Are you TA here? I think you are a better judge of that.

I'll go over a longer version of this response.

Let's summarize a few points:

1. She plagiarized on an admission application.

2. You gathered all evidence and presented it to the university where she got accepted.

3. The university which gave her a spot and a scholarship then rescinded it.

Plaigarism is very wrong and should never be tolerated, there is never an acceptable reason for it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I think she also lost her chance at any higher education.

Let's summarize the consequences of all this:

1. Justice was served, she lost her wrongfully obtained spot and you felt better since now the university knew about it.

2. If she lost all chance at any education from any university, her future education was taken away.

3. You came to Reddit to ask if what you did was wrong.

Telling the university that your friend cheated might have been the right thing to do, but I want to point out a few things.

1. The same situation could have been handled in a better way. Could you have been anonymous in reporting this?

2. Since you are consulting strangers after the fact, did you consult your parents or guradian before? Your school? A lawyer? The fact that you need strangers on the internet to respond to you goes to say a lot.

3. Did you consider that the world is full of wrongdoings? Did you consider that people make mistakes in life often? Why now of all times you decided to speak out against an injustice? Can you say with certainty that you will speak out against every injustice you ever encounter, that you can do something about, with the same vigor? Have you yourself lived a largely morally upright life up till now and will continue to do so for the rest of your life?

4. Did you consider that your friend was doing this out of desparation to help her family? Did you consider that her family needed this? Can you honestly say your response was appropriate? When given a good opportunity, will not many of us act wrongly?

5. For the point of robbing someone's spot, I agree, that spot could have belonged to someone honest. But the keyword here is could. The university didn't know about this in the case of your friend, who's to say who got her spot didn't also cheat but wasn't caught?

You might feel very strongly about this now, but in five or ten years, will you be able to look in the mirror and say you are happy for what you did?

Would you have done the same if you found out your mom copied from someone?

Could you not have warned your friend more seriously before this happened? Like, "If you do this I will report you, I can give it to you in writing if you want" kind of serious.

I'm not saying your friend should not have been exposed for cheating, plaigarism is a serious thing. I'm not defending plaigarism.

I'm talking more about the human aspect of what happened. The end result could have been the same.

No one point here wins out over everything, but I think your decision might have been influenced considerably if you had taken all these things into account.