“Many of these consultants are ethical and do the right thing. “We’ve had a concern for a while that there has been increasing use of these so-called consultants who help applicants with their applications,” said Ainslie.
Some now estimate that as many as half the applicants to Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton now employ consultants to give them an edge in polishing their applications to business school. That growth highlights the search for authenticity in college admissions at a time when the internet offers huge amounts of tempting free material, increasing numbers of private coaches sell admissions advice, and online companies peddle pre-written essays.Like many of his business school colleagues, the senior associate dean of UCLA’s MBA program had watched the fairly significant rise in admission consultants over the years. The program is a version of the Turnitin software that already is popular as a plagiarism-detection tool in academic departments.Īround the country, more than 100 colleges and universities have adopted the admissions version of the software, mainly in graduate divisions, although Stanford University is among the dozen schools starting to use it for freshman applicants this year. The detection of such wholesale cheating in college applications is on the rise, owing to the use of Turnitin for Admissions, an anti-plagiarism database service that compares student essays to an immense archive of other writings.
The UCLA applicant was rejected this year-for plagiarism. Sound familiar? The Boston University student’s essay was written in 2003 and had been posted at. In the latter case, arrogance becomes pervasive, straining external partnerships.” 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.”Īnother applicant’s essay for UCLA’s Anderson School of Management was about his father.
“I have worked for organizations in which the culture has been open and nurturing, and for others that have been elitist. The student’s admissions essay for Boston University’s MBA program was about persevering in the business world. College officials say Turnitin catches plagiarism more efficiently than people.
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