MD & DO Need Help Retaking Academic Dishonesty Course

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hi so i am a sophomore premed major and I had been found of academic dishonesty unfortunately during one of my bio tests. I will receive a failing grade and a institutional action mark next to it but the institutional action mark can be removed if i go a year without any more academic dishonesty charges. If i retake the class and get an A will I be fine, at the moment I have A - B+ in all of my classes including stem classes. I dont know if this killed my chance for medical school or not.
 
if anyone has any advice at all please help me, I am beyond stress and feel like I just lost my whole career due to something silly.
 
Well, you kinda did... even if that IA won't remain on your official transcript, how do you plan to explain that F when you submit your application?
 
Why do you think if you retake and get an A “you’ll be fine”? Both grades will show and be calculated in your GPAs by AMCAS. You will probably have to report the IA when asked on your primary. I’m not sure but I think Academic Dishonesty is pretty bad. Just keep working hard. Find some activity
that will prove you’ve learned from this incident. Work on your other ECs and then see what happens in a few years. Putting time between the IA and your application can only help you out.
 
The IA will be removed after one year however I will still have to explain the F, the whole story is essentially the kid next to me had his phone out and I ended up looking down getting distracted by it periodically and I was caught under suspicion for having my phone out and they charged me with it anyway. I also have a 3.9 GPA currently and was on track to have all A's this semester but now i will recieve an F in one class. I dont know if I have a future anymore because of this.
 
The IA will be removed after one year however I will still have to explain the F, the whole story is essentially the kid next to me had his phone out and I ended up looking down getting distracted by it periodically and I was caught under suspicion for having my phone out and they charged me with it anyway. I also have a 3.9 GPA currently and was on track to have all A's this semester but now i will recieve an F in one class. I dont know if I have a future anymore because of this.
Do everything in your power to get this dropped. Maybe just failing the exam you are under suspicion for. If not get a lawyer.
 
Do everything in your power to get this dropped. Maybe just failing the exam you are under suspicion for. If not get a lawyer.
Woah there OP situation is not that serious. OP work hard in the remaining years of your academics. Keep your eyes on your own test and nothing else in the future. It's somewhat of a good thing that this incident occurred early in your academic career.
 
I believe academic dishonesty needs to be mentioned even when it doesn't appear on record- op needs to mention this since medical school can find out easily and it looks worse not mentioning it.
 
So did you have your phone out or not? Your story is not clear. From now on, don't take your phone into the exam room at all, right? Then you can't be accused of having it out.

The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have done everything possible under your school's procedures to make your position the best possible. That means you have an extra course, in which you need to get an A, in your school's policies and procedures regarding academic dishonesty, including whether there is the opportunity to appeal if you have a good enough case, and making sure whether or not those procedures have been properly applied to you. Is there an academic adviser or student organisation that can help? You can consult a lawyer without having them formally involved in any school procedures if there is a possibility of that hardening attitudes against you.

Your statement that the mark can be removed after a year of good conduct makes me wonder whether it is some kind of preliminary judgement rather than a final one? There may be some nuance there which could help you. For med school academic dishonesty is a very serious problem, but different schools may have different rules about what needs to be disclosed in which case what is on your record will be critical. Also, the more time between the incident and any application the better: if you can prove your good character with some years of seriously good work since the incident that can only help, so thinking about proving your abilities and character through a few years of an alternative career before applying to med school as a no-trad might be a good idea.

You do have a future still. It might be a good thing for you to talk to a welfare officer to help you deal with what is a difficult time.
 
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