U. San Francisco to Employ AI in Admissions Process
“Final decisions will still ultimately be made by human admissions counselors.”
It’s a whole new world. This is probably going to be used by lots of schools in the future.
Campus Reform reports:
USF set to analyze prospective students’ applications with AI
A California school will begin using artificial intelligence as part of its admissions review process next academic year.
The University of San Francisco, a private Jesuit school, signed a contract with CollegeVine to use its AI software to “summarize prospective students’ applications and essays and flag potential holes in their transcripts,” according to The San Francisco Examiner.
Eric Groves, the school’s vice president for strategic enrollment management, said the move is meant to reduce counselors’ workload rather than replace them. Final decisions will still ultimately be made by human admissions counselors.
According to its website, CollegeVine’s agents “perform critical functions within every department on campus,” including enrollment management, student services, and academic affairs.
USF is not the only school opting to include artificial intelligence in its admissions process. Virginia Tech is now using one human and one AI assistant to grade each admissions essay, while it previously used two humans for the task. AI will not make any final decisions in this case either, and another human can be brought in to review the essay if the first reviewer and the AI assistant’s score differ by more than two points.
California Institute of Technology will be utilizing an AI chatbot to interview students on video about their research projects. The interview is then uploaded and reviewed by admissions professionals to ensure its authenticity, according to a report by Fortune.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has also begun to implement AI, using it “to provide data points about students’ common application essay and their school transcripts,” according to its website.
The school says that data points such as “writing style and grammar and the rigor of students’ coursework” will be evaluated by the technology, allowing the university’s “admissions team to focus on the content of a student’s essay, the student’s grades, and the extent that they’ve challenged themselves in the classroom with a strong curriculum.”
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Since they are using AI to evaluate, I wonder how they will feel about students that use AI for their admissions essay.
Is turnabout fair play or are they different circumstances? One is about workload management and economics while the other is about demonstrating competence and capability. It just begs the question about the value of student prompt engineering in the college landscape.
Since they are using AI to evaluate, I wonder how they will feel about students that use AI for their admissions essay.
Indeed. The whole college admissions process has been corrupted. Not just applicants using AI to write admissions essays.
Corruption from the colleges: applications require applicants to jump through hoops that were not there decades ago. Such as involved application essays, such as acquiring a resume of activities that would increase likelihood of admission.
When I was in high school, a school that sent 10% of its graduates to the Ivy League or its equivalent, neither I nor my peers would have tailored our activities to increase the likelihood of admission to an elite college. Nowadays, tailoring one’s high school activities with an eye to the college admissions game is routine.
Corruption from the applicants : high school grades have gone up in recent years/decades. When everyone’s high school grades are good, high school grades cannot be used to distinguish between those likely to succeed in college and those not not likely to succeed in college.
or….
how I learned to escape responsibility and got my affirmaction dei approvals