AI in College Admissions Research: 4 Major Studies
4 studies on AI in college essays: detection F1=0.998, SES admit gap widened 31%, AI essays lose 22% authenticity, AI writes male and privileged.
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AI in Education
AI College Essays Sound Male and Privileged - Cornell Study
Cornell + Stanford analyzed ~170,000 essays: AI aligns with male, continuing-gen, and high-EC writing 65-92% of the time. GPT-4 is more skewed than GPT-3.5.
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20% of UC Applicants Wrote in Spanish. ChatGPT Wrote Zero.
Cornell + Stanford analyzed 35,789 Latinx UC applicants: 20% used some Spanish in their essays. Across ~26,000 GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 essays on the same prompts, 0% did.
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Who Uses ChatGPT for College Essays? Not the Poorest Kids
22% of under-$50K applicants used AI on essays vs. 40% of $75-100K (Foundry10). Lower-SES users are penalized 1.85x more per unit of AI use (Cornell).
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Telling ChatGPT Your Identity Won't Make Essays Sound Like You
Cornell tested 8 LLMs: telling ChatGPT your race or first-gen status doesn't make essays sound like you. For Black applicants, it actively backfired.
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31% of Teachers Used ChatGPT for College Rec Letters
Foundry10 surveyed 425 teachers: 31% used AI for college rec letters. They rate their own use as more ethical than students do.
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What Is CASPA? PA School Application Guide (2026-2027)
CASPA is the centralized PA school application used by ~90% of US PA programs. $185 first program. Cycle opens April 30. Full timeline, fees, components.
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The Best Things Professors Have Written About AI: A Wall of Quotes from 210 Syllabi
From Harvard's one-word AI policy to a professor who compares ChatGPT to Janet from The Good Place, here are the most striking, funny, and thoughtful things professors have written about AI in their syllabi.
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"I'm Not a Cop": The Professors Who Refuse to Police AI Use
Some professors are rejecting AI detection entirely — citing inaccuracy, surveillance concerns, and trust. We found their actual syllabus language from 210 course policies.
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What 210 Professors Actually Say About AI: A Language Analysis of Syllabus Policies
We analyzed the actual language of 210 course-level AI policies across 181 institutions and 75 disciplines. Here's what professors' word choices reveal about how academia really feels about AI.
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