So my friend has been academically dismissed from law school due to an unfortunate mishap during the exam. She had an extra outline that she was not allowed to have apparently, and is facing an honor code violation. She was on academic probation the semester before, and with the suspect honor code violation the teacher decided to fail her, instead of hearing the outcome of the investigation. (which is totally his discretion anyways, but still). We go to a Tier 2/Tier 3 school. You need a 2.0 cumulative GPA (at least) your first year to be in good academic standing. She also got a D in another class due to her (Softest/ExamSoft) freezing and deleting an essay on her final. She hand wrote the rest of the final and the teacher had the discretion to admit portions, assign partial credit, disregard whatever he liked, etc. So now her GPA is a 1.4. Basically I am asking what should she do? Should she wait a year to petition the school and try to come back if her GPA will reset? Would her financial aid and in-state tuition still be available after an academic dismissal? Will she be in debt forever and not even bother with law school? Any advice will be super helpful.
