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Most popular tools
Start here. These four cover 80% of use cases.
College Essay Hook Generator
Paste your essay topic and get 5 original opening hooks in 3 different styles, instantly. Free, no signup.
Open toolAdmissions Officer Simulator
Paste your essay and get reactions written as a real admissions officer would write them: first impression, gut reactions line-by-line, and the final verdict.
Open tool"Why This College" Essay Brainstormer
Paste your intended major and interests plus a school name. Get specific professors, programs, courses, and campus details to weave into your Why essay.
Open toolEssay Polish Pass
One-click comprehensive edit: grammar, flow, cliches, and weak word choices all tightened in a single pass. Voice preserved.
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Specialty tools
Rewriters
44 length and tone rewriters. Voice-preserving.
- Cut to 150 words
- Cut to 250 words
- Cut to 350 words
- Cut to 500 words
- Cut to 650 words
- Expand to 500 words
- Expand to 650 words
- Tighten by 10%
- Make more specific
- Make more personal
- Make more formal
- Add humor
- Make more vivid
- Make more academic
- Add reflection
- Add dialogue
- Simplify language
- Add specific details
- Remove AI voice
- Add emotional stakes
- Rewrite as a letter
- Add place specificity
- Make more vulnerable
- Rewrite as vignettes
- Rewrite in present tense
- Distill to 280 chars
- Add surprise ending
- Cut activity to 150 chars
- Cut to 100 words
- Cut to 200 words
- Cut to 400 words
- Rewrite opening in medias res
- Add concrete numbers
- Strengthen closing line
- Fix transitions
- Rewrite as montage
- Make less grandiose
- Remove hedging
- Cut first-paragraph filler
- Remove cliche phrases
- Add physical sensation
- Shorter sentences
- Stronger verbs
- Add central image
Essay-type scorers
34 formats, each with its own rubric.
- Personal Statement scorer
- Why Us scorer
- Diversity scorer
- Challenge scorer
- Extracurricular scorer
- Community scorer
- Leadership scorer
- Creative scorer
- 150-Char Activity scorer
- Additional Info scorer
- Scholarship scorer
- Honors Program scorer
- Summer Program scorer
- Transfer scorer
- Waitlist Letter scorer
- Research Program scorer
- Video Supplement scorer
- STEM Why-Major scorer
- Business Why-Major scorer
- Pre-Med Why-Major scorer
- Arts Portfolio Statement scorer
- Short Answer scorer
- UChicago Extended scorer
- Disciplinary Explanation scorer
- Oxford / UK Personal Statement scorer
- Yale Short Takes scorer
- MIT Short Answers scorer
- QuestBridge Biographical scorer
- Coalition App scorer
- Gates Scholarship scorer
- BS/MD Program scorer
- Jack Kent Cooke scorer
- Posse Scholarship scorer
- Common Black College App scorer
Topic generators
36 applicant types. Each avoids the cliches of its group.
- Topics for First-Gen Students
- Topics for STEM Students
- Topics for Arts Students
- Topics for Athletes
- Topics for Introverts / Quiet Kids
- Topics for Immigrant Backgrounds
- Topics for Small Town / Rural
- Topics for Low-Income Students
- Topics for Transfer Applicants
- Topics for Religious School
- Topics for International Students
- Topics for Military Family
- Topics for LGBTQ+ Students
- Topics for Neurodivergent Students
- Topics for Gap Year Students
- Topics for Homeschooled Students
- Topics for Student Parents
- Topics for Foster Youth
- Topics for Non-Traditional Age
- Topics for Learning Differences
- Topics for Global Nomad / TCK
- Topics for Humanities Students
- Topics for Debate / Forensics
- Topics for Student Entrepreneurs
- Topics for Performing Arts
- Topics for Pre-Law / Future Lawyers
- Topics for Chronic Illness
- Topics for Religious Minority
- Topics for School Switchers
- Topics for Multi-Racial Students
- Topics for Adopted Students
- Topics for Blended Family
- Topics for Twins / Multiples
- Topics for Math Olympiad
- Topics for Research-Focused
- Topics for Student Caretakers
By essay prompt
Hook generators (and deconstructors for Common App) - pre-tuned to each prompt.
Common App
UC PIQ
By school
82 schools. Each has a Why-Us brainstormer and an essay scorer.
Ivy League
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Ivy League
(8)Elite Private
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Elite Private
(13)Top Tech / STEM
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Top Tech / STEM
(5)Liberal Arts
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Liberal Arts
(22)Top Public
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Top Public
(21)One tool that does it all
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