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ChatGPT will give you something that looks good, but lacks substance when you closely examine it. Would highly recommend a 3-step approach 1) human thinking about the core messages you want to send 2) Gen AI draft 3) human polish.
A consultant will help you with the most important step - step 1.
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I personally found my consultant to be super helpful, even with ChatGPT, because they were good at the overall structure and humanizing my verbiage. I didn’t visit any school in person before applying, but I did join a lot of online events and network with students
Square one prep - yes
I would honestly expect the top schools to be running ChatGPT checks and/or detect it on their own so I won’t take that risk tbh
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They do note that they do this on applications
Apps open around June, so you have 3 months between June and September to prepare your essays/apps, can always leverage prior year prompts to get a head start on brainstorming essay content.
Yes, try to apply R1 if possible, but don’t compromise application quality just to apply R1, but assuming you have your test scores ready now R1 > R2 for sure.
If you don’t need someone to hold you accountable, use applicantLab instead of a consultant. Has everything you need and is much cheaper. I use their standard plan + essay and resume review this cycle and got into my top choices
I have used belegendary.ai to guide me through the application process! It’s super helpful by giving me some thoughtful strategies