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Should students be allowed to use AI on their college admissions essays?
Parents often ask me whether their kids should use AI to write their college essays. I say they should only do so after they've written it themselves.
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Should students be allowed to use AI on their college admissions essays?

It wasn't long ago they began banning student use of it for homework or test-taking. Admissions offices are different, though.

This essay originally appeared in The Guardian. I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the…

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