicates the academic dishonesty.
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I know you're young, and learned a lesson, but just a note ... doing things like copying an essay with how easy it is to scan all sources in the world plus you peer's paper, is just foolish. Honestly, you just can't get away with it. I'm not trying to lecture you ... but yeah, now that it's out of the way ... you may be okay. Call the school, try to get an official transcript etc.
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this is terrible...but man, OP, I'm getting a kick out of how you not only brazenly copied stuff off the internet, but then had the audacity/stupidity/whatever you will call it to then submit the paper to an anti-plagiarism website! 
but it sounds like you had no official sanctions against you, just a big stinking F on your transcript. frankly, I would avoid mentioning anything that won't show up on any records because you don't want to give any school a reason as solid as plagiarism to reject you.
(not that I'm condoning cheating by any means, but I figure we were all idiot high school students at some point in our lives...)
but it sounds like you had no official sanctions against you, just a big stinking F on your transcript. frankly, I would avoid mentioning anything that won't show up on any records because you don't want to give any school a reason as solid as plagiarism to reject you.
(not that I'm condoning cheating by any means, but I figure we were all idiot high school students at some point in our lives...)
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yeah...that was dumb of me to do. However that was 5 years ago and now I can say I was too scared to cheat in college. I figured it would be best to not try to blame the teacher for my mistake on an forum like many of the other threads I looked at.
Thanks for the advice I will ask the school for a transcript pronto.
Thanks for the advice I will ask the school for a transcript pronto.
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Don't use that line on adcoms. Use keywords like 'integrity' 'honesty' etc.
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Frankly, there were a surprising # of people I knew who enrolled in college classes in HS and didn't do so hot in the classes. If no plagiarism charges are on record and your performance in college classes has been good, I wouldn't really bring it up unless you get asked about it at your interviews. Then, I'd just chalk up the F to being an unfocused HS student who didn't know how challenging college classes would be.
And BTW, I certainly wouldn't go back and talk to the prof as somebody else suggested. You don't want that guy to go back and somehow flag the plagiarism on your transcript if that hasn't happened already.
OP, sounds like you have an F and nothing more. The prof decided to give you tough love instead of throwing the book at you, and you should be forever grateful, since this would have been ugly on your academic record. You won't find anything on that transcript, and you won't mention this to any adcom ever. Ever. 
Agreed that if they ask about the F in an interview, you talk about anything else. Anything.
Agreed that if they ask about the F in an interview, you talk about anything else. Anything.
