So for an English assignment, we were required to submit our college essay to turnitin. I recently read that colleges run college essays through turnitin to check for plagiarism and now I’m worried that my essay with turn up plagiarized (even though it isn’t) because it matched with something I wrote before.
Is this a legitimate concern?
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it’s questionable whether colleges bother to check.
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it’s questionable whether your app will the colleges you apply to will matter because a) it’s simply doesn’t matter to the college b/c the essay is a BS assignment or b) your app is getting rejected
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Let’s say your app does proceed AND the college checks. The lone hit is YOUR OWN work. What would you do if you were a logical person? Give that admissions officer the same benefit of the doubt.