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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All I have found so far is an article from 2024:

[quote]Slate will make essay summaries effortless for admissions officers
The Slate Platform, used by hundreds of admissions offices across the country, has promised to deliver AI essay evaluation through its Pre-Reader: “the Slate Pre-Reader will summarize what a reviewer needs to know about a letter of recommendation, college essay, etc.” This function is still in development, but once rolled out, it’s poised to have a very meaningful impact on the admissions world.

Researchers have been actively training AI models to evaluate student admission essays for personal qualities
A research group based out of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Colorado at Boulder developed a tool (i.e., modified a Facebook Large Language Model, ROBERTA) to analyze and evaluate student admission essays across seven variables, including teamwork, prosocial purpose, intrinsic motivation and leadership. Admissions officers scored 3,000 student-submitted essays across these variables and then used this data to train the model. Once trained and fine-tuned using the human feedback, the model was applied to 300,000 previously submitted essays (from the 2008-2009 admissions year) and was able to successfully score the essays similarly to the human evaluators.

Through their analysis of the calculated essay scores and subsequent academic outcomes of these applicants, researchers found that meaningful insights were gleaned from the AI scoring. Students whose essays scored positively for leadership were more likely to graduate from college in six years than those whose essays did not, even after controlling for differences in test scores, demographics and other factors. This research offers evidence that AI systems can effectively evaluate student essays for traits that are valuable to colleges.

The GMAT has been using AI to score essays for 16 years[/quote]
https://www.mytutor.com/blog/ai-will-soon-be-reading-your-college-admissions-essays

I'm not sure whether this is what the podcast will be discussing.[/quote]

Super interesting. Thanks for posting it.

This is obviously the opposite side of the coin - how colleges may be using AI to evaluate applicants' essays.

FWIW, this all sounds fine to me. I appreciate the way it's been trained and normed, and it makes sense given the insane volume of applications (and therefore essays) colleges need to get through in a very short period of time. (I "blame" the Common App for this. It created an arms race where kids think they should apply to more schools, and it makes it way too easy to do so . . . . )

Finally, I'd rather have AI evaluate my kid's essays than an exhausted seasonal reader who's half asleep at 11 pm. But maybe others disagree?

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