<p>Just out of curiosity, how carefully do highly selective colleges and the Ivy League members look at the originality of the essays submitted by their applicants? I've heard that people who plagiarised their essays do get their decisions rescinded/ kicked out of school if studying at that college already/ degree rescinded if already graduated from the college. </p>
<p>So, at what stage does the admissions committees look for plagiarism in the application process? cos' it doesn't make sense to me that they check this after admitting the student or after the student has graduated from the school. thanks!</p>
<p>Why are you bumping this thread? You just made it, you moron.</p>
<p>They look at it randomly (during the admission process) and seldomly afterward. The only times I've heard of someone getting busted for plagiarism after the fact is when they're ratted out. Moral of the story: keep your secrets secret and don't tell your enemies incriminating stuff.</p>
<p>any more opinions regarding this matter people? :)</p>
<p>I'm just asking this cos' my roommate and I just brought up this discussion last night.
Note: I'm talking about highly selective colleges/Ivy League. Thanks!</p>
<p>Oh my ****ing god, quit bumping this thread. You obviously plagiarized something and are full of self-doubt and fear that you'll be caught. Realize that at this point it's all submitted and any amount of hearing what you want to hear isn't going to change a damn thing.</p>
<p>erm... no i haven't plagiarised anything, but i do know a few ppl whose got worse stats than i did who have, and they got into even better colleges than i did cos' of their "stellar"(actually stolen) essays. And for that, i do wish that they do get caught. i hope Harvard,Princeton, Stanford and MIT will find out soon. period.</p>
<p>Remember - thousands and thousands of kids apply to college each year, many of which have to write essays in order to gain admission. At this point, it's near impossible to write an original essay these days –– unless, of course, you talk about a personal experience that you, and ONLY YOU, could have experienced. Of course, an essay could still be written in the context of something many have done as long as it focuses on a specific day, or a specific experience that only you had. There's the originality.</p>
<p>How can they "look" for plagiarism anyway? They either realize it the first time they read the essay, or they don't. What else can they do? Google bits of text and see if anything comes up? Start reading the millions of books they never heard about before to check if anything came from there?</p>
<p>If they do find out afterwards it will either be random, or because of a "tip" they get.</p>
<p>Yoyomang just cool it. fhimas is spot on. Your best bet for a college admission is to try for originality, even if it's not as polished as something plagiarized. I mean, how original can a "I went on a trip to Germany and it changed my life" be?</p>
<p>Aren't there websites that check for plagiarism?
One of my teachers showed it to me once. It compares your work to everything that's on the web (similar to Google) but so brings up results that are similar but not identical... It even notices if an essay is a mix of different sources (one paragraph from source one; two sentences from source two, ...).</p>
<p>Maybe a few schools regularly use that service to check application essays.</p>
<p>Btw, did anyone ever plagiarize an essay by translating it from a foreign language?</p>
<p>I put a poem I wrote, and an explanation about why writing is important to me. =P I have published it on the net before =S so I hope that won't affect it...but I did say I did that =P I think something like that would be more unique. Not that the idea of sending in something like that is unique, just that something creative, like a poem, or a song you wrote, or a piece of art work would likely be a lot more personal. An essay you're writing to try to get into a college will always be affected by the simple fact that you're aware of how important it is, and you'll be in a mindset of trying to fit the stereotypical applicant.</p>
<p>our school uses a site called Turn it in...i think. the teachers can scan your writing into the site and it comes up with a % that says how much of it is found from other sources, it highlights the sections that are found to be copied and then lists the other sources where it's found. </p>
<p>writing a poem was a good idea...i wrote a ton of essays and kept deciding to write new ones because id dn't thin they were original enough.</p>