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AI may be scoring your college essay. Welcome to the new era of admissions
AI tools help U.S. colleges reduce application processing times and detect inauthentic work while ensuring human reviewers make final admissions decisions.
- Colleges are increasingly deploying AI to review materials and automate clerical tasks while admissions offices retain final decision authority.
- Last year, Virginia Tech received 57,622 applications for its 7,000-seat freshman class, straining 200 essay readers, with Espinoza saying AI is saving at least 8,000 hours.
- Under the new system, one of the four short-answer essay readers is an AI model trained on past essays and the scoring rubric, with a second human stepping in if scores differ by more than two points on a 12-point scale.
- Colleges are watching reactions carefully as they roll out tools; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faced heavy negative feedback and NACAC updated ethics guidance this fall.
- The school hopes to expand the service soon to all high school transcripts, and Georgia Tech is testing transcript-reading AI to identify federal Pell Grants eligibility and speed transfer-credit decisions.
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AI may be scoring your college essay. Welcome to the new era of admissions
Students applying to college know they're not supposed to use AI chatbots to write their essays. So it might come as a surprise that some schools are now using artificial intelligence to read those essays.
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