<p>"No one can change their essay after the deadline for submission of applications has passed. If you are the victim of plagiarization then you need to contact the admissions office directly ."</p>
<p>True but the entire application can be withdrawn. If the poster plagarized, he should withdraw his application. If the deadline has passed, so be it. Apply to some new schools at which the deadline has not yet closed with NEW ORIGINAL work.</p>
<p>If the deadline has passed and the poster did NOT plagarize but instead thinks a friend plagarized him and sent it to the same college, he needs to turn the other in or risk being accused of plagarization.</p>
<p>If they both plagarized the same paper, the only correct thing to do (in my mind) is withdraw their applications and reapply elsewhere with original work and chalk it up to a lesson learned a hard way - however being found out will have MUCH deeper ramifications and could be avoided by withdrawing. Big mistake guys, big mistake. But not too late to do something about it and to recognize the incredible importance of honesty and integrity in one's life and in one's work.</p>
<p>In not so distant past Harvard had rescinded their offer to one girl. was it Hornstein? Yes it was.</p>
<p>"The Courier-Post reported that five items by Blair Hornstine that they published "had information from sources that was not properly attributed." Hornstine had, in 2002, contributed several columns to the "Static" section of The Courier-Post, a weekly insert aimed at teenagers. In an apology published in The Courier-Post, Hornstine said that her failure to properly attribute material resulted from her "lack of training in journalism." [10] On July 11, The Harvard Crimson reported that Harvard had rescinded its offer of admission. [9]"</p>
<p>Most college admissions officers would likely notify the high school counselors of the situation and reject the students unless there is some explanation that makes sense. It would be up to the counselors and students as to what would happen with the rest of the college apps. I know at my son's schools, the counselors would insist that the student write each college that got an app and tell them what happened. There would also be a high school consequence for plagerism which is severe.</p>
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<p>Because OP has created (at least) two threads with identical titles. Check the other thread in "college admissions" or something like that. Or maybe the mods can merge the threads.</p>
<p>If you think about it, its kind of funny that a thread about plagiarism has an identical copy on another subforum!</p>
<p>"If you think about it, its kind of funny that a thread about plagiarism has an identical copy on another subforum!"</p>
<p>I was thinking the same thing LOL</p>
<p>My son JUST finished his Senior Project paper (due tomorrow of course) and is required, before he can hand it in (in fact he just uploaded it), to upload it to turnitin.com, a program that his high school (and likely others) use to detect plagarism. It detects what percent does not appear to be "original" as far as wording/structure goes, highlighting those areas, but cannot detect an idea that may be plagarized. I guess these programs can really only go so far.</p>
<p>Fascinating that a school would require kids to submit papers to a plagiarism checker before turning them in. I guess it's like asking them to walk through a metal detector before entering the school. I wouldn't have thought that the proportion of papers that are plagiarized would be that high, but with the availability of virtually anything on the internet, maybe that proportion is much higher than I would have guessed.</p>
<p>""No one can change their essay after the deadline for submission of applications has passed. If you are the victim of plagiarization then you need to contact the admissions office directly ."</p>
<p>It depends on the college. Some students have posted on CC that colleges have allowed them to substitute a different essay. This has occurred when, for instance, students produced better essays for colleges with later deadlines than the ones that the students had first submitted essays to. It also has happened when students mistakenly put the wrong college's name in the essay. The students didn't tell the colleges why they wanted to submit a new essay, they just sent in a different essay and asked that it be substituted for the original one. Probably as long as admissions officers haven't gotten to the point of reading the application, it's possible to switch essays.</p>
<p>Given the number of students on CC who have sent me a PM about plagarism software, what schools to worry about and such, I have a feeling that its a much BIGGER issue than I had realized (and I'm used to seeing the extent of plagarism). </p>
<p>Somehow students can not believe a college would 'go to the trouble' to electronically send an essay through software, given the large quantity they receive (yet they have no problem assuming multiple humans are 'going to the trouble' of reading their applications). </p>
<p>I will bet we'd be shocked by the number of dings due to concerns about plagarism. But no one will ever know.</p>