Did anyone know anyone who had been accused of plagiarizing their own essay they posted here? I posted one essay without thinking about it. And I am about to submit it this Thursday. Its for Rutgers University and I am really worried about it. I can no longer take down my post. Please HELP
It’s not common they do find ones on here. It is still possible however so I suggest you get in contact with a moderator who can remove it.
So there is a possibility it could happen it is uncommon but it’s better to be safe than sorry.
I think there is not much of a chance that adcons will take your essay and submit it to a plagiarism site like Turnitin. The essay should be sufficiently tied to you and your achievements and such that it would not be likely to have been stolen from else where. I would not worry about it. Remember, schools get thousands of essays. They are not going to upload them all to some plagiarism site. They can determine the possibility that someone else wrote the essay by looking at things like test scores and grades in English related classes. Don’t worry about it.
I’m sorry, but I must disagree with @lostaccount. For all plagiarism checkers the most important thing is that your essay is already published and that’s why will be shown in plagiarism report. So if you posted your essay here and everyone could see it and read it, it means that plagiarism detection software will show talk.collegeconfidential.com as the main resource of your essay. That will look like you just copy and pasted some essay from this web site.
That is how Turnitin(http://turnitin.com/), Unplag(https://unplag.com/) and other checkers works.
so contact the moderator and try to delete that post. But the better idea is to write the completely new essay (It could be a hard for a few hours, unfortunately)
And the last thing - you could just hope that they will not check them out with plagiarism checker at all. (This is possible too 
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You could also e-mail the admissions office at Rutgers and tell them the situation. Most likely they will tell you not to worry about it.
With tons of sutdents applying to rutgers, do you think they really have a plagarism check?
@yzeerf : Probably not for all applicants, but very likely for those the school is considering admitting.
Writing a new essay is such a waste. I worked hard on this one. And also i dony like admissions to think im stupid enough not to think i didnt think through this. Anyone give me a really good advice. Some people say not to worry some say to worry.
chris0fer, I have to say that I have used Turnitin and certain other tools and sites for as long as they have existed. I am very experienced! LOl. I have not been a student simply posting my thoughts for…well since decades before that was an option. But back to topic-My point was that admissions counselors are unlikely to upload every essay into a system like Turnitin. They are unlikely to have contracted with Turnitin in a way that would allow the portal link to run essays through Turnitin.
There would also be all kinds of other issues that would make linking the essay portal to turnitin prohibitive. Further, there is really no point. Think through this. What information does the essay really provide? Why is it important? if you think it is for flowery prose that could be easily stolen and re-used, you are mistaken. The value is in the information that may be shared in the essay that was not contained in the lists provided by the candidate or by the high school. And that information is highly personal-about someone’s hardship or travels or achievement. The importance does not reside in how someone used a particular word (students love to sprinkle their essays with worlds like “plethora” lol) . Someone who has to steal an essay from an online source will lack necessary supportive evidence such as decent scores, so the essay won’t be of much use (unless the student is from a country that has institutionalized cheating, and we know which ones those are now). Also the essay is generally too specific and personal to be helpful to others.
So, for students who already posted their essay on this or other sites for feedback, I would not worry about it. I certainly would not re-write an essay. For those who are contemplating it, I wouldn’t do it. The essay should be generated by you and looked over by one other person for typos and minor advice.
And absolutely do not call a college and tell that college you stuck your essay up on a post to get feedback! Are you kidding? What do you think the impact of doing that would be? Any Ad Con will question your judgement about the post and then about contacting them. It would be like plastering “I am stupid” on your forehead before an interview. And, while I’ve said that interviews generally don’t count for much, that would probably initiate an exception.
@lostaccount : What about putting “©[create date]” at the very end? Would that be too weird?
@lostaccount yeah that would make you look stupid calling admissions about these. I mean i would be really worried if someone did really got accused of plagiarism in this website before.
Can’t hurt to contact admissions. Taking the time to write an email also shows you are interested. With everyone applying to multiple schools it’s hard for admissions to know who is really interested and who isn’t.
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Having said that, and with the disclaimer that I did not read the OP’s essay, I have read many essays here; there are surprisingly very few that are of the caliber that someone would want to plagiarize them. I would not worry. If the college did run a plagiarism check, it would probably just come back to the OP’s post.
LOL Skieurope. Right. not worth worrying about.
@skieurope Thanks for clarification!
So… It means that if you are using a plagiarism checker which checks against the Internet (as SafeAssign or Unplag), it possibly could find matches with everything ever published on College Confidential?
For all guys above, including @losaccount, I should to apologize as maybe I was not so accurate with my words.
It’s true that Turnitin uses its academic database (it’s extremely huge and consist millions of students’ papers). However, it has their own web crawler the main purpose of which is to crawl the Internet and to transform all content in a searchable form. It means that content from web pages is also a part of Turnitin’s database.
Can you just run it through copyscape and see?
I totally agree. I wouldn’t worry (and I’m the one who created the Plagiarism thread).
No worries guys lol i got accepted!