One of my very close family members is an admissions director at VaTech and this is not true.

The essay-importance era is ending soon. Schools will be returning to aptitude and SAT 2 style tests (APs?) before you know it. Why judge an essay, when you can judge a timed writing test? Why bother evaluating someone's 4.6 GPA against someone else's 4.3 GPA if you can just see which one got all 5s on their AP tests vs the other one getting 2, 3 and 4s with an inflated GPA. I think things are going to shift quickly, especially with the current administration in the White House.

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The California Institute of Technology is launching an AI tool this fall to look for “authenticity” in students who submit research projects with their applications, admissions director Ashley Pallie said. Students upload their research to an AI chatbot that interviews them about it on video, which is then reviewed by Caltech faculty.

“It’s a gauge of authenticity. Can you claim this research intellectually? Is there a level of joy around your project? That passion is important to us,” Pallie said.

Well, obviously, if you’re assigning the job of assessing that “passion” to a chatbot. Jesus.

Faculty are the ones assessing it.

Does anyone know if UVA is using an AI-assisted reader this year?

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Anonymous wrote:UNC and VT really stepping up to show why people don't respect public schools.

There are thousands upon thousands hoping and praying to get into one of those schools.

Yep. I got a good chuckle from the silly PP.

Anonymous wrote:UNC and VT really stepping up to show why people don't respect public schools.

Too funny. If anything, we’ve been witnessing a huge swing in favor of public schools. No matter, AI in admissions is coming to all schools soon, including your precious SLACs.

Anonymous wrote:UNC and VT really stepping up to show why people don't respect public schools.

There are thousands upon thousands hoping and praying to get into one of those schools.

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Anonymous wrote:UNC and VT really stepping up to show why people don't respect public schools.

100%

clown

Anonymous wrote:UNC and VT really stepping up to show why people don't respect public schools.

shut up already.

Anonymous wrote:UNC and VT really stepping up to show why people don't respect public schools.

100%