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Prompt’s pedagogical approach can be summarized in one sentence:
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We help each student highlight their unique potential for success, identifying their core traits and showcasing them through their actions and impact.
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That is something that AI cannot do.
What we don’t do…
Prompt is not responsible for identifying AI content, just as we don’t check for plagiarism. This policy mirrors the fact that almost every college application asks students to affirm that they did not plagiarize or use generative AI for their application. As such, it is each student’s responsibility to make ethical choices regarding their use of AI.
What we always do…
It is our responsibility to help students craft their best essays.
AI uses patterns to generate content, creating a buzzword-heavy, superficial writing style. When a student inputs a college admissions prompt, AI will use millions of examples to generate its content—but it won’t generate anything new. When our main goal is to help our students stand out by demonstrating their potential for success, working from a pattern is exactly what we don’t want students to do! Additionally, many students might stumble into writing that sounds like AI through mimicking what they’ve seen elsewhere or accidental overreach from proofreading services like Grammarly. In the end, this content might sound “good,” but readers won’t feel a connection to the student—and they won’t be rooting for them to succeed. That is why no matter the cause, we will address content issues and guide our students toward improvement as educators.
🖋️ The Coach's Approach
- Coaches will provide feedback on all submitted essays, regardless of AI concerns.
- Prompt does not automatically run every essay through an AI checker. Our Writing Coaches have been trained by reviewing dozens of examples of AI-generated essays, extensive resources on AI warning signs, and they stay up to date on the latest trends through our community discussion boards. We’ve believe their instincts on what is weak writing are stronger than any checker.
- Students will be guided to replace flagged content with vivid and active details paired with unique insights. We will emphasize replacing AI-influenced content rather than “tweaking” it to avoid essays that have disjointed, clunky writing styles.
- Coaches will highlight their concerns by naming the potential (negative) impact on readers of content that may come across as AI-influenced, with or without referring directly to AI. Then, they’ll walk the student through an action plan to replace the content with new, compelling content.
- We will always provide feedback that addresses content issues that may have been caused by AI and flag AI concerns as outlined in this protocol. Still, we may miss some AI flags, and we will not engage in “proving” whether a student has generated or polished their content with AI.
- We also do not take responsibility for “fixing” AI in students’ essays word by word. Instead, we will provide students with generative brainstorming support, actionable instruction, and transparent content assessment.
📊 Operations Team Reporting
- Our development team has built flagging mechanisms into our platform feedback submission form. Coaches will flag essays with AI concerns as part of their submission procedure.
- Our operations team will generate reports once a week, summarizing flagged essays, organized by student, for each counselor.