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School AI policies · Yale University

Does Yale University allow AI help with college essays?

Permits AI feedback; prohibits AI-written text

What Yale University publishes

“Using an AI platform to review one's grammar or spelling, or to seek general advice or topic suggestions at the start of the writing process does not constitute application fraud. Submitting personal statements or other written application responses composed by text-generating software may result in admission revocation or expulsion.”

Yale maintains a dedicated admissions AI-policy page with an explicit carve-out: grammar review, general advice, and topic suggestions are fine; submitting AI-composed text is application fraud. The two quoted sentences come from separate paragraphs of that page.

Verified August 4, 2026 · published policy

Do your own fact-checking. This page is a starting point, not the authority. The school's own admissions pages are. Policies can change after our check date (August 4, 2026), and you are responsible for verifying Yale University's current policy yourself before you rely on it, here or anywhere else.

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