I am a big fan of technology. I’ve blissfully given over my spatial reasoning to Google Maps. I use artificial intelligence (AI) to chase down articles, do research, fix my grammar mistakes and whip ...

Admissions offices have been contending with essays generated by artificial intelligence for more than three and a half years now; according to a 2024 survey, about half of college applicants use AI ...

The college application season starts all at once. On Aug. 1, 2025, I woke up to more than 100 emails from colleges announcing their applications were open. I applied to 27 colleges: two I felt ...

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I couldn’t give take-home assignments anymore. Handwritten tests in class wouldn’t work either. Somehow, I needed to fill ChatGPT’s shoes. Tom Kaspers is an assistant professor in philosophy at the ...

As a college admissions counselor, I have edited hundreds of essays. This is the first year my students asked whether they should use artificial intelligence to write them. I warned them not to. I ...

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Personal statements highlighting race have become another issue in the DEI crackdown within college admissions. The White House has issued another update in its crackdown on DEI in higher education.

Mo Marie Lauyanne Kouame, 18, dreams of being an aerospace engineer and building spacecraft. This fall, she applied to MIT, Princeton, and Columbia. For one college essay, she wrote about being ...

The University of Oklahoma assured a student that her final grade won’t be affected by the zero she got for an essay on gender, a score that prompted religious discrimination allegations and inflamed ...

A University of Oklahoma student received a zero on a psychology essay after using her religious beliefs to discuss gender norms. The graduate student instructor said the grade was for not properly ...