“They say there was gaming of the system 20 and 30 years ago,” he said.
At the University of Texas at Austin, officials don’t routinely double-check application data, although they do look for red flags, such as an essay that’s streets ahead of a student’s English grades, said Bruce Walker, vice provost and director of admissions.
“At some point you have to develop trust in this process,” he said. “Is there cheating going on? Yes. Is it rampant and so much so that it is tilting our freshman class in the wrong direction? No.”
According to Barrie, his Web site regularly receives 100,000 papers to be checked each day and 30 percent show signs of copying. He thinks the issue of cheating students goes deeper than some want to acknowledge.
“Nobody wants to be the first person to step up and say, ‘You know what? There’s a problem and we’re going to do something about it,’” Barrie said. “Nobody knows what it’s going to look like when you turn over that rock.”
— Associated Press
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