08-19-2022, 10:49 PM
Over 4,000 people have signed a petition calling on Penn Admissions to investigate allegations of plagiarism against two Penn students enrolled in the University’s highly selective seven-year bio-dental program.
The petition was started on May 16 by “For Justice in College Admissions,” a group that describes itself as a collection of parents, students, teachers, and researchers focused on addressing injustice in academic research and admissions to highly selective U.S. universities. A 30-page document that is linked in the petition appears to present numerous instances of plagiarism and fabricated data in six research papers and preprints authored by the two students during high school. Some of the publications include additional co-authors.
The petition calls on the two siblings at the center of the allegations – rising College sophomore Annabelle Choi and incoming College first year Madeline Choi – to “admit their wrongdoings and apologize to the researchers whose work they have plagiarized and published as their own.”
“Innocent until proven guilty. The cyberbullying is overboard and inhumane given the full political context,” Annabelle Choi wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
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https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/05/pl...e-minister
The petition was started on May 16 by “For Justice in College Admissions,” a group that describes itself as a collection of parents, students, teachers, and researchers focused on addressing injustice in academic research and admissions to highly selective U.S. universities. A 30-page document that is linked in the petition appears to present numerous instances of plagiarism and fabricated data in six research papers and preprints authored by the two students during high school. Some of the publications include additional co-authors.
The petition calls on the two siblings at the center of the allegations – rising College sophomore Annabelle Choi and incoming College first year Madeline Choi – to “admit their wrongdoings and apologize to the researchers whose work they have plagiarized and published as their own.”
“Innocent until proven guilty. The cyberbullying is overboard and inhumane given the full political context,” Annabelle Choi wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
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https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/05/pl...e-minister