Chatgpt common app essay blew me away..

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop cheating. Write your own essay.

NP but your mindset sounds like one that insists on cursive curriculum and using a physical checkbook. Adapt already. I bet you still put two spaces after a period when typing.

Spaces are not content. Typing habits are irrelevant to the quality of the actual prose.

Read this to learn more about the cliche bullshit that AI produces.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1h0vhlq/in_the_past_three_days_ive_reviewed_over_100/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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Smart, well-read people can spot AI a mile away. If you can't spot it, you aren't one of those people.

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Anonymous wrote:Smart, well-read people can spot AI a mile away. If you can't spot it, you aren't one of those people.

You are so dumb!

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Anonymous wrote:and I’ve taught AP English Lit in a DCUM community for 25 years. A coworker asked me for prompts to illustrate how quickly the quality is evolving - it was an authentic, heartfelt, well written essay that I would never be able to tell was AI generated. God help us all

can not wait for the automated lady of the night robots.

then we will not need women anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a good thing. 90% of people don’t need to be great writers they just need to convey information,

Pretty soon, we can have AI grade the student's papers that were created with AI.

Sounds like a plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good thing. 90% of people don’t need to be great writers they just need to convey information,

Pretty soon, we can have AI grade the student's papers that were created with AI.

Sounds like a plan.

This is where admissions essays are headed. Written by AI to then be evaluated by AI.

I’m hoping the whole essay charade collapses before DC#2 applies to college in 2028.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good thing. 90% of people don’t need to be great writers they just need to convey information,

Pretty soon, we can have AI grade the student's papers that were created with AI.

Sounds like a plan.

AI grading is already happening. I heard it from a professor directly.

Maybe only the analog people from the days of "two spaces after a period" still think that a human should be in the higher learning feedback loop.

It's also happening in corporate performance evaluations. Not so much grading but employee and manager both using AI to get the task over with quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:Smart, well-read people can spot AI a mile away. If you can't spot it, you aren't one of those people.

Yes they all have the same ending. The double para conclusion.
The dramatic last sentence that overreaches.

Have read several dozen this weekend (essay editor). 75% are fine until the 2nd half - then a give away of AI.

Note at selective schools they’ll be disregarded. I’m sure they are fine for most others.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/15nabey/how_good_is_chatgpt_at_college_admissions_essays/

Check out this post by a college admissions counselor

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/15nabey/how_good_is_chatgpt_at_college_admissions_essays/

Check out this post by a college admissions counselor

its 2 years old? Do you know how much has changed in 2 years? Please....

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This (actually, the predecessor of kids having someone else write the essay for them) is what it has befuddled me that universities never leaned into the SAT essay option.

Even before AI it was impossible to assess writing ability in *any* of the college essays-- the common app essays or, really, even the very university-specific ones. Because the most savvy students had them heavily edited, to be generous.

Why not bring back the SAT essay??

I used to help with graduate admissions in my own university and the standardized tests for graduate students had a similar essay option. I (we) ignored the standardized scoring and simply read the essay, which was printed on the score report. So universities could do the same thing. Of course, students would still prep (quite possibly using AI to prep) but at least we would see something more authentic than what universities get now (and actually, what they've been getting for years).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good thing. 90% of people don’t need to be great writers they just need to convey information,

Pretty soon, we can have AI grade the student's papers that were created with AI.

Sounds like a plan.

College professors are already doing this. There's no "pretty soon" ... it's here and now.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/15nabey/how_good_is_chatgpt_at_college_admissions_essays/

Check out this post by a college admissions counselor

That essay is terrible. No respectable teenager would know who the "f" Pete Seeger is for starters. Now of course the bright kids can anticipate and research. But come on. This does not read like something a creative bright kid would write. I would anticipate some kind of teenage attempt to discuss the sentiment of "carpe diem". After completing sophomore year college French, I might have dropped "Ou sont les neiges d' antan" (Where are the snows of yesteryear) into a reswoody. None of us are Boomers so the likelihood of effectively relating to the context is low.

I certainly wouldn't expect a kid to write that. Unless the prompt was: "Pretend you're an unfunny, pedantic grownup who loves meaningless turns of phrase. Be sure to come up with a pat conclusion for the college essay editor to discard."

"Title: A Blossoming Inquiry: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"

While Pete Seeger might have been musing on the tragic cycle of war in his poignant ballad, I find myself humming the same tune while contemplating the question, "Where have all the flowers gone?" in a more literal sense. It's a blossoming mystery, a root-deep inquiry that's been niggling at my green-thumbed heart."

So much fake in this. Basic theme boils down to: flowers grow and are seasonal. Please tell me that nobody thinks that is niggling at any teenager's heart. Or that any teenager is humming Pete Seeger songs.

It's an elegantly-written steaming pile of doody.

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^and I have no idea what my insane automated phone spellchecker turned into the invented word "reswoody". It follows along behind me inserting errors....