I plagiarized a little on my essay.

College Essays
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<p>Hey CC, I have a confession. I plagiarized a little from an essay on a college forum. It fit so well with my topic that I had to take a few lines. I reworded some of the lines, but I left some of the lines the way they were. Will this affect me and will colleges find out?
Also, my essay was 620 words, but I could guarantee that my college essay is pretty strong.</p>

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<p>Hopefully</p>

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<p>If a school detects the plagiarism, you will be rejected. Would they notify common app and hence all the other schools you are applying to? Maybe. Some schools contract with outside companies to track plagiarism, so there is a real possibility you could be caught. If you have other schools to submit to, you’d better make a new Common App with totally new essay. When you don’t cheat, you don’t have to worry about getting caught.</p>

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<p>If you plagiarized from an online college forum, then it would be very easy to stick your essay into a search engine or some other web site feature and search for it. Especially if you left whole sentences exactly as-is.</p>

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<p>I actually copied and pasted each sentence into google/search engines. NONE of it came up. Also, if I only copied a few sentences, how is that going to get detected? I don’t understand.</p>

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<p>Do you guys know any websites that give a plagiarism check? I’ll let you know if it was plagiarized or not.</p>

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<p>Will you get caught if you just plagiarized a sentence or two? Probably not. Can you get caught and has it happened before? Of course.</p>

<p>It is like the lottery. Decide for yourself whether you want to play it or not. I certainly wouldn’t. And you shouldn’t expect people suggesting it.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it’s not plagiarized for sure. I just did 3 plagiarism test on a couple of good “turnitin” type of websites. 0 Plagiarism found.</p>

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<p>definitely not a risk I would take.</p>

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<p>I’m guessing the tools and methods used by services hired by Harvard, for example, are more sophisticated than what you have. Better hope nothing looks fishy or they don’t do a spot check on yours. Assuming they don’t just check all the essays of students they are ready to accept.</p>

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<p>Regardless of whether it would be found out, it’s still a dick move. Come up with something like it on your own, you give transfers a bad name.</p>

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<p>You should have just written it yourself. There is no guarantee that what you plagiarized is what they are looking for. So you run the risk of getting caught for plagiarism as well as that they may not like it and may have liked your own thoughts better. And if you do get in, there is always a chance that it could be detected and come and bite you down the road. Was it really worth it to have to worry about it for four years if you get in?</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure i’ll be fine. I just ran my essay through a lot of plagiarism sites, such as turnitin and advanced plagiarism search. It has 0% plagiarism, so I should be fine :slight_smile:
Thank you anyways.</p>

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<p>WOW.</p>

<p>tsenchar</p>

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<p>^My sentiments exactly</p>

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<p>Why did you even take the risk in the first place? Have you submitted the essay yet? If yes, best of luck to you. If no, then change it</p>

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<p>this is why you dont post your essay online…</p>

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<p>Wow. Do you feel any guilt or remorse whatsoever? How do you expect to succeed in college when you can’t even write a short essay to be accepted?</p>

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<p>…wow, you’re cool. I’m sorry but I hope college do find out about it.</p>

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<p>Plagiarism is fine in small doses. You’ll be fine op.</p>

<p>Jk. You should do a follow up of this thread in college when you plagiarize on a research paper and the professor finds out.</p>