Admissions Fraud

Applying to College
1

<p><a href="http://www.collegejournal.com/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegejournal.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Before mailing out acceptance and rejection letters over the past week, thousands of colleges and graduate schools conducted their usual reviews of test scores, transcripts, and essays. But less publicly, admissions officers focused on something else: police databases, plagiarism checks, and reports by private-investigators.</p>

<p>There's a new age of vigilance in academia. Spooked by incidents including guidance-counselor fraud in Los Angeles, blatant plagiarism at MIT and campus crime in North Carolina, colleges and graduate schools are shoring up their admissions process. In an era when applicants seek an edge with $500-an-hour "admissions consultants" and online essay-editing services, schools are using their own new methods to vet prospective students. Much like corporations that have been burned by CEO r</p>

2

<p>Ya, its pretty interesting, i read this article a few weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal and it's nothing new but its nice to see action being taken against it.</p>