Master's in Plagiarism

摘要

For $29.99, an MBA applicant can purchase an admissions essay that got someone else accepted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or London Business School from the website Wordprom. If that person is daring, she might even try to pass parts of the essay off as her own. Cheating has generally been rampant at B-schools. Rutgers Business School professor Don McCabe surveyed 5,000 graduate students between 2002 and 2004 and found that MBA students cheated more than their nonbusiness peers. "Recycled essays are the biggest problem we see," says Carrie Mar-cinkevage, managing director of the MBA program at Pennsylvania State University's Smeal College of Business.