<p>I've been waiting for this article to be published for quite a while now, though I admit I hadn't given a thought about finding it (and the CC post bound to be about it) until just now.. Jon Weinbach even wrote a post here on CC (and even mentions CC in the article) asking for some feedback on the issue. He contacted me for my opinions and, ultimately, didn't mention anything I said. But that's okay, because I didn't think I had said anything exceptionally interesting, save for the fact that, my academic environment being as cutthroat as it is, I don't know anyone who DOESN'T cheat. Go figure. :D</p>
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Before mailing out acceptance and rejection letters over the past week, thousands of colleges and graduate schools conducted their usual reviews of test scores, transcripts and essays. But less publicly, admissions officers focused on something else: police databases, plagiarism checks and reports by private-investigators.</p>
<p>There's a new age of vigilance in academia. Spooked by incidents including guidance-counselor fraud in Los Angeles, blatant plagiarism at MIT and campus crime in North Carolina, colleges and graduate schools are shoring up their admissions process. In an era when applicants seek an edge with $500-an-hour "admissions consultants" and online essay-editing services, schools are using their own new methods to vet prospective students. Much like corporations that have been burned by CEO r</p>