Congratulations to your daughter on her accomplishments! While sports are certainly an excellent EC, showing commitment and dedication, there really isn’t any one EC that is viewed as “better.” Students are admitted with a variety of ECs, leadership, experiences etc.
OOS is tough due to the caps…but you will know soon enough. Good luck!!
Do they normally give any notice when the deicisons are released? Meaning if it is this Friday would we know they are coming any time before Friday afternoon or do they magically show up at 4:15?
4 pm. On the dot.
Yes but will be know prior to release that they are releasing decisions on a particular day since we do not know for sure which day?
Someone had posted that their instagram site or Facebook site may “ hint” at a release that day - telling followers to keep an eye out etc.
I think last year their admissions page on Insta had hints it was coming out. And then when they released, they posted an absolutely lovely video welcoming admitted students. Brought tears to my eyes.
The use of AI is at UNC-CH.
This quote from the article:
““This (the essay) is your opportunity to let admissions officers know who you are as a person outside of what they’re already going to see on the application.”
And by admissions do they mean the robot?
Sounds like admissions also reads the essays:
The reader guidelines explain that the essay score may give the reviewer an idea of the writing quality, but reading the entirety of the essays will give the reviewer “a more accurate sense of a student’s writing abilities.”
As for this quote, wow, just wow. Thinking she wishes she got a redo on this.
“There is no legal obligation to require and/or read essays for undergraduate application review,” Media Relations Manager Beth Lutz wrote in a statement to The DTH.
Distressing, this AI involvement.
Nice.
This is unfortunately an issue in every situation essays are required at any level of schooling, middle, high, college and beyond. On a side note Duke has moved to not quantifying essays for this very reason. Standardized scores are not as well.
“staff member told him that the essay score is not that important to an applicant’s final admission decision.”- This is concerning imo, although as discussed prior, there are sections including essays that generally are lower in score vs say gpa and course rigor. I suppose this model attests to that fact and its priority in admissions. Lots and lots of applicants.
Yes, it sounds like AI gives it a grammar/punctuation score, and then the essay is also read by someone (or some essays are).
Given the 90,000 applicants they got, I imagine this is helpful in quickly dismissing a percentage of the applicants who have low essay scores plus low gpa and no test scores or low scores.
The article also says AI is just giving it a grammar/punctuation score, not that essays aren’t read by a human.
Sure but then why this statement?
“There is no legal obligation to require and/or read essays for undergraduate application review,” Media Relations Manager Beth Lutz wrote in a statement to The DTH.
They are being read, right?
Sure…sure…Believe what you want.
I think many are being read. But if a student has a lower gpa and test scores, and a low essay score (based on AI grammar/punctuation), it should be tossed before a human gets to it so they have time to look at the qualified applicants. That statement to me means that not every essay is getting read. Not that they don’t read any essays.
In a closer read of the article, you missed the next line which says, “Essays are crucial for a comprehensive review, and we read all three to better assess our applicants,” Lutz wrote.
maxxc1009 do you work for UNC? you are very active/knowledgeable on this page for someone who does not have a DS or DD applying this year - so I was just curious!
I have a child there and as a high school educator in the area, I have a vested interest in their admissions procedures.
Anyone thinking this Friday?