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Hi All - I'm sure there's already been posts about this but I wasn't able to find any discussions. I'm in the process of getting out my applications had a question on how admissions officers are treating the use of AI with personal statements and optional essays.
I'm asking because I just wrote out a quick draft of an optional essay and put it into Grammerly to see if it would be flagged as AI generated. Grammerly said it was 83% AI generated even though it was 0%. I then put in a paragraph that I had ChatGPT write and it said it was only 70% AI generated.
My concern is that schools are going to throw out my application because they use one of these tools that erroneously says my essay is AI. Does anyone have any insight into this? Obviously it's a very new problem.
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Hey Peter! If you're not using AI to write your essays, then I wouldn't worry about it. I've seen some attempts to do this, and it's very obvious when people are using AI tools on these statements -- they're full of puffy statements that could be true about any applicant or any school. What you need to write are essays that capture your unique voice, that don't sound "perfect," and which specifically talk about experiences and motivations that cannot be extrapolated by an LLM. Having sat with 7Sage admissions officers as they've evaluated hundreds of applications, I can tell you they're hunting for very specific things -- generating your essays with AI, or worrying about them mistakenly thinking that, isn't the real assignment here. Make sure your essays are strong, specific, and fit your overall application strategy, then fire away.
No AI detectors do a great job yet. They are mildly to terribly inaccurate. I wouldn't worry about this.