impressivepumpkin5
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Hi all,
My main concern is an academic misconduct incident from Fall 2017. I won't be applying until 2022.
My boyfriend and I were in the same elective online class, and there was weekly assignments due at midnight where we basically summarized our lecture notes into a paragraph and submitted it. I went to class and then right to my shift at work, where I stayed until nearly midnight. When I got home, my boyfriend told me he'd taken my notes and typed them up into a paragraph for me to submit so I wouldn't submit the assignment late. Very stupidly, I agreed and submitted it. We later got an email from the Professor about suspected plagiarism. She asked for a written explanation and for us to meet her during office hours. My boyfriend emailed back and honestly told her what had happened. We met with her during office hours. She said she would consider it as if I hadn't done the assignment and give me a zero (fortunately, I still received an A in the class). She also took pity on us and said that since neither of us had any prior academic record and were truthful and remorseful, that she wouldn't take this any further.
I received no further communication from her on the matter, and no communication whatsoever from the Student Conduct Office. I checked my transcript- nothing. I requested my student misconduct record and there is no mention of this incident. Because I received 0 communication from Student Conduct Office, I am assuming that this means it was never on any record; not that it was removed or expunged. Is this an IA that needs to be disclosed on AMCAS? And if it "technically" isn't, I mean, this is some sort of gray area. Should I still put it on my app? I feel really badly about the whole thing. The incident, while isolated, does reflect my laziness at the time as a student, and I really really don't want nor intend to be dishonest about what kind of student I was.
Thank you in advance.
My main concern is an academic misconduct incident from Fall 2017. I won't be applying until 2022.
My boyfriend and I were in the same elective online class, and there was weekly assignments due at midnight where we basically summarized our lecture notes into a paragraph and submitted it. I went to class and then right to my shift at work, where I stayed until nearly midnight. When I got home, my boyfriend told me he'd taken my notes and typed them up into a paragraph for me to submit so I wouldn't submit the assignment late. Very stupidly, I agreed and submitted it. We later got an email from the Professor about suspected plagiarism. She asked for a written explanation and for us to meet her during office hours. My boyfriend emailed back and honestly told her what had happened. We met with her during office hours. She said she would consider it as if I hadn't done the assignment and give me a zero (fortunately, I still received an A in the class). She also took pity on us and said that since neither of us had any prior academic record and were truthful and remorseful, that she wouldn't take this any further.
I received no further communication from her on the matter, and no communication whatsoever from the Student Conduct Office. I checked my transcript- nothing. I requested my student misconduct record and there is no mention of this incident. Because I received 0 communication from Student Conduct Office, I am assuming that this means it was never on any record; not that it was removed or expunged. Is this an IA that needs to be disclosed on AMCAS? And if it "technically" isn't, I mean, this is some sort of gray area. Should I still put it on my app? I feel really badly about the whole thing. The incident, while isolated, does reflect my laziness at the time as a student, and I really really don't want nor intend to be dishonest about what kind of student I was.
Thank you in advance.
