Last week I was quoted in a Forbes article about Artificial Intelligence and its ability to write college essays. As is often the case, the reporter picked up just one of the things I had said about the issue, which was that the essay examples the reporter had sampled using AI were “cliche” essays, hard to distinguish from student essays I’ve seen written with help from some essay consultants. Unfortunately I didn’t specify “some.”
The quote from the article appeared in this morning’s Today in College Admission, published by NACAC. I was contacted shortly thereafter by Chris Reeves, counselor at St. Henry District High School in Kentucky and a former member of the NACAC Board of Directors. Chris pointed out that the quote appeared to disparage all Independent Educational Consultants. That was not my intention, and I apologize if it came across that way.
I plan to write more fully about the AI issue in early January, but didn’t want to wait to clarify.