UCLA Anderson School of Management has scrapped 15 and Penn State’s Smeal College of Business thrown 48 applications into the waste paper basket due to a plagiarism-spotting service, Turnitin for Admissions.
Turnitin checks admissions essays against a database of published and unpublished sources and flags similarities. In total, about 15 schools use Turnitin.
Last year, Anderson rejected 52 applicants for plagiarism as part of the first two rounds. This time about 70 applicants may be rejected for plagiarism this year by the end of the third and final round.
Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek
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