Hacker News with Generative AI: College Admissions

Colleges limit AP credits to maximize tuition revenue: study (thecollegefix.com)
Universities across the U.S. are preventing students from earning a degree in less than four years by accepting fewer Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate credits, a recent report by the Progressive Policy Institute found.
I could tell which college admissions essays were written by ChatGPT (reddit.com)
In the past three days, I've reviewed over 100 essays from the 2024-2025 college admissions cycle. Here's how I could tell which ones were written by ChatGPT.
Stanford will once again require standardized tests for undergraduate admission (sfchronicle.com)
Harvard applications drop 5% after year of turmoil on the Ivy League campus (cbsnews.com)
Caltech restores standardized test requirement for undergraduate admission (caltech.edu)