pyrito
Dec 17, 2016
Undergraduate / Taking Down the School Website - Caltech Supplemental Essay - Ethics and Honor System [6]
@Holt
Thank you so much for your response. I thought the same thing as well just last night. I wrote this draft a couple weeks ago and only last night did I realize that all Caltech was looking for in this essay was a secure standing in following the honor code. I decided to write this draft instead. Yes it is cliche but I think it gets the job done. And you're right, although I did take the school website down by accident (seriously was), I was given small consequences and it would almost sound sarcastic if I tried to talk about the guilt I faced (because there wasn't really much). I decided to rewrite it to this please tell me what you think:
Our IB Chemistry class was notorious in my school for its brutality in tests, labs, internal assessments, and exams. By the end of the first semester of my junior year, I was sitting with an 87 in the class, for what would be my first "B" on my transcript ever. It didn't bother me too much, but I decided to work hard to at least make sure I understood concepts.
While I began to study for the exam weeks in advance, many of my friends had found the test bank to the questions and began to inform the rest of the class, including me, about the "treasure" they'd found online.
"I'll send you the link to the questions", one of my friends said.
"No, I don't want them", I responded. My grade was important to some degree, but I knew that learning the content was far more important in helping me gain both my IB diploma and a secure standing of the core concepts.
"Fine, your loss", he said.
Come test day, and I had breezed through the exam without much difficulty, receiving a high score to improve my average. The others? Not so well. It seemed that our teacher had changed up the questions!
I guess it wasn't my loss.
@Holt
Thank you so much for your response. I thought the same thing as well just last night. I wrote this draft a couple weeks ago and only last night did I realize that all Caltech was looking for in this essay was a secure standing in following the honor code. I decided to write this draft instead. Yes it is cliche but I think it gets the job done. And you're right, although I did take the school website down by accident (seriously was), I was given small consequences and it would almost sound sarcastic if I tried to talk about the guilt I faced (because there wasn't really much). I decided to rewrite it to this please tell me what you think:
Our IB Chemistry class was notorious in my school for its brutality in tests, labs, internal assessments, and exams. By the end of the first semester of my junior year, I was sitting with an 87 in the class, for what would be my first "B" on my transcript ever. It didn't bother me too much, but I decided to work hard to at least make sure I understood concepts.
While I began to study for the exam weeks in advance, many of my friends had found the test bank to the questions and began to inform the rest of the class, including me, about the "treasure" they'd found online.
"I'll send you the link to the questions", one of my friends said.
"No, I don't want them", I responded. My grade was important to some degree, but I knew that learning the content was far more important in helping me gain both my IB diploma and a secure standing of the core concepts.
"Fine, your loss", he said.
Come test day, and I had breezed through the exam without much difficulty, receiving a high score to improve my average. The others? Not so well. It seemed that our teacher had changed up the questions!
I guess it wasn't my loss.
