{"id":54,"date":"2026-01-26T18:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/?p=54"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:41:16","slug":"a-i-has-officially-entered-college-admissions-in-the-united-states-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/a-i-has-officially-entered-college-admissions-in-the-united-states-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"A.I. Has Officially Entered College Admissions In The United States Of America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Over the next few days, early-action applicants to Virginia Tech will find out whether they\u2019ve been admitted to the school. That\u2019s more than a month sooner than last year \u2014 and the university says A.I. is to thank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Virginia Tech is among the first schools to use A.I. to assess college applications, of which it received 58,000 for the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Previously, essays were reviewed by two human readers, plus a third if the scores differed significantly. This year, each essay got one initial score from an A.I. tool and one from a human, then a third read from a human as needed. The school made the change after three years of testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few days, early-action applicants to Virginia Tech will find out whether they\u2019ve been admitted to the school. That\u2019s more than a month sooner than last year \u2014 and the university says A.I. is to thank. Virginia Tech is among the first schools to use A.I. to assess college applications, of which it received 58,000 for the 2026-27&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,51,56,16],"tags":[62,63,64,65],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-economy","category-american-jobs","category-american-students","category-big-braingtp","tag-ai-college","tag-ai-enters-college","tag-american-college-students","tag-colleges-use-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigbraingtp.com\/aieducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}