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My best friend cheated, so I got her kicked out of her dream school. Look, I'm not about a cheater. Those are some big actions being taken. There's some big actions. You know what I mean? But maybe he's a big cheat. Oh, goodness. Maybe you cheating on a big booty. I 19 female am a sophomore in college and have a friend Tia 18 female who is in high school and applying for colleges and scholarships. I helped her throughout the college process and she ended up getting

an early action to her top college and she got a full scholarship. I mean, that's pretty great.

I was happy for her until recently. I was talking to a mutual friend of ours and she started

gushing about how Tia's essay was so heartfelt and beautiful.

I asked to see it because I thought she had forgotten to show me.

She just showed me many of her essay draft.

But as I was reading it, I was completely taken aback.

The essay was one of my college essay drafts, which I'd shown Tia for reference on writing techniques only.

And I made this clear. Wow. So Tia plagiarizes this entire essay. Even when there's chat GPT, come on now. I know, I know. If you're going to use someone's work, use AI's work. I was a livid. The essay was really personal and she barely even tweaked it up. It was almost entirely copied and pasted. I trusted her with it.

And this is what she did. 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. I don't know if I would go that far. I wonder what O.P. got into? That's like a good question. Like, did O.P. get into like the same or a better situation? Put in the comments what you would do or if this is too much. Now people are calling me dramatic and shaming me for robbing her of her education. 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. I mean, what did you expect the outcome to be? 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, am I the A-hole?

I guess it's not that tough, but...

Let us know in the comments what you think.

Put your answers in before you hear our take.

John, what are your thoughts?

Well, first of all, first of all, you know, regardless of whether, let's reserve the, whether O.O.P. is the A hole or not. Would you do this yourself?

No, absolutely not. I don't think I would go, because also, I mean, I guess if we're applying to the same school, I wouldn't, but if someone, like, wanted to like, if I had like a true homie that was like, yo, I feel like I would give it to them, honestly. Oh, yeah. I mean,

like if it was at the cost of me getting into the school, then I would have been like probably

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