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LLM-Era College Admissions Essays Exhibit Paradoxical Semantic Trends

2025-10-22

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<p>Concerns that AI will homogenize human thinking—and homogenization evidence when human-AI collaboration is observed—appear at odds with findings that AI-assisted content is judged as highly original. Using a multi-method approach that combined a controlled experiment with two large-scale natural experiments in over 160,000 U.S. college admissions essays, we observed a counterintuitive pattern: AI-assisted essay...

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10.31234/osf.io/jsz58_v4
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