We, at BizSchoolPrep, strongly support UCLA's initiative in not only catching plagiarism in MBA Admissions but also making these numbers public to warn many others who are toying with the idea of lifting essays from other sources.
A dozen MBA applicants at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management have been rejected after the school discovered plagiarism in their admissions essays—including a passage lifted from businessweek.com.
As the Los Angeles Times reported on Jan. 29, the applicants’ undoing was a service called Turnitin for Admissions. As we’ve reported, the service scans admissions essays and compares them to a huge database containing billions of pages of web content, books and journals, as well as student work previously submitted to Turnitin for a plagiarism check. Turnitin looks for instances of matching text, but leaves it to the individual schools to determine whether the similarity is plagiarism or an innocent mistake.
In the UCLA case, the 12 cases of plagiarism were found in a batch of 870 applications for the current admissions cycle, the Times reported. A phone call to Andrew Ainslie, a senior associate dean at Anderson, was not returned before this post was published. In one case, an applicant wrote that he “worked for organizations in which the culture has been open and nurturing, and for others that have been elitist. In the latter case, arrogance becomes pervasive, straining external partnerships.” The passage appears remarkably similar to one that appears in a “sample application essay’ written by an applicant to the Boston University MBA program. The essay was published anonymously by businessweek.com in 2003 as part of a feature providing advice to applicants on how to write effective essays.
Turnitin for Admissions, which launched in 2009, is now used by as many as 20 business schools including Brandeis University’s International Business School, Iowa State’s College of Business, Northeastern’s College of Business, Wake Forest Schools of Business, and Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. Smeal was prompted to sign on with Turnitin after the admissions committee discovered 29 cases of plagiarism in a batch of 360 essays submitted for the 2010 admissions cycle.
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The number of MBA applicants at UCLA's Anderson School of Management that have been rejected because of plagiarism has grown exponentially, with 40 more rejected in the second round of applications.
The new cases of plagiarism bring the total to 52. As we reported yesterday, 12 cases of plagiarism were discovered in a batch of 870 first-round applications. An additional 40 cases were discovered in the applications submitted for the second-round, says Elise Anderson, a spokeswoman for the school. The third round, which has an April 18 deadline, typically gets another 500 to 700 applications, Anderson says. So it's possible that more plagiarized essays will be found in the third round.
The plagiarism was discovered through the use of a service called Turnitin for Admissions, which scans admissions essays looking for text that matches any documents in the Turnitin database. The archive contains billions of pages of web content, books and journals, as well as student work previously submitted to Turnitin for a plagiarism check. Turnitin flags any matches it finds, but individual schools determine if the similarity constitutes plagiarism. The service is now in use by nearly 20 business schools, including those at Penn State, Iowa State, Northeastern, and Wake Forest.
Source: BusinessWeek...
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A dozen MBA applicants at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management have been rejected after the school discovered plagiarism in their admissions essays—including a passage lifted from businessweek.com.
As the Los Angeles Times reported on Jan. 29, the applicants’ undoing was a service called Turnitin for Admissions. As we’ve reported, the service scans admissions essays and compares them to a huge database containing billions of pages of web content, books and journals, as well as student work previously submitted to Turnitin for a plagiarism check. Turnitin looks for instances of matching text, but leaves it to the individual schools to determine whether the similarity is plagiarism or an innocent mistake.
In the UCLA case, the 12 cases of plagiarism were found in a batch of 870 applications for the current admissions cycle, the Times reported. A phone call to Andrew Ainslie, a senior associate dean at Anderson, was not returned before this post was published. In one case, an applicant wrote that he “worked for organizations in which the culture has been open and nurturing, and for others that have been elitist. In the latter case, arrogance becomes pervasive, straining external partnerships.” The passage appears remarkably similar to one that appears in a “sample application essay’ written by an applicant to the Boston University MBA program. The essay was published anonymously by businessweek.com in 2003 as part of a feature providing advice to applicants on how to write effective essays.
Turnitin for Admissions, which launched in 2009, is now used by as many as 20 business schools including Brandeis University’s International Business School, Iowa State’s College of Business, Northeastern’s College of Business, Wake Forest Schools of Business, and Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. Smeal was prompted to sign on with Turnitin after the admissions committee discovered 29 cases of plagiarism in a batch of 360 essays submitted for the 2010 admissions cycle.
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The number of MBA applicants at UCLA's Anderson School of Management that have been rejected because of plagiarism has grown exponentially, with 40 more rejected in the second round of applications.
The new cases of plagiarism bring the total to 52. As we reported yesterday, 12 cases of plagiarism were discovered in a batch of 870 first-round applications. An additional 40 cases were discovered in the applications submitted for the second-round, says Elise Anderson, a spokeswoman for the school. The third round, which has an April 18 deadline, typically gets another 500 to 700 applications, Anderson says. So it's possible that more plagiarized essays will be found in the third round.
The plagiarism was discovered through the use of a service called Turnitin for Admissions, which scans admissions essays looking for text that matches any documents in the Turnitin database. The archive contains billions of pages of web content, books and journals, as well as student work previously submitted to Turnitin for a plagiarism check. Turnitin flags any matches it finds, but individual schools determine if the similarity constitutes plagiarism. The service is now in use by nearly 20 business schools, including those at Penn State, Iowa State, Northeastern, and Wake Forest.
Source: BusinessWeek...
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