Investigators identified 105 midshipmen who may have accessed unauthorized resources during the test despite efforts from the school's Physics Department to prevent cheating such as requiring midshipmen to submit their calculations from the test on a sheet of paper.

Cheating the system isn't only for the wealthy.

The decision to dismiss the charges comes following a monthslong investigation that initially resulted in a Geisel committee recommending that three students be expelled and several others received lesser sanctions.

A testing strategy that is cost-effective and less time-consuming may work in combating collusion.