[81alum]

if they would interview all applicants finding people to do ~55,000 interviews might be challenging, as well as having any sort of uniform reporting/grading of the interviews.  Maybe they do a "first cut" to weed out the obvious "no" applicants to cut down on the number of interviews....

True.

The danger is that the applicants who are judged successful are actually those who are superior at using tools to curate and produce a false impression.  Somehow admissions needs to find a way of not just getting past artificial intelligence, but artificial everything.  Otherwise we will wind up with a student body of master manipulators, not those intellectually inquisitive and able students who will genuinely benefit from a Stanford education.

[81alum]

if they would interview all applicants finding people to do ~55,000 interviews might be challenging, as well as having any sort of uniform reporting/grading of the interviews.  Maybe they do a "first cut" to weed out the obvious "no" applicants to cut down on the number of interviews....

True.

The danger is that the applicants who are judged successful are actually those who are superior at using tools to curate and produce a false impression.  Somehow admissions needs to find a way of not just getting past artificial intelligence, but artificial everything.  Otherwise we will wind up with a student body of master manipulators, not those intellectually inquisitive and able students who will genuinely benefit from a Stanford education.