AI Admissions Essays: Karma for a Flawed System?
_akpiper · x · 2026-08-26
Citing an NYT report that AI is forcing colleges to pare down admissions essays, the author argues that officers reading AI-generated content is 'karma' for inventing a genre that forced millions of kids to be inauthentic.
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