This is on point, I'm Meghna Chakrabardi. Regular listeners to On Point, and I truly hope you are one of them, know that we are keenly interested in understanding how artificial intelligence is transforming everything about our lives in ways visible and invisible. You might have recently heard our rebroadcast about artificial intelligence and universal basic income, for example.

Or remember, our week-long series about how AI is changing health care.

Well, today we've got another one that should be of interest to more than a million Americans

and their families every year at least and that is AI and college admissions and

we'll start with Rick Clark he is the college admissions.

And we'll start with Rick Clark.

He is the Executive Director of Strategic Student Access at Georgia Tech and he joins us from Atlanta.

Rick, welcome to Onpoint. Thanks so much for having me.

Great to be with you.

So before we talk about AI as a potential tool for college admissions,

I'd love to actually get your help in understanding more deeply how college admissions kind of works right now.

So first of all, I understand that Georgia Tech received what more than 50,000 applications recently? This last year we were right

at 60,000 total for the first year class. 60,000 and how many students were

admitted?

So we admit about 15 percent.

We're a public institution so that number looks different for in-state versus out-of-state,

but our admit-rate in-state, more like one out-of-every three, but then

that out-of-state admit rate is continuing to decline closer to about 10 percent now.

I see, okay. Good point about in-state versus out-of-state, an

important factor for Georgia Tech. But nevertheless, the point is that there's an

overwhelming number of students, much more, an orders of magnitude more than the spots

that Georgia Tech has.

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