Colleges Are Letting AI Bots Help Make Decisions on Who to Admit

Thousands of students will get their college decisions faster this year because of artificial intelligence.

Admissions departments across the country are turning to AI for help reading essays and reviewing transcripts, aiming to streamline work for their staff as higher education faces funding pressures. With corporate America using the technology to screen job applicants, schools like Virginia Tech and the California Institute of Technology are taking a page out of hiring managers’ playbook.

It’s the latest indication of how large language models from the likes of OpenAI Inc are drastically altering US education. College professors are integrating AI into their teaching methods, and students are turning ...