Posting essays online?

SkeezeyJ
Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:40:37 +0000

The biggest problem with posting them online is that some schools runs plagiarism checkers, so it may complicate things a bit when a search engine turns up a public site like College Confidential. I assume there’s a way to prevent overlap so that you don’t end up plagiarizing yourself in the machine, but I don’t think there’s one to prevent it from turning up elsewhere. Another thing is that someone could easily steal your essay and end up applying to the same school or through the same regional admissions office, which would end up messing things up quite a bit. The risks aren’t probably THAT huge, but that far outweigh the reward of having instant user access and more immediate responses in the “College Essays” thread.