AI has complicated the process of submitting essays for college admissions.
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The college admissions essay is in a very weird place. It’s impossible to say just how many of them are now written by AI, but at this point, experts agree that it’s a lot of them. And while colleges generally frown upon that practice, they’re using AI to evaluate the essays, too.

It’s all adding up to a scramble to stay ahead over the future of who gets to go to the university of their choice.