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[quote=Anonymous]If your private school told you that every application from their school is read by a human and detours the AI filters at T25 schools…well then I have a bridge to sell you. Also AI isn’t only used as a gate keeper for the first pass. This is another smokescreen to make people think oh it’s just weeding out the obvious unqualified students, my kid is being given thoughtful consideration.

Look AI isn’t all bad. It’s probably far better than readers and even AO staff in consistently applying criteria, filtering out personal bias, and not having one batch get less review because the reader felt off or was having a bad day. Readers are given a list of criteria to follow, so is AI. AI can and does go much further.

What I think is scary is that these systems are tying more data together to be predictive. As an applicant my own performance is not solely driving my score but the performance of prior students with matching attributes.Pattern predictive scoring ‘feels’ unfair because it’s correlation not causation.

Keywords are critical and gamification will emerge to nail the correct keywords. Keywords can also be used to red flag applications. Can you imagine the type of cheats that will emerge if someone hacks these systems? Sure this could have happened in the past with sending out scoring sheets to hundreds of temp readers but at the scale of what is starting to be put in place it’s more of a target.
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