What Do Harvard, Caltech and Other Top Universities Actually Say About AI in Your Application?
If you’re applying to university or graduate school right now, there’s a good chance the institution you’re targeting has already published an AI college application policy. And while the rules aren’t identical everywhere, there is a clear pattern: universities are increasingly drawing a line between using AI as a tool and allowing AI to create the work you submit as your own
AI Can Write Your Essay, But It Won’t Sound Like You
Can AI really replace a personal essay? In 2025, researchers at Cornell set out to test exactly that, comparing 30,000 human-written college admissions essays with essays generated by eight popular large language models, including ChatGPT.