Ban or embrace? Colleges wrestle with AI-generated admissions essays.

Meg Scheid, an outreach coordinator for college and career at Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, speaking with senior students Kevin Jacob, center, and Rita Vakharia at the school in Lawrenceville, Ga. on Aug. 29, 2023. Several students at the school said that they did not think A.I. chatbots were helpful for college essays. (Alyssa Pointer, The New York Times)

By The New York Times News Service Syndicate | wordpress@medianewsgroup.com

PUBLISHED: September 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM MDT | UPDATED: September 9, 2023 at 12:03 AM MDT

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Rick Clark, 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 artificial intelligence chatbots to fill out college applications.

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