We strongly implore UCLA's admissions department to launch a thorough investigation on Brooke Lim Ke Xin's college admissions essay as she has displayed recent and ongoing unethical conduct by plagiarising from others, seeking to boost her professional credibility as a writer through her plagiarised essay by means of self-promotion for her personal brand, and failing to take any accountability for her actions. 

• EDIT (25 April 2023): In light of recent news coverage and Brooke's claims of her essay being "not for profit, academic assignment, or publication", we would like to preface this petition by highlighting the fact that her personal essay on eating disorders was NOT the only thing that Brooke has plagiarised. Brooke has also been found to have copied, word for word, her interview responses (from Jan & March 2023*), website taglines, and her lesson notes- Classical Club's H1 General Paper Open Class: Urban Living activity sheet (18 Sep 2022) as revealed by a Tiktok user and as updated on this exposé. She has not addressed any of these additional evidence and selectively deletes any comments that point out the above allegations factually whilst opting to leave in spiteful comments from inevitable internet trolls. To put up a facade of overwhelming support for her "arbitrary mistake" amidst personally approved low-brow comments, while at the same time, censoring all questions for accountability right after saying she would be open to feedback, is beyond manipulative and deceptive. It says a lot about the credibility of her words and her integrity. 
• Whilst studying in Raffles Institute, Brooke (Lim Ke Xin) wrote an essay on fashion consumerism for The Common Good by Raffles Institution Economics Department & the Raffles Economics and Current Affairs Society. A portion of her essay was directly lifted, without credit, from "The Post-Pandemic Consumer" (April 15, 2020) by Eugene Rabkin. 

Brooke Lim/Lim Ke Xin is a prospective international UCLA (College of Letters and Science, majoring in Pre Business Economics) student from Singapore known as @sugaresque on TikTok, Instagram and Telegram. She founded a tuition company, Classicle Club, where she teaches Singaporean students English and coaches them on essay writing. With this background in mind, her plagiarism is made worse as it shows a blatant disregard towards the ethics of academia and is very much indicative of her own moral integrity as someone from within the educational sector.

On 18 April 2023 (GMT +8), Brooke published a longform essay titled On being afraid of eating on her blog, which she shared with her telegram channel at 10:42pm, Tuesday. She writes that the longform essay is an autobiographical recount that is a very personal and sensitive topic to her. However, more than half of the original version of her essay was plagiarised from multiple books and articles – "Wintergirls" (2009) by Laurie Halse Anderson, "Empty: A Memoir" (2020) by Susan Burton, "How to Disappear Completely" (2013) by Kelsey Osgood, "Anorexia, the Impossible Subject" by The New Yorker [Alice Gregory] (2013). "Anorexia nervosa is a battle site between body and soul" (2020) by Paul Broks, "Less TikTok, More Screaming" (2023) by Persinette, "no good alone" (2023) by Rayne Fisher-Quann, and "Madonna's Face Is Not Subversive" (2023) & "Is It Beauty? Or Is It Coerced Modification?" (2022) & "I Worked My Ass Off for the Kardashian-Jenner Apps. I Couldn’t Afford Gas." (2022) by Jessica Defino.

An exposé written on her states that the similarities include: sentences, whole paragraphs, plot points, and specific details. While each word has been painstakingly paraphrased, the overall structure of full paragraphs are copied with no credit whatsoever to the original creators, despite the obvious correlations. Over 70% of the original essay is not her original work.

To quote a Rafflesian who commented on the topic: "Plagiarism is a HUGE matter. In the IB Syllabus, you are taught from day one that plagiarism is just about the worst thing you can do. If you are caught plagiarising, or even just not giving credit properly (forgetting to put the authors name despite putting the article et cetera) you will be subject to academic dishonesty which will lead to your diploma being rescinded. Moreover, Turnitin (a software used to check for plagiarism) only accepts work with less than 20% similarity to outside sources. Considering Brooke's essay was flagged at 70% - this goes to show how blatantly she plagiarised other sources and the fact that she does not care about intellectual copyrights, which is ironic considering the whole Denise[1] situation." [1]: referring to an incident on 8 Nov, 2022 in which an anonymous account (widely believed to be a shadow account created by Brooke) accused another tutor of plagiarising Brooke's tuition business concepts. The accusations were later debunked and the account deleted.

She has also plagiarised her response to a media interview, TLC x Fempreneurs Series: Brooke Lim (Classicle Club) by The Ladies Cue (16 January 2023), wherein she lifts almost ad verbatim from How Whitney Wolfe Herd created Bumble, the $13 billion dating app that will save the internet by GQ Magazine [Thomas Barrie] (17 May 2021).

• Brooke: "I wish women would talk about their grandiose hopes, wishes, and visions for the future more. So many of us are afraid to verbalize our dreams because we’re scared that they won’t come true. We’re scared of looking like a failure. And when you think about some of the huge, behemoth, male-led enterprises, the founders have always said, ‘We’re going to change the world. We’re going to revolutionize this industry; we’re going to reinvent that industry.’ When a woman says that, she is called delusional or arrogant. I’ve been discredited and verbally abused by strangers for saying things that insinuate that we have grand visions.”
• Wolfe Herd: “I want to make sure this comes off the right way,” she explains carefully. “But I will say that I feel that women are held to different standards when it comes to their grandiose hopes, wishes and visions for the future. You can choose the person – I'm not going to assign names – but when you do think about these big, behemoth, male-led tech businesses, the founders have always said, ‘We're going to change the world. This is going to revolutionise X; this is going to revolutionise Y.’ When a woman says that, she often is called overconfident. I've been beaten down in the press for saying things that insinuate that we have grand visions.” 

Update: Whilst studying in Raffles Institute, Brooke (Lim Ke Xin) wrote an essay on fashion consumerism for The Common Good by Raffles Institution Economics Department & the Raffles Economics and Current Affairs Society. A potion of her essay was directly lifted, without credit, from "The Post-Pandemic Consumer" (April 15, 2020) by Eugene Rabkin. 

• Brooke: "A result of this is the quantity and speed at which we consume, and this is exemplified best by fast fashion. Its terrible impact on the environment and the human cost of its unethical manufacturing practices have been well documented. But they are byproducts of a bigger crime: the industry has conditioned millions of consumers to require a near-constant supply of cheap clothing in order to feel cool."
• Rabkin: "On the other end of the pricing spectrum we have fast fashion. Its terrible impact on the environment and the human cost of its unethical manufacturing practices have been well documented. But these are byproducts of a bigger crime: we have conditioned millions of consumers to need a near-constant supply of cheap clothing to feel cool."

There are MANY other cases of plagiarism too, and the full exposé with evidence and timestamps can be found here: tinyurl.com/exposebrooke

To this date, Brooke has never taken any accountability for her actions and opts to delete her posts in order to hide the fact that she has plagiarised. She limits her Tiktok comment section such that only positive comments praising her are shown and anything that is remotely critical gets deleted. We find this to be rather duplicitous in nature as she is still running her tutoring business and selling her lifestyle to young, impressionable teens who will be swayed by her perfectly curated social media presence. She has shown herself to be dishonest, egocentric and closed off to any forms of discourse. She can stoop so low as to plagiarise something as personal as an eating disorder, that which many vulnerable people struggle with. Words cannot describe how disrespectful and callous it was of her to exploit such mental conditions, something so visceral and real to many, to suit her own agenda. Is this really the kind of student that UCLA wants to admit?

Considering the above instances, it stands to reason that Brooke exhibits a high likelihood of having plagiarised her admissions essay as well, not to mention any future instances of academic work. This is a violation of the UCLA Student Conduct Code and should be taken seriously. We beseech UCLA's admissions team to relook Brooke Lim Ke Xin's original application and reconsider her admittance to UCLA. 

Please help get the word out!

You may report her plagiarism here.