MBA Admissions Committees Focusing on Plagarism - 工管

It has been reported recently that Penn State University has rejected
29 applicants for plagiarizing portions of essays submitted to the
Smeal College of Business MBA program. A number of the applicants had
copied language from an online essay and included it into the Smeal MBA
"principled leadership" essay.

Reports like this are likely to surface more often as MBA and other graduate
school programs, who appear to be very serous about detecting cheaters, will
now have advanced software available that can scan essays and personal
statements searching for plagiarized language. A company called iParadigms,
LLC is now offering plagiarism prevention software to graduate school programs
across the globe. Thus far, on Penn State University is the only school that
has publicly announced that it is using the iParadigms software, but it is
believed that this software is already being used by many MBA programs and
will be widely used in the near future.

As an admissions consultant, I often notice language in essays that has
been copied from published books of successful application essays and warn
my clients not to engage in this practice. Because of the advanced detection
software that will be widely used in the future, now more than ever it will
be important for applicants to create original essays that display their
unique experiences and characteristics in an interesting and persuasive way.

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