AI and the Future of College Admissions

About this Event

AI is moving fast — and it’s already changing how students learn, apply, and get admitted to college. For families, that brings both opportunity and uncertainty.

Join the CEOs of Collegewise and theCoderSchool for an engaging fireside chat with education leaders Anjali Bhatia and Hansel Lynn, as they unpack how artificial intelligence is transforming both education and college admissions.

This session takes a two-pronged look at AI’s impact:

Anjali Bhatia, CEO of Collegewise, explores how AI is reshaping the college application landscape — from essays to testing to how admissions offices detect and respond to AI-generated materials.
Hansel Lynn, founder and CEO of theCoderSchool, discusses how AI is transforming how students learn, especially how they learn to code and what it really means to “learn AI” in high school.

They’ll cover:

How colleges are detecting and responding to AI-generated application materials
How different colleges are approaching AI in admissions — from cautious experimentation to firm guidelines
How the application process may evolve, including potential shifts in essays and testing
How AI affects learning to code
What it really means to “learn AI” as a high school student
How to prepare for the future (and current) AI-driven world

You’ll walk away with insights to help you and your student navigate this new terrain confidently — plus a live Q&A with our presenters.

Anjali Bhatia

Chief Executive Officer, Collegewise

Anjali is a mission-driven CEO with a lifelong passion for helping students build the right skillsets. She's held a number of executive leadership positions within education over the last 12 years. Anjali holds her MBA from The Wharton School, where she received the Joseph Wharton Fellowship. She completed her undergraduate degree at Duke University, where she was the recipient of the full merit scholarship, the Robertson Scholarship. Outside of Collegewise? She is a tea sommelier and loves spending time with her daughters!

Hansel Lynn

CEO and Founder, theCoderSchool

Back in 2013, Hansel happened to be trying to get his own kids to learn to code. When his oldest, Maile (10 at the time), whipped through an online learning website really fast, proud Papa asked some questions. To his surprise, Maile really didn’t learn much at all! “I just clicked through to get to the end”, they said (sound familiar, parents?!). That was the lightbulb moment when Hansel realized that software can’t teach kids – PEOPLE need to teach kids. And thus the idea behind theCoderSchool and our Code Coaches® mentoring philosophy was born. Wanna know more? See Who We Are, or check out an episode of our Bonus AppStream, one of a series of videos by us that teaches kids how to build a simple app.