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I just read an Upshot essay on how the college essay correlates with socio-economic status and came upon this finding:

In another sign of the persistent pull of social class, a recent working paper from authors affiliated with the Student Narrative Lab at Stanford shows that essay content, when quantified through a computer program, is more highly correlated with household income than SAT scores are…

The number of commas, total punctuation and longer words were correlated with higher household income, for example, although that doesn’t necessarily equate to better writing.

My conclusion: I hope that colleges are not using computer quantification to determine the quality of writing!