Cheat on Your Homework? In This Harvard Class, Just Say You’re Sorry

The paper, released in December, offered a comprehensive set of statistics on the policy’s use and wider effects for the first time. Hundreds of students enroll in Malan’s course — CS50 — each fall, and the number of students who invoke the regret clause annually peaked in 2015 at 26, or about 3 percent of that fall’s 750-person class. This past semester, just 8 of 781 students did so.