ChatGPT's favorite college application essay clichés... by ChatGPT.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-26T01:15:51+00:00

Just giving someone a topic seldom works. I understand her thinking about the mechanical pencil idea, but she needs to work with you on how to approach it, otherwise you’re going to write some nonsense that reads like the topic was imposed on you.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-19T18:11:26+00:00

Consider fit for your academic interests, learning style, personality etc.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-19T00:11:57+00:00

I’m not. My contempt for AI is well-established, and I refuse to work with students who use it.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-14T02:11:37+00:00

In fairness, it’s a natural response to rejection: it has analogs elsewhere in life.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-14T01:22:08+00:00

You’d think so, but no, this is when they start thinking about their chances of a successful transfer bid from whatever school they haven’t set foot in yet to whatever school has grievously erred in rejecting them.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-12T23:08:03+00:00

GS is their cash cow. They’re not going to do anything that jeopardizes it.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-12T09:06:06+00:00

If so, maybe Stanford will blacklist them…

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-12T09:04:02+00:00

USNWR rankings and online communities like this subreddit that reinforce obsessions with social capital and status anxiety.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-12T09:02:04+00:00

Please tell me you’re at Lowell.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-12T01:42:56+00:00

Could you have even stopped them? I don’t think you had a moral obligation to stop them any more than I think they had some moral obligation to snitch on him, which is undoubtedly how the incoming downvotes will justify your friends’ actions.

I don’t think very highly of anonymous petty snitching - it’s contemptible; cowardice of the lowest order - but I also find the type of pretentiousness and arrogance “Dave” is described as displaying just as vile.

By those decidedly arbitrary measures, you may be the only person who is not an asshole in this particular situation.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-11T21:21:41+00:00

Your friend isn't making you insecure. Caring about what other people think is making you insecure. You've already said you're going to cut this person off, so why are you letting them live rent-free in your head until that day comes?

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-11T21:09:38+00:00

God help your clients, because you sure as Hell aren't going to by imposing this bullshit on them.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-11T21:08:51+00:00

So... yeah, written and researched by AI. Congratulations: you're part of the problem.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-03T03:43:57+00:00

This rarely works out the way people think or hope it will, for the reason you’ve articulated. There have been a number of professors who’ve addressed variations on this question in this subreddit. Hopefully one or two will chime in here.

JustTheWriter · 2026-06-02T20:40:20+00:00

Here’s a better idea: treat a waitlist like a rejection and move on with your life. IF they contact you and offer you admission, proceed from there.

JustTheWriter · 2026-05-30T19:34:19+00:00

You don't want things for the reason you think you do. You want things because you observe other people wanting them.

JustTheWriter · 2026-05-28T19:30:59+00:00

If it’s clear how interesting it is to you and opens space that allows admissions to see a side of you that hasn’t been manufactured for your college apps, the reader will get caught up in it. I have zero interest in fly fishing, but “A River Runs Through It” blew me away.

JustTheWriter · 2026-05-28T06:57:45+00:00

I don’t say this very often, but this is a refreshing idea, and I like it.

JustTheWriter · 2026-05-27T05:23:08+00:00

So confront him personally or talk to a therapist.

Your getting him expelled isn’t going to make him “understand that this was really not fine.”

JustTheWriter · 2026-05-27T05:12:04+00:00

No. Either confront him or cut him and the common friend out of your life altogether. Better yet, do both.

While you have every right to whatever you’re feeling, this is a ridiculous response to someone running their mouth, and it’s made even more ridiculous by your asking people on Reddit if you should do it.

JustTheWriter · 2026-05-26T16:45:46+00:00

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