Rick Clark, the executive director of undergraduate admission at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his staff spent weeks this summer pretending to be high school students using A.I. chatbots […]
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Back to news homeWe Used A.I. to Write Essays for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Here’s How It Went.
A.I. chatbots can do a passable job of generating short essays. Whether their use on college applications is ethical is the subject of fierce debate.As high school seniors begin working […]
How Fairfield University Ended Up With Few Low-Income Students
FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Last night, the first official basketball game at Fairfield University’s brand-new, 85,000-square-foot Leo D. Mahoney Arena took place. The building, which cost $51 million, takes pride of […]
The Discount Data That Some Colleges Won’t Publish
By now, many people shopping for college have gotten the message that not everyone pays the list price. But what percentage do get some kind of discount, how much is […]
Financial Aid: Grades, Merit and Talking to Kids About Paying for College
This Is Very UncomfortableIf you are raising your eyebrows now, administrators feel for you. They do not like the equity implications of merit aid either, even if affluent families who […]