Study Conducted by Stanford Suggests Essay Content Correlates more Strongly with Household Income than SAT

The linked page includes this:

“We quantify essay content using correlated topic modeling (CTM) and the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software package.”

How long before college admissions offices use something like this to auto-grade college application essays, even if just to check consistency between different admission readers?

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