Hacking

Applying to College
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<p>can colleges hack into another college's admissions site?</p>

<p>like what if two students had the exact same essay? </p>

<p>that would be interesting.</p>

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<p>Uh, okay?</p>

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<p>Why hack, when they can just ask?</p>

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<p>The UPenn adcom who visited my school said that they post all the essays on turnitin.com , which finds out if there is similar essay to the one being entered. I visited the site and found out , it is used in many countries.
Hacking, hehehehe lmfao</p>

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<p>yea sure, colleges have the ability to hack.....i think..... o_o</p>

<p>but i'm sure they have better ways to use their time</p>

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<p>But the question is: If an essay is submitted to turnitin.com does that essay become part of the database? The question is not about taking an essay from a 3rd party source, but sharing an original essay, ie asking your friend if you can use his Harvard essay for your Stanford application because he isn't applying to Stanford. Would tunitin.com "remember" the essay if Harvard submitted it to the website?</p>

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<p>Yeah, I think so. I'm not sure but They wouldn't just erase the essays every year..would they ?</p>

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<p>nope. it remains in the database forever.</p>

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<p>So, if an applicant has written 5 essays and sees that one of the essays can be re-used for more than one school... it will be flagged as non-original/plagiarized?</p>

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<p>What's the likelihood that an original work will correspond to another one randomly? I looked at turnitin.com and evidently they have billions of sources...kind of scary, what if randomly your essay was similar to another? Mine won't be, they're very unique, but what of somebody else whose essay might be?</p>

<p>Also, the person above me poses an interesting question..what if 2 different schools submit YOUR essay?</p>

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<p>i guess it would be under your name to both schools so it wouldn't matter. Colleges know we reuse essays which is why they pick similar/"free choice" topics.</p>

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<p>i guess it would be under your name to both schools so it wouldn't matter. Colleges know we reuse essays which is why they pick similar/"free choice" topics.</p>

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<p>Someone hacked into UCLA's. I got an email from identity alert</p>