From the Brown Daily Herald: Brown does not formally use third-party applications to check whether students are suspected of artificial intelligence use in admissions essays. But according to Associate Provost for Enrollment and Dean of Undergraduate Admission Logan Powell, the admissions team notices when there are “dramatic inconsistencies” in applications that indicate that AI might be used in an applicant’s essays. According to Powell, the admissions department maintains the same AI policy set by the Common Application, which prohibits “submitting plagiarized essays or other written or oral material, or intentionally misrepresenting as one’s own original work” through various means, including “the substantive content or output of an artificial intelligence platform, technology or algorithm,” according to its website. But due to concerns over the accuracy of third-party AI-checking applications, the University does not formally screen a student’s application for the use of AI. “We would never want to assume that someone who just prefers to use em dashes in their writing copied the content of some large language model,” Powell said.
Brown also does not use any AI for the subjective evaluation of a candidates’ application... At Brown, the admissions office has opted against this strategy, instead training staff to look for evidence of “consistency and authenticity” in writing, Powell said. While discrepancies in an applicant’s voice are a cause of concern, Powell said that this is not a new issue specific to the use of AI...
Full story at https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/why-brown-does-not-use-third-party-ai-checkers-in-admissions-essays-20261015.
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