What happens to a student who is accused of academic misconduct? Specifically in the UC system/University level

OK, at this point I guess I have no choice but to be fine with dropping out of school. I’m a film major and I don’t necessarily need a degree to do what I need to do for my career. A degree just makes it easier...I would like to stay in school if possible, but If it doesn’t work out for me, I’m lucky enough to still have a chance with my passion rather than my educational path, anyways

Me, along with a couple of other students in my class have been accused of academic misconduct regarding a final we took before spring break and I have no idea what to do because I’ve never been in this situation before. Apparently our finals look somewhat identical to each other.

Let me explain.

Weeks leading up to the final, our entire section talked to our TA and told our TA that we planned to take the final together because it made perfect sense to do that at the time. There are about 80 to 90 students in the film department at my school. literally all of us were frantic. A week before this final, I remember seeing students sleeping in their classrooms just so that they could edit their films on time. Some of those were my colleagues, so we just literally wanted to not die one last time and just take our final together seeming that everybody got the exact same lectures and it would be easier to not look at our notes if all of us were there to just take it together to begin with. Our TA was perfectly OK with this idea and even suggested us to do that. This one dude literally announced what time we would all meet and complete the final, and everything seemed ok at the time. On the day of the final, At 8 AM, we all meet at the Time we said we would and we completed the final. We waited to make sure everyone agreed with the answers and talked everything over before submitting. Only some students got the email and others didn’t. I was one of the students who got the email and so is my friend.

So.... what happens now? Am I still a student? I honestly feel like the UC system does not give a shit about stuff like this and will just kick you out— but I have no idea if that’s true. All I know is, I’m a fucking junior, so if I get kicked out right now then that will be literally $20,000 down the drain and I am a low income student so that sucks even more. I thought to ask this community what would happen just to throw it out there to see if anyone else has been through this, or anything like this.

Submitted March 27, 2019 at 10:23AM by talentedfilmstudent https://ift.tt/2UlPrf7