I see it as hypocritical if a school specifically doesn’t allow any AI use when writing essays, and then uses AI to grade/rate/evaluate essays.
The only thing I will add, without sharing too much detail, is that at the school where I work the enrollment management leaders say AI is ‘not even close’ to being able to holistically read apps the way humans do (and how the school currently wants apps read.) I assume we are developing/testing our own in house AI tool for this function, but don’t know for sure.
With that said, I expect AI will get there, it’s just a matter of when.