{"id":173997,"date":"2026-01-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/ai-may-be-scoring-your-college-admissions-essay\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:55:36","slug":"ai-may-be-scoring-your-college-admissions-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/ai-may-be-scoring-your-college-admissions-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"AI may be scoring your college admissions essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-02\/ai-may-be-scoring-your-college-admissions-essay\">AI may be scoring your college admissions essay<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-02\/ai-may-be-scoring-your-college-admissions-essay\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-02\/ai-may-be-scoring-your-college-admissions-essay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-02 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.latimes.com\">www.latimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Caltech has pioneered an AI-assisted selection process for early applicants, involving AI-powered video interviews and evaluations by human faculty and admissions officers.<\/li>\n<li>Colleges are adopting AI to read essays, conduct interviews, and detect fraudulent applications, balancing the role with human review processes.<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Tech is using AI to sort admissions applications more efficiently, with AI tools saving thousands of hours for essay reading and processing.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Colleges face backlash where AI use is controversial, such as UNC&#8217;s use of AI for grammar and style evaluation in essays.<\/li>\n<li>Despite widespread use of AI, concerns around bias and the inability of machines to address nuanced human aspects in application review persist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI may be scoring your college admissions essay https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-02\/ai-may-be-scoring-your-college-admissions-essay Publish Date: 2026-01-02 06:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/94d589f\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3600x1890+0+255\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F12%2Feb%2F9ef000444233a3af36eeabfe19dd%2F1470506-me-caltech-women-admissions-rc26.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173999,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173997\/revisions\/173999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}