<p>I was just wondering what would happen if a college admission officer notices that two essays that he has read are very similar, even exactly the same. What would he do about those two applicants? Would he contact them both, just one of them, or not consider their applications at all? Would the college contact other colleges as well? I would really like an answer to this question. Thank you.</p>
<p>This is exactly why people on here should be careful about posting college essays for proofreading.</p>
<p>And I heard that lying about extracurriculars could lead to the college automatically denying you, or revoking your acceptance if discovered after your decision.</p>
<p>Getting caught basically taints your whole application, I couldn't see any college accepting you if thy discovered it...let alone Cornell.
This shows them that you didnt take them seriously </p>
<p>I would think that only below average schools would even consider your application.</p>
<p>if they are the same you are screwed....</p>
<p>The thing is, even if they don't catch the similarity for admission... If it ever comes up during the four years of schooling, the student will be kicked out. It's quite a risk, and if caught the student will probably be blacklisted and of course, rejected. Plagarizing an essay is considerably worse than fibbing about EC'd and such, colleges take it VERY seriously.</p>
<p>I'm so scared someone might plagiarize my essays because (stupidly) I posted them online but I can't edit my posts anymore. And I emailed the makers of the site, but they're just ignoring me. -_-"</p>
<p>Would withdrawing one's application be the best option to avoid any consequences (i.e. g.c. being contacted, other schools being notified)? How would one be able to to withdraw their application to the university?</p>
<p>Alicimoo:</p>
<p>If you have a problem, contact the college and state that you were the originator of the essay, and that the other person must have copied.</p>
<p>You can provide the college with your screen name and your CC password, so that they can check for themselves that you posted your essays online, which would explain the duplication.</p>
<p>Another question regarding plagiarizing.... is there a system that is put in place that shows the essays of all applicants in the country so that when an essay is used one, two, or a few years later that admissions team can find that out. for example...</p>
<p>let's say that student A graduated a year earlier than student B. student A is a college freshman and goes to a university on the west coast and student B is a high school senior applying to this one university on the east coast.</p>
<p>Student A gave student B the copy of her essay so that student B can get ideas off of it. However, student B ends up copying student A's essay, almost 80% of it and submitting it as his essay to the college on the east coast.</p>
<p>How does the admissions team be able to detect this act of plagiarizing? Is there a system put in place in which when student B submits his essay, student A's profile is drawn up and shows that she had the same essay a year before?</p>
<p>And no, this is not me. Feel free to think so because I know how CC'ers like to think hahahah. but yeah.. does anyone know?</p>
<p>^^ edit: is there like a turnitin.com thing that all colleges participate in so that each college can compare essays they receive to other colleges and their essays?</p>
<p>You should tell any colleges you are worried about that received your essay your circumstances as soon as possible. Tell them exactly what happened honestly and candidly.</p>
<p>I don't know if they use TurnItIn, but now that you mention it, I think it would be extremely easy to do. So I'm thinking, "why would they not use TurnItIn?" Very easy way to narrow the pool (especially valuable when character and integrity are important selection attributes).</p>
<p>For those not familiar with TurnItIn, every piece of writing can be run through the system and stored in the TurnItIn database. It will immediately tell the school how much that essay shares in common sentences with a billion other published sources in the database (or any previously submitted essays to TurnItIn, anywhere, any time period). </p>
<p>Every university I know uses TurnItIn (or equivalent) in some capacity, so I imagine it's also used for admissions. Again, why would it not be?</p>
<p>@ivydreamin - Hopefully I won't even encounter this problem.</p>
<p>Why would someone ever plagiarize an essay? I mean, seriously? It's not like essays are deal breakers in the admissions process. Just write <em>something</em>, and if it's not ridiculously awful you'll be fine.</p>
<p>is it too late to withdraw my applications?</p>
<p>Death, obviously.</p>
<p>whoops nevermind hahah</p>