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Most schools now use AI to triage applications. Knowing what the model rewards — and penalizes — changes how you write.
More than half of U.S. admissions offices in 2024 used AI to do an initial pass on applications. The models are trained on past admit decisions, which means they reproduce past bias — favoring writing patterns common in well-resourced high schools and penalizing AAVE, code-switching, and ESL phrasing.
Take any draft essay and run it through a plain readability checker (hemingwayapp.com is free). Aim for grade 8-9, lots of short sentences, real verbs. That's what scores high with both humans and the bots.
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