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Plagiarism Detection Efforts Streamlined Within the College Admissions Process
PR Newswire- Hobsons' ApplyYourself is now integrated with Turnitin® for Admissions to verify admission essay originality.
Business Schools Doing Multiple Things to Discuss and Address Plagiarism and Integrity in Admissions Essays
PR Newswire- Business schools choose Turnitin for Admissions integrated with ApplyYourself to verify admissions essays and discover plagiarism.
Pharmacy College Applications Screened Using Turnitin for Admissions
PR Newswire-The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and Turnitin for Admissions partner to provide authenticity and plagiarism review as part of the college application process.
Penn State Battles the Growing Problem of Applicant Plagiarism
University Business Magazine- March 2011 - Page 16 By Tim Goral, Editor in Chief. "The irony of a business school looking for "principled leaders" among its applicants and finding dozens of cases of plagiarism underscores a growing problem."
Common App may use plagiarism website to check essays
Student Newspaper "Columbia Spectator," By Constance Boozer (note the comments) "The Common Application, which Columbia is now using, is considering a service being marketed by Turnitin.com to check for plagiarism on college application essays."
Technology Will Keep B-School Applicants Honest -Business schools can count on technology to prevent applicants from plagiarizing essays. Pro or con?
Bloomberg Businessweek web column, "The Debate Room." (note the comments)
New service to combat application plagiarism
Student newspaper, "The Dartmouth" By Lindsay Brewer ..."We honestly built this at the request of admissions offices," he said in an interview with The Dartmouth. "They really do care about what they do and they've wanted a way to verify this one piece that they've not been able to verify in the past."
I will just copy U. -Company Helps colleges spot plagiarism in applications
iPad newspaper, "The Daily," By Benjamin Carlson "If essays on college applications sound familiar to admissions officers, that might be because they've read them before."(new media reports on new technology)
Online resource detects cheating -Companies offer college admissions offices ability to recognize plagiarism
Student newspaper at the University of Virginia, "The Cavalier Daily" By Chloe Devere and Sara Guaglione (It is interesting that they think that an honor code stops plagiarism by applicants)
New partnership develops additional plagiarism-detection tool
Student newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania, "Daily Pennsylvanian," by Seth Zweifler "If you're not using technology like this in this day and age, then you might be making a decision based on information that isn't totally accurate," Lorton said. "You're giving a spot to somebody who might not deserve it."
Preventative software can't stop all kinds of cheating
Student newspaper at Texas Christian University, "The Daily Skiff" Opinion By Bailey McGowan "...A level of integrity must be upheld in order to ensure one fully understands the topic. Once this integrity is forfeited, the entire institution suffers."
Admissions Essay Plagiarism
Bloomberg Businessweek, "Live Chat" Interview by Francesca Di Meglio "Carrie Marcinkevage discusses Smeal's recent discovery of plagiarism in dozens of MBA application essays and why it now checks every essay that's submitted."
Penn State Cracks Down on Plagiarism
Bloomberg Businessweek Business School Admissions web column, "Getting In." By Alison Damast. "At the Smeal College of Business, dozens of MBA applicants who plagiarized admissions essays on "principled leadership" were shown the door. They won't be the last."
New Partners in the Plagiarism-Detection Business
The Chronicle of Higher Education web column, "Head Count." By Eric Hoover. "Whether plagiarism-detection software becomes a fixture of college admissions remains to be seen. But it's safe to say the odds of more institutions' embracing such a tool just increased."
Plagiarism remains rampant: Turnitin for Admissions announces new partnership
ZDNet web column, "ZDNet Education," By Christopher Dawson. "Thinking of submitting a college application that isn't 100% original? Think again."
Hobsons To Add Turnitin for Plagiarism Checking in Admissions Process
Campus Technology By Dian Schaffhauser. "A manual review of 360 applications still in process uncovered 29 applicants who had submitted essays that contained plagiarism."
Hobsons and Turnitin for Admissions Join Forces to Streamline Application Management and Plagiarism Detection Efforts
PR Newswire. "Higher education technology leaders partner, enabling admissions teams to focus on enrollment rather than application quality."
Case Study At PSU
Case Study: Plagiarism in MBA Application Essays. Penn State's Smeal College of Business found 29 applicants had submitted essays that contained plagiarism.

New Research by Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Research completed at one of the Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals, Brigham and Women's Hospital, was published on July 20th 2010 in the 4th most cited medical journal in the world, the Annals of Internal Medicine. The researchers used our beta version of Turnitin for Admissions in their research and found at least 1 in 20 residency application personal statements included plagiarized content. We believe (and the researchers agree) that the results would have been much higher if the similarity reports had been read as they would be during the application review process to determine if small matches to a suspect website or document indicated plagiarism. The following articles are a handful of over 50 reports on this research.

Plagiarism in Residency Application Essays
Scott Segal, Brian J. Gelfand, Shelley Hurwitz, Lori Berkowitz, Stanley W. Ashley, Eric S. Nadel, and Joel T. Katz
Ann Intern Med 2010;153 112-120 (subscription required to view the entire article)
Plagiarism on Personal Statements: A Disturbing Symptom of a Broader Trend
Maxine A. Papadakis and David Wofsy
Ann Intern Med 2010;153 128-129 (subscription required)
"1 In 20 Young Docs Plagiarize Admissions Essays"
NPR interview by Meghna Chakrabarti with Dr. Scott Segal.
"Plagiarism evidence found in residency applications."
American Medical News web column by Carolyne Krupa. "Researchers call for a national initiative after a study at a Boston hospital finds that one in 20 applicants submitted false or uncredited information."
"Should the Hippocratic Oath include a pledge not to plagiarize?"
Los Angeles Times Times web column, "BOOSTER SHOTS," By Karen Kaplan. "(Actually, the researchers said they think many essays that scored in the high single digits were probably also plagiarized to some extent.)"
"5% of medical residents plagiarize personal essays"
ZDNet web column, "ZDNet Education," By Christopher Dawson. Summary- "What does it mean when even our applicants for medical residency programs cheat?"
Plagiarism Common in Residency Applications.
Brigham and Women's Hospital Press Release: "Plagiarism Common in Residency Applications." "Although there is anecdotal evidence of plagiarism in residency applications, until now there has never been a formal study of the prevalence of this behavior in the United States."
"1 in 20 residency applications contain plagiarism, study finds."
Boston Globe web column, "White Coat Notes," by Elizabeth Cooney. "Dr. Scott Segal and Dr. Brian Gelfand have seen a lot of residency applications. After 10 years of reading personal essays medical school graduates write to earn a spot in prestigious training programs at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the doctors came across two personal essays that not only sounded familiar but contained an identical paragraph."

More Turnitin for Admissions News

Hi-tech plagiarism-detection services awaken b-schools to admission-essay cheating.
MBA Blog PaGaLGuY.com by Lajwanti D'souza. "When asked whether there are cues that evaluators keep in mind while deciding whether a piece of work can be labeled as being plagiarized, Marcinkevage said that effort is made to keep a positive outlook and go into the admissions process looking for the great things in candidates, rather than cynically looking at every candidate wondering whether s/he cheated. "That's why using the software can be so helpful. Let the software be the bad guy and look for cheating. Let the admissions staff check for the greater aspects of fit and potential, not cheating."
A New Tool to Catch Plagiarism in Admissions Essays
Chronicle of Higher Ed web column, "Wired Campus." By Kelly Truong. "A few college admissions committees are ramping up efforts to detect dishonest applicants."
Penn State cracks down on application plagiarism
College News web column. By Janelle Vreeland. "After 30 applicants stole from the same essay, Penn State enlists the help of plagiarism detecting software."
Finding Applicants Who Plagiarize
Inside Higher Ed web news column. By Scott Jaschik, Editor. "It wasn't that hard for admissions officers for the M.B.A. program at Pennsylvania State University to figure out that they had a plagiarism problem this year."
Turnitin for Admissions - Kids these days
ZDNet web column, "ZDNet Education." By Christopher Dawson."Summary: Turnitin for Admissions is ready for prime time. Just adopted by the Penn State MBA program, it provides powerful tools to ensure that the best, brightest, and most ethical get into our best universities."
Penn State Checking MBA Application Essays for Plagiarism
BusinessWeek Business School Admissions web column, "Getting In." By Louis Lavelle. "Back in January, I wrote a blog post about a new service that checks application essays for signs of plagiarism by running them through a huge database of previously submitted essays and other works."
Penn State MBA Applications Screened Using ʻTurnitin for Admissionsʼ
Global Leader Selected by Smeal College of Business to Screen MBA Applicant Essays for Plagiarized and Unoriginal Content OAKLAND, Calif. – June 21, 2010 – iParadigms, creator of Turnitin for Admissions®, Turnitin®, and iThenticate® and the global leader in plagiarism prevention, today announced that its Turnitin for Admissions service has been selected by the Penn State Smeal College of Business.
"Hubbub Explainer: Suspect Plagiarism? Turnitin."
Follow up to the NPR interview on the blog "Hubbub Explainer: Suspect Plagiarism? Turnitin." By Andrew Phelps NPR Boston.
A Culture Of Plagiarism, Fraud In Academia"
Ex-Harvard student Adam Wheeler is accused of what the authorities say is an elaborate and calculated lie about his academic record. Jeff Lorton with Turnitin for Admissions interviewed By Andrew Phelps on the Boston National Public Radio show, "Radio Boston", hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti.
Plagiarism Patrol "Exactly How Personal Is That Personal Statement?"
New York Times, Education Life section; Blackboard Column "Talk about chutzpah. The admissions director for Penn State's M.B.A. program, Carrie Marcinkevage, recalls..."
College Applications: Plagiarism or Playing the Game
Today's Campus Online, "Damning evidence indicates that college applicants are cheaters." by Tom Robinson, Editor
Plagiarism May Be Rife in Higher Ed Applications
Campus Technology, "Plagiarism appears to be endemic in applications,..." by Dian Schaffhauser March 1,2010
Turnitin Stops Application Plagiarism
Stacy Blackman Consulting website column: The days of recycling, repurposing, lifting or otherwise finessing application content that is not completely 100% original-a.k.a. plagiarizing-may soon be at an end...
Turnitin Begins Crackdown on Plagiarism in Admissions Essays
BusinessWeek Business School Admissions website column, "Getting In." "Turnitin Begins Crackdown on Plagiarism in Admissions Essays" by Louis Lavelle January 20, 2010.
iParadigms Announces Turnitin for Admissions™
Admissions officers can rapidly verify originality of application materials OAKLAND, Calif. - December 1, 2009 -- iParadigms today announced Turnitin for Admissions, a web-based tool that enables admissions officers to rapidly detect plagiarism and assess the originality of student application materials to college and university programs.