Just as an update.....after having nailed my oral board, had a lot of work to do cleaning up my thesis. Added 5 or 6 more pages and re-did some of my stats. Yay math.

End result: Maximum threshold for similarity check on dissertation/thesis online is 15%. My thesis is WAY under the max at 3%, not surprisingly since there is only one other researcher who has done the same work - and he is in Spain.

Three signatures and I get to add letters at the end of my name.