The study, “Gender Identity and Access to Higher Education,” found that college admissions counselors give preferential treatment to emails from people with pronouns in their signature lines.

Babson College in Massachusetts, for example, gives students a 500-word limit to answer a prompt, or they can choose to submit a one-minute video about why they chose to apply to the school.

For example, let’s take AI’s impact on the college application essay. AI not only has killed it; it is already starting to rot. With version 4, AI detectors are basically useless — and they ...