<p>A friend of mine asked to read my personal statement for help on hers...now i think she used it and sent it to schools!!! were not applying to the same schools... but will colleges be able to tell?</p>
<p>If your personal statement says so little that is unique to you that someone could steal it, maybe you need to rethink it anyway. There's really nothing you can do except to be more careful who you show your essays to.</p>
<p>Beat the crap out of him</p>
<p>well is there some sort of plagarize machine they send essays through that compare them with schools in different states?</p>
<p>report them to the colleges they're applying to. tell others. spread the word. find a witness or some form of proof that will show you came up with your personal statement first.</p>
<p>move on, look at is maybe the statement was not as unique to you as it should be. It is an opportunity to come up with something more fitting to you. And tell the friend you are disappointed.</p>
<p>In the end, I guess it was not really your friend. Unfortunately, people learn these sorts of lessons the heard way. Rethink that so you don't misinterpret someone elses actions as being you friend. As for what to do other than learn from it, is hmom's comment that if the person can use it, perhap you needed another one anyway.</p>
<p>Yeah i dont consider them my friend anymore and i dont care if they get in to their colleges the only problem is..i already sent it to 2 of my first choice schools i dont want to say anything unless its going to affect me</p>
<p>To the best of my knowledge schools don't run personal statements through "plagiarize machines". There are software programs that can be used to detect plagiarism but I work for a company that specializes in helping students with their personal statements and I've never heard of them being used at the admissions level. If you were applying to the same schools as your friend or if you downloaded a generic personal statement offline you'd be more likely to get caught.</p>
<p>Still, I agree with hmom5. The idea behind a personal statement is to help you stand out from the crowd and if yours can be cut and pasted onto someone else's application you may want to rethink your approach.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Thats a b!t(#. Seems like you have good friends</p>
<p>Send a supplemental updated personal statement to each school to which your friend applied noting your most recent felony conviction.</p>
<p>Write a new personal statement about how your "friend" stole your previous one. If life gives you lemons, make a lemonade. Move on.</p>
<p>^LOL</p>
<p>Nice idea. And you can send it to the schools your "friend" applied to and make sure she doesn't get in.</p>
<p>I agree with hmom5. I think a good personal statement should reflect/supplement/be evidenced by the other information you have submitted, such as your ECs, grades, honors and achievements etc. If you friend could used it wholesale without major amendments, then either she's an exact copy of you in academic and EC terms, or your personal statement could be improved.</p>
<p>beat the ****ing crap out of your friend and report her to your counselor or her parents.</p>
<p>writing about ur friend stealing ur personal statement is actually a great idea...just make sure u dont put spite into it. rather, show maturity about how ur moving on and whatnot. putting stuff like "god i hope he gets rejected" would just show your immaturity and desire for vengeance, both big negatives.</p>
<p>It's too bad you didn't copyright it. lol</p>
<p>If this friend was so dishonest to steal the personal statement, it must be a pretty good one and I bet they will have no qualms about whether the content is true about them-which it wouldn't be.
I would definitely let your school guidance counselor know of this, and if they have access to that student's personal statement and you can prove its really yours, i think it is up to your high school to contact that student's schools about the plagiarism. That will be the only way to adversely impact the thief and you will not need to take this matter into your own hands.
I would hope your school has some kind of honor system (my D's private school does) and if one of her classmates was caught doing this it would definitely be reported and the student would stand a good chance of being expelled.
I' sorry this happened to you, but try to look at it as a good learning experience for later in life. Don't trust anyone with your ideas,projects,etc.</p>
<p>That's really bad, but how are you going to prove that they stole your idea in the first place? I really doubt your "friend" would admit that he/she stole it anyways. I agree with the write a statement about how your friend stole your statement it seems much more mature and it'll probably be pretty unique.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>About proving it, you can look at the word document where it originated. If you look under properties you can tell the date it was created and the person it was created by. Unless your friend retyped it or copied it into a different document, it will probably have your name on it.</p>