As educational consultants, we often see the stress that comes along with students writing college essays. There is the Common App essay, the supplemental essays, and the scholarship essays. Students can easily be overwhelmed with the process. Whether it is the difficulty of brainstorming topics, or the writing itself. Students often struggle with the essay portion of applications. However, an upward trend in use of the service Turnitin by college. Admissions offices should serve as an important reminder that the work you submit should always be your own.
Plagiarism AI Tools for College Admissions
Academic dishonesty is a familiar term for those who work in college judicial affairs offices. For years, campus officials have used Turnitin, an anti-plagiarism database service to make sure that college students weren’t recycling papers from other students or other sources. Turnitin and other new AI plagiarism tools are being used in college admissions.
A number of colleges and universities have adopted these services as a way to quickly review essays and assess whether they may have been written by AI. The risk with these tools, however, are false positives, where the software marks an essay as likely being written with the help of AI but it was not. Colleges continue to experiment and fine-tune these solutions but they will likely gain in use over time. The colleges then can determine whether or not the applicant warrants a rejection based on plagiarism.
So, take our advice, and write your own essays.
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