<p>Do ivy league schools share essays written by appicants? Is there some kind of interivy network going on lol? If I get rejected by Columbia and use the same essay I wrote for COlumbia for Cornell will they look down on that? Is there some safeguard against plagiarism of other applicants' essays as well? Thank you so much!</p>
<p>I can't prove it, but I really doubt that they share essays. The amount of reading they have to do for the essays actually sent to them would seem to make reading others forwarded from other schools really unlikely.</p>
<p>I have never heard of a safeguard against plagiarism other than a fervent expectation (or at least hope) that it won't happen. Obviously, if the same essay gets into the hands of the same reader more than once, that's a different story.</p>
<p>The Columbia admissions office is paperless (even if you apply by paper). There aren't admissions "folders"/"files." It wouldn't be too hard to could run a computer program to check against plagiarism, but I'm not aware of them doing so as a matter of routine.</p>
<p>I've never heard of colleges sharing essays. Perhaps they don't want to mess with something like that, after they got busted for colluding on financial aid award information.</p>
<p>I dont think they will since even they are awear that students use same essay for multiple schools.</p>