The detection of such wholesale cheating in college applications is on the rise due to the use of Turnitin for Admissions, an anti-plagiarism database service that compares student essays to an immense archive of other writings. Around the country, more than 100 colleges and universities have adopted it, mainly in graduate divisions. That growth highlights the search for authenticity in college admissions at a time when the Internet offers huge amounts of tempting free material. Read more at:
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