Is It OK to Use AI for College Essays?

Short answer: It depends on what you mean by “use.”

Longer answer: AI to brainstorm, spell-check, or proofread? Fine. AI to write your essay? You just handed your application to something that knows nothing about you and everything about the average student.

The essay is the one place in the application where you have no competition. Nobody else has your stories, your voice, or your angle. The moment you outsource that, you lose the only edge that was entirely yours.

Fun fact: You are the world’s leading expert on you. AI cannot compete with that.

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