Discover, Confirm, Protect, and be Better Informed

Turnitin for Admissions compares submitted admissions documents to our extensive database to create a comprehensive Similarity Report (example below). This report highlights and provides links to any significant text match found within our databases. Locating these duplicate instances will help admissions staff to decide if plagiarism, duplication, collusion or other problems may exist in the application.

Admissions Decisions and Processes are improved:

Discover Duplication and Detect Plagiarism

Admissions offices receive multiple documents as a part of the application process. Admissions essays, personal statements, essay questions, fellowship statements, and statements of purpose may not be the original work of the applicant. Use the information presented in the similarity reports to quickly discover duplication and plagiarism while gaining a better understanding of your applicants.

Confirm and Protect

Turnitin for Admissions provides a technological solution that improves the verification process and helps your admissions representatives make faster and more equitable decisions. This technology helps institutions maintain honor codes, ethics policies and helps protect the institution’s reputation.

Better Informed

Create best practices in your selection process by obtaining information that was previously unavailable and impossible to obtain. Your decisions can be confirmed to allow you to enroll the best students for your institution and improve retention of students.

The Similarity Report contains:

Direct-source comparisons of matched words to matched documents (highlighted with-or-without color coding), numbered and aligned side-by-side
Pattern-recognition matching of both word-for-word and paraphrased materials
Ability to exclude any individual match or a direct match to the applicant
Ability to view all underlying matched words that have been obscured by overlapping matches
Option to resubmit the Similarity Report to include all current data in the database
Option to build an internal database of your institutions applications or participate and submit to the central Turnitin for Admissions database

File Formats

Acceptable submission formats include: Word¨ & Word¨ XML (.doc, .docx), WordPerfect¨ (.wpd), Rich Text Format (.rtf), HTML (.htm, .html), Text (.txt), PostScript (.ps, .eps), and portable document format (.pdf). Cut & Paste submission option accommodates unlisted file formats.