Writing a college essay has always been nerve-wracking, but now there's a new twist: artificial intelligence. With AI tools like ChatGPT at your fingertips, letting a computer write your way into ...

A good college admissions essay should help admissions officers get to know students better on a personal level. AI can’t help with that.

While using one AI tool alone cannot substitute in-depth research and human-to-human connection in your college search and discovery process, it gives you a way to kickstart and supercharge your ...

College counselors in the US are too overworked to meet with every student. A new wave of specialized AI tools can learn students’ interests, then recommend schools, areas of study, and scholarships.

A new study from Seattle-based education research organization foundry10 found that 30% of students and teachers surveyed are using AI to help with the college essay and letters of recommendation ...

Partnering with the Common App, the researchers assembled a data set of 300,000 students who applied to college in 2008 and 2009, gathering a random sample of essays that were read by humans and ...

Generative AI can craft a polished admissions essay in seconds. Schools statewide are wrestling with how much to fight or welcome the new tech. NC college admissions confront AI-written ...

Many educators and college faculty are OK with students consulting ChatGPT for help on admissions essays, but chatbots can't be a replacement for a student's own voice, subjective experience and ...

And, yes, college applicants are leaning on AI for admissions essay assistance. According to a study published this past summer by foundry10, an education resource organization based in Seattle ...

According to recent data from the education research organization foundry10, about a third of college applicants in 2023-24 acknowledge using an AI tool for help in writing admissions essays.