Comment by ActorNightly

>besides being unethical to even consider cheating

Ethics in universities would only apply if admittance was fully merit based, or open to anyone with continued admittance being based on performance, with no monetary transaction involved.

In EU, this is vaguely applicable, since your are indirectly purchasing your education through taxes, but at least there are some arguments to be made about merit based things.

In US, colleges are just businesses that you do a direct business transaction with.

So in a business, you pay them for a certain product and/or service. They say to give you this product, you need to do certain things. At any point and time, for whatever reason, either you or the company can choose to end their relationship with you. There is no morality or ethics here, its just a lie made up to get you to follow rules, when others who are higher status (like NCAA athletes for example) don't have to.