<p>Anyone know if/when colleges run essays through software isht ?</p>
<p>My friend said if an essay seems sort of conspicuous (abrupt change of language or something like that), the school will scan it with others.</p>
<p>Anyone know the credibility of this?</p>
<p>Since prob thousands of essays are read each day it seemed improbable that every one would be run through some machine thingy to compare it to all the others.</p>
<p>Colleges generally scan everything they get onto their computers (or so I hear). It is not too hard for them to take essays from the computer and run all of them through anitplagiarism software. Adcoms may do this anyway if they find one essay to sound very familiar.</p>
<p>What stuff comes up when they scan the essays? Obviously it's not absurd for more than one essay to have a similar sentence (I would like to attend Harvard because...). Is it to see if more than one applicant submitted the same whole essay as another, or the same whole essay as from a prev yr ?</p>
<p>Umm, just don't plagiarize and you won't have a problem...</p>