“What we actually found is just wholesale copying of massive chunks of stuff from websites or … of articles or Wikipedia. “So our initial hypothesis was that the same essays would show up and be recycled by the consultants,” added Ainslie. It would use software from a company called Turnitin to scan the essays and see if they contained passages that had been used before in other essays or somewhere on the web. So for the first time, UCLA’s Anderson School of Management decided to put all the essays submitted by applicants to a test. But quite a few of them either write the essays themselves or pull them out of catalogs.” “Many of these consultants are ethical and do the right thing. “We’ve had a concern for a while that there has been increasing use of these so-called consultants who help applicants with their applications,” said Ainslie. Some now estimate that as many as half the applicants to Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton now employ consultants to give them an edge in polishing their applications to business school. Like many of his business school colleagues, the senior associate dean of UCLA’s MBA program had watched the fairly significant rise in admission consultants over the years.
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