Paraphrazing

Whether it is right or wrong to Paraphraze an auther without giving credit to that person? It a case where someone is struggleing with idea of parphazing or cheating in order to get into there dream college, it would be in the students best intrests of courese not to do so. The way i look at it is that if its that imporant to you for you to get into your dream college then why put yourself at risk of loosing that dream by doing something as stupid as cheating. I mean i know when the pressures on and you really need that little something extra to boost your chances of getting what you want, its tempting to steal someone elses work, but that doesnt meake it right, its still cheating. Personally I think that just giving credit to the person how diserves it, is a whole lot easier.