<p>I wrote my short answer for describing one EC. and posted its draft here on CC before I submitted. There is no way adcoms can predict that I am the same person who wrote that short answer and who posted here in CC. Do you think I might be panalysed for this? It would be really painful if that happened. I might not get into any college.</p>
<p>The word is spelled “penalized.”</p>
<p>It is unlikely this would be noticed by any adcom.</p>
<p>Unlikely that anyone checks EC descriptions. Your question does raise a good point about the danger of publicly posting essays though.</p>
<p>and another things,</p>
<p>if my EC description is cut off by common app, will that hurt?</p>
<p>I had checked but failed to realize that one final and half of second last sentence was cut off and the description is clearly incomplete but it is not so meaningless as well.</p>
<p>^Methinks that when you complete a college application, that you should do so, or otherwise endeavor to reach a goal of it being flawless. You only do this once as an h.s. senior and you do not want to have any regrets.</p>
<p>Hm, some speculative answers here.</p>
<p>Bottom line: don’t stress about it. Seriously.</p>
<p>Yes they most likely will find and see your thread. Harvard -and virtually all other colleges- uses anti plagiarism services on applications. If you check your signed statements on the common app, you’ll see Harvard specifically says they use this. It’s also probably in common app policies that tell you not to put personal contact in your essays if you’re uncomfortable with them being in third party’s data bases. </p>
<p>Even though they won’t know it’s you, they will assume it is and won’t think you stole it from some poster on CC. Wikipedia would obviously be a different story…</p>
<p>There is a website, I think turnitin, that lets students submit their work to check it for plagiarism. Personally I would never use it, nor would I post my work on the internet :).</p>
<p>Good thinking - don’t bother the office with this, and don’t - worry! :)</p>