At Bucknell, we can assure you that a real human being (at least two, actually) will review your entire application, including your essay, and that they (not computers) will decide if you get in.

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I asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to write some college admissions essays and sent them to experts to review. Both of the experts said the essays seemed like they had been written by a real student. However, ...