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Dean Z of Michigan Law on Admissions Advice and AI: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

Dean Z of Michigan Law on Admissions Advice and AI: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

Update: 2025-05-20
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike Spivey and Anna Hicks-Jaco have a conversation with Sarah Zearfoss (also known as "Dean Z"), who has long led the admissions office at the University of Michigan Law School as Senior Assistant Dean and who hosts the admissions podcast A2Z with Dean Z.

The group discusses using generative AI to write your essays vs. to research admissions advice (including asking ChatGPT a few admissions questions and critiquing its answers), the prospect of law schools using AI to evaluate applications, grade inflation (and how admissions officers saw it before open access to generative AI vs. now), application timing (and how early applications correlate to stronger admit rates without necessarily causing them), and more. Plus, Dean Z introduces a new question being added to Michigan Law's application this upcoming 2025-2026 cycle.

You can listen and subscribe to Status Check with Spivey on ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. You can read a full transcript of this episode here.

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Dean Z of Michigan Law on Admissions Advice and AI: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

Dean Z of Michigan Law on Admissions Advice and AI: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

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