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To learn more about how BusinessWeek.com applies this policy, you can contact our Marketing Department. | | This week in MBA Express | | Dear Reader: Should anyone be in the business of selling MBA admissions essays? It's an interesting question, and one that more MBAs seem to be answering in the affirmative these days. The editors of The Harbus, the Harvard Business School newspaper, sell a book of 65 successful HBS essays. Another group of Harvard MBAs tried to start an essay-selling business last year (using Harvard seed money no less) as part of the school's new curriculum. And now, as Alison Damast reports, a husband-and-wife team with MBAs from Stanford and Haas has started a similar business. More than 400 MBA students or alumni have uploaded essays to the site, and get a cut of the profits every time someone buys their essays. The company maintains that the essays are being sold for "inspiration" purposes only. But at a time when admissions essay plagiarism appears to be a large, and growing, problem, is this the kind of inspiration that should be placed in the hands of applicants? As a journalist, I'm the last person in the world who would argue in favor of limits on anyone's ability to publish. But it seems to me that selling essays that opened doors for one applicant makes it possible for another applicant to game the system-and devalues the very degree the successful applicant worked so hard to get. Admissions committees don't want essays that reflect (or were "inspired" by) someone else's goals and experiences. They want yours. If you're not prepared to give them that, you're not prepared for business school. Louis Lavelle, Business Schools Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek | | Louis Lavelle |  | | Advertisement  | Business School Resources | Advertisement  | |
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