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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure many of you use ChatGPT or the like in your daily lives and see its power to write just about anything.

Is it time for schools to 100% kill all essays?  Honestly, what's the point?[/quote]

I can smell gpt essays a mile away.  Heck, I can smell gpt posts on DCUM a mile away.  
College essays need to be authentic.  There is nothing authentic in the gpt essays.[/quote]

I would agree with you if there were one or two essays.  There are now so many essays required, and some of htem have really stupid prompts, that I'm sure that most of what kids write sounds like gpt even if it isn't.   If you are applying to 20 colleges, and each one asks you to write the "why us" essay .... is there anyway that it won't sound like chatgpt or a madlibs?.  Unless you have some truly unique circumstances -- my ill mother is in cancer treatment there and so this will allow me to stay with her; my grandfather worked as a groundskeeper there and it was always his dream that one of his children or grandchildren could attend as students; etc.  I'm sure most of those answers are written by ChatGPT, because honestly what do they expect with that kind of question?  The true answer is pretty much always "It seems like a good school that I could maybe get admitted to, based on what the scattergrams and your admissions stats suggest, and also like the people there won't be too snotty and the social stuff looks fun."  
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