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• Chickenstalker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why even have essays? What’s the point of having your education certs if your entry requires an essay? All you are doing is letting in the best bullshitters.

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• Bye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Essays were always shit. People had others write them, parents, etc.

  It should be interviews and fewer people should go in the first place.

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  • tleb@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why have essays or interviews? In Canada, my application to university was simply my transcript.

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    • CoderKat@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same. Maybe higher level degrees are different, but getting into an undergrad program in the one major university my city had was extremely easy. I applied and got accepted. It actually never even crossed my mind that it wouldn’t get accepted and I never applied anywhere else, nor did anyone ever tell me that I should (though that may have been grade dependent).

      By contrast, American media usually shows getting into university as some grueling task, where a guidance counselor tells you to apply to all these universities and there’s essays and whatnot.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    part of the issue is the lack of funding in earlier education so Americans finish their basic/compulsory education at university. a lot of the rest of the world does the same education but to finish by the time you’re 16.

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hi I’m education university, we teach your kids how to transition from childhood into adulthood in the modern world.

  But when the modern world changes, we threaten our own prestige by burying our heads in the sand and pretending the world hasn’t changed.

  With that said, we will both be continuing to judge op ed essays for admissions while simultaneously banning the most modern technology which assists that very task.

  We hope your children will graduate prepared for the rapidly changing modern world.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  chatbots might reshape the admissions process this fall — the start of the first full academic year that the tools will be widely available to high school seniors — and come up with guidance for students applying to Georgia Tech.

  chatbots like ChatGPT, which can manufacture humanlike text in response to short prompts, is poised to upend the traditional undergraduate application process at selective colleges — ushering in an era of automated plagiarism or of democratized student access to essay-writing help.

  tools to produce college essay themes and texts for deeper reasons: Outsourcing writing to bots could hinder students from developing important critical thinking and storytelling skills.

  Wealthier high school students, these experts noted, often have access to resources — alumni parents, family friends, paid writing coaches — to help them brainstorm, draft and edit their college admissions essays.

  ChatGPT could play a similar role for students who lack such resources, they said, especially those at large high schools where overworked college counselors have little time for individualized essay coaching.

  Mr. Clark, the Georgia Tech admissions official, said ChatGPT could not compete with live writing coaches or savvy parents in providing feedback to high school students on their personal essays.

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• Zummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isn’t it basically impossible to tell if someone is using A.I. to write these essays?

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• BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What are the essays even about? Why we’re the most suitable ones to give them money?

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