Surveys say that 25 to 70 percent of all college students cheat according to William Shropshire's article "Of Being & Getting: Academic Honesty." The motivations behind why students cheat are the root of the problem of the dishonesty. Shropshire finds that the main reason students choose to cheat is they weigh out the benefits and see that it would help them to get ahead. Cheating has a low-risk factor and many students feel that cheating on one test will not matter and will give them the boost they need to get ahead. Students spend their entire lives trying to get into a good college. Once they get in, they spend their time trying to get into a good graduate school or get the bes

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