AI may be scoring your college admissions essay

Caltech has pioneered an AI-assisted selection process for early applicants, involving AI-powered video interviews and evaluations by human faculty and admissions officers.
Colleges are adopting AI to read essays, conduct interviews, and detect fraudulent applications, balancing the role with human review processes.
Virginia Tech is using AI to sort admissions applications more efficiently, with AI tools saving thousands of hours for essay reading and processing.
Some prestigious California universities, including UCs and USC, are cautious about using AI, emphasizing their reliance on human reviewers for qualitative aspects of the review process.
Colleges face backlash where AI use is controversial, such as UNC’s use of AI for grammar and style evaluation in essays.
Despite widespread use of AI, concerns around bias and the inability of machines to address nuanced human aspects in application review persist.

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