Despite the firm resolve of institutions to maintain similar student diversity benchmarks, nearly half (45%) said they were concerned about the difficulty of recruiting and retaining a diverse body, according to a new report by Acuity Insights.
With an unclear purpose, students' proclivity to lie and emerging technologies that can create better prose out of generative AI text, what are admission offices to do with the college essay?
To begin with, do away with the essay: They're vague, hard to score and more than a third of students admit to making them up. After all, asks one academic integrity researcher, "What's their incentive for telling the truth?"
