Penn State Cracks Down on Plagiarism
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Admissions Director Carrie Marcinkevage was sitting in her office reviewing business school application essays last February when she stumbled on a sentence that bore an uncanny resemblance to an essay she had just finished reading. The essay, one of five required in the application, asked students to discuss the connections between principled leadership and business.
"I had that inevitable moment of 'Oh gosh, I swear I have seen this sentence before,' " says Marcinkevage, who heads the MBA admissions office at Pennsylvania State University's Smeal College of Business (Smeal Full-Time MBA Profile).