"Finding Applicants Who Plagiarize "

calmom
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:52:04 +0000

That might work for the MBA program that was the subject of the Higher Ed. article … but the last thing that most college ad coms are looking for in an application essay is a few thousand different 500-word treatments of an assigned topic.

They are looking primarily for information that gives them some insight into the individual – and only secondarily for evidence of basic written communication skills.