<p>Hi does anyone how the common app plagiarism work? do they use turnitin? The thing is, i signed up using one account for early action, but my counsellor entered some information wrong and submitted. However for regular decision, I reregistered and told him to rewrite the school form. The only problem now is that i used the SAME ESSAY! IS that gonna be flagged as plagiarism since the essays will be from different accounts? or will the colleges know since the names on the essays are the same? THANKS in advance, I really appreciate it.</p>
<p>I think the safest thing to do is to write them, and CLEARLY explain the situation. I’m not sure they will give you the benefit of the doubt though, since plagiarism is an incredibly serious issue.</p>
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<p>How did you re-register and create a second account for the Common Application? According to their support center, the system will not allow duplicate accounts.</p>
<p>I just registered writecheck by turnitin, and scanned my essays. none of them were flagged. 0%. I don’t know if its not in the same database or my early action schools and common app haven’t started using them yet. Thanks for the reply though. And i reregistered using a different email and my other address.</p>
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<p>Well now they’re in the database…</p>
<p>By the way, I don’t know of any schools that use it. The time and effort to check on so many apps is not worth it. Plus every time a school checked an essay, it would be in the database and show up as plagiarism when the next school checked, so it wouldn’t work.</p>
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<p>Well now they’re in the database…</p>
<p>By the way, I don’t know of any schools that use it. The time and effort to check on so many apps is not worth it. Plus every time a school checked an essay, it would be in the database and show up as plagiarism when the next school checked, so it wouldn’t work. Plus sometimes kids reuse whole or parts of essays they previously wrote and loved for their common app, and the schools know that too. Then that would show up as plagiarism. Again, not effective. So it’s not used.</p>
<p>Don’t worry.</p>
<p>Sorry for the repost. Doing this from my phone.</p>
<p>Keveeno, I’m assuming you re-registered for another account with a different email address and physical address because you were aware that you cannot have more than one common application account. So, in addition to your concerns about plagiarism, I would also be concerned that you are ignoring and violating the rules for using the Common Application.</p>
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<p>yeah i guess its not plagiarism, since its my own work. Thanks! and yeah, it’s stupid how common app won’t let counsellors resubmit new materials for regular decision. they told me that the counsellor has to mail every school the form. Creating a new account is a bit wrong and risky, but it’s not like I’m applying to the same schools twice.</p>