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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. You don’t have to reload. But worth keeping in mind that the LLM looks for patterns, essentially, based on its training set, which is the internet. So while this is a massive simplification, here’s an example:  if people on DCUM and other web sites always post that kids who are interested in  political science should go to William and Mary, the LLM will say “Because your child is interested in poli sci, I recommend William &Mary for its programs in…”. The LLM doesn’t have access to some greater or deeper knowledge, or actual experiences (beyond those posted online), or admissions files. It’s giving you the conventional wisdom essentially, the patterns that most closely match what you’re asking. It’s not evaluating in the human sense. It’s not that it can’t be useful, but it’s good to understand what it’s drawing on.[/quote]

Amending this to say: if you feed it data from scattergrams, naviance, etc, then yes, it can use that data for example to give a percentage chance. You just want to think about what it is using to generate results and truly validate those results.[/quote]

At our private school, they also circulate this at the end of each year of where kids were admitted to separate from Navion. So it’s like a chart. It may not be complete, but it’s a good additional data source. I also inputted anything I knew about legacies into a class when it was Assessing the quality of ex missions and to see where there might be opportunities. It had some good analysis and year to year trends.

The more specific data it has the better it is. The more specific your prompts are the better analysis will be. Continue to refine the prompts over and over and over again and ask it really hard questions and question the assumptions it is making and even some of its results. Ask it to verify With, “are you sure XYZ” - sometimes the defensive analysis is really good. And sometimes it’s discovered it was “hallucinating”.[/quote]

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