Woman Causes Friend To Lose Scholarship After Snitching On Plagiarised Essay

Getting into college can be quite the achievement. The entry process can be gruelling and highly competitive.

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This is why when OP’s friend got into their dream college with a full scholarship, they were nothing but proud.

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That was until they realised that their friend had copied their essay word for word. In a post on Reddit’s r/AITA, they said, 

“The essay was one of MY college essay drafts which I’d shown to Tia for reference on writing TECHNIQUES ONLY. I made this clear.”

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What made them even madder was the fact that it had not even been changed a little.

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This is when OP decided to go nuclear and contact the university itself, “In a fit of rage, I gathered all the evidence of me helping her with the college process, including evidence of me sending the specific essay to her, and I showed it to the school. She not only lost her scholarship, but she also lost her seat in the school.”

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This is when the people around her turned on her as well. “Now, people are calling me dramatic and shaming me for robbing her of her education.”

She added, “She’s the only person in her family to get into college and receive an academic and athletic scholarship, so everyone was rooting for her, including me at one time. And while I didn’t expect the outcome to be so severe, it was.”

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OP said they felt terrible about how things turned out but also that they didn’t like being taken advantage of. “Right now, I feel bad. I feel terrible. I feel like she took advantage of me, but I didn’t want to be the cause of something so horrible. I did myself a justice, but at the cost of someone’s dreams. Now I’m wondering if what I did was justified or not.”

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People in the comments agreed with her saying, "I'm probably going to get downvoted, but you're NTA. If she is plagiarizing just to get in, she is definitely not going to survive her first semester in college. Most colleges has a no nonsense policy with stealing other's works. I have seen a lot of my peers who just forgotten to cite their source properly for their quotes, and get in trouble with the school. So yeah, NTA."

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Another added, "Yikes, this may not end up being popular, but NTA. If Tia really copied your story, than that would be plagiarism and is a dishonest way of getting into college. It sucks she lost her acceptance and full ride, but she didn't really earn it in the first place if she cheated to get in."

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