IA Advice
Hi everyone, I would like some feedback or advice please.
During Freshman year (2020-2021 Covid) I was caught using chegg during a physics exam. I posted a question, however I immediately felt sick to my stomach as it was a moment of desperation and closed the tab and did the problem by myself. I ended up getting the question wrong.
I was emailed the same day by student conduct office for suspicious activity. The professor reported me due to the order of answers to that particular question. As noted in my conduct record that I can view, there was no IP address or chegg account that proves it was me, however I confessed and explained the situation because I wanted to own up to my mistake. It’s also on the conduct record that I got the question wrong, I tried it myself, and confessed. I ended up getting an academic reprimand, a zero for the exam, however I still passed the class with a 2.0.
I decided to learn from my mistake and wanted to take some time off and waited to take the next two physics classes out of the 3 class series in person, which I ended up getting 4.0 for both classes. This event is on my conduct record for 7 years (it has only been 5 years. Should I apply this cycle? Also if I do and report it this cycle and later on once it’s expunged do I still have to report it with the new guidelines for future cycles?
Stats
School: Washington State University (URM)
• Degree: Neuroscience with Honors
• GPA: 3.71 | MCAT: 513
• Research: \~2,107 hrs | 2 publications (1 in Nature) | 3 poster presentations, including Society for Neuroscience
• Clinical: \~4,500 hrs total — CNA (208 hrs), Orthopedic Supervisor/MA (\~4,000 hrs, including \~200 hrs Peds MA)
• Volunteering: \~250 hrs — soup kitchen serving homeless individuals (200 hrs; personally meaningful — I experienced homelessness), hospital vaccine administration during COVID (50 hrs)
• Teaching: TA for advanced Neurobiology (30 hrs)
I appreciate the feedback!