In other words: Yes, we are well aware of this. We tweeted about it the morning that article came out: Turnitin got significant play a few weeks ago when an LA Times article talked about how their software was being adopted by grad schools – including UCLA Anderson and Stanford. Yes, we can, and will, fire a client if we feel you’re being unethical in your application process. The next set of drafts had the same issues, but worse: this time, he included sentences lifted straight from the target school’s website. Clearly he must not realize the problem (he was a foreign candidate, morals are different in different countries). But then we realized that the proper response was to educate the client. At the time, we did some research on available options, and even toyed with the idea of getting a license to the Turnitin thing. We first heard of them several years back, when we had a client who we suspected had plagiarized his work: the drafts he was submitting to us were way better than what this guy could write. They’re this company that makes plagiarism-detection software. We’ve been following Turnitin on Twitter for some time. And we like to know what adcoms are doing. Just, you know, because it’s interesting. We just figured we’d point to some recent news items about plagiarism in university admissions. So this post is definitely not for any of you. (Or, 2016 version: You’d never lift key elements of a speech you were giving to a political convention. You’d never copy an essay that you found on a website.
You’d never write your own letter of recommendation.
You’d never lie on your application to graduate school. We know that none of you would ever cheat.
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