The Committee will listen to your story, ask you questions, and then ask you to leave while they discuss your case. If they recommend suspension, you can kiss your financial aid good-bye, as well as your University housing, participation in Intercollegiate Athletics, and anything else attached to your student status. If your parents help to pay for school, they will not be happy. Some Alternatives You can avoid feeling pressured into cheating. The biggest problem students face is learning to manage their time.
Most students are honest and only resort to cheating when they get desperate.
If they run out of time, fall behind, or walk into an exam unprepared, cheating suddenly seems to be the way out. Take advantage of the CLAS workshops here on campus which can help you with study skills or get some CLAS tutoring if you need it. You can also drop a class if you find you are in over your head. Or you can always ask a professor for an extension. Someone who gets a grade without earning it jeopardizes the fairness of the grading system and devalues the integrity of the academic community.