Hello all! I am looking to get advice from more senior posters/adcom members about an IA.
Here's my situation:
My freshman year, I received a warning letter from my office of student conduct for "over-collaboration" on a computer science homework assignment (not intentionally cheating, copying, etc but a friend and I had discussed the problem and ended up with similar answers to a homework question). There is no official record of this incident at my university-- it does not appear on my transcript or in my academic file, and if asked about my discipline record my school would report that I have none. There is a record in my university's office of student conduct, but they said they do not report infractions this minor outside of the office.
A couple questions:
1) This still counts as an IA, correct? I'm leaning towards reporting it in the spirit of full honesty at the advice of my pre-med advisor, but I want to make sure that I'm not reporting it unnecessarily. It's a bit odd, because if a school requests a letter from my university they will just state that I have no discipline record.
2) How badly will this affect my application? I otherwise have a decently competitive application but would like to know if I will need to apply more broadly because of this situation. By the time I apply it will have been 4+ years since the incident