Bates College essay review
Bates College asks for no supplemental essay for 2026-27, so the one essay Bates College reads is your personal statement. A NudgeEssay review reads that statement against the prompt you pick, not against a general checklist: six rubric bands scored 1 to 5, notes on your own sentences in the margin, a map of where a reader's attention holds and where it drops, and a ranked list of fixes with the biggest one first. The first fix and the line a reader kept come back free; the full marked-up report is $49 for one essay or $299 for 20.
The Bates College prompts and deadlines below were read on Bates College's own admissions site on 2026-08-17. NudgeEssay is not affiliated with Bates College and makes no claim about any admissions decision.
What Bates College asks you to write
Bates College asks for no supplemental essay this cycle, so there is one essay to get right: your personal statement, submitted through Common App. That is the draft a review reads.
108 of the colleges in this dataset ask for no school-specific essay. See the full list of colleges with no supplemental essays, or the Bates College requirements page for the deadlines and the source.
What the review does to your Bates College essay
It reads the draft cold, the way a stranger with four hundred more files to get through reads it, and answers the question that decides the essay: what is still there a week later. Then it scores six rubric bands from 1 to 5, each with a short quote from your own essay that drove the band and two or three sentences on what would raise it.
It marks your own sentences in the margin, maps where a reader’s attention holds and where it drops across the draft, screens for the patterns that read as AI-written or consultant-written, names the stock archetypes the essay is falling into, and ranks the fixes with the biggest one first. It points at your own material and never writes a sentence for you to paste.
Because Bates College asks for no supplement, prompt fit is judged against the personal statement prompt you picked.
All 23 checks are listed on what the review checks. Seven complete reports on sample essays are published unedited, exactly as the engine wrote them, on the samples page, and what a college essay grader leaves out explains where the six bands stop and the read begins.
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$49 for one essay, $299 for a pack of 20, one free re-read on every essay, nothing expires. The first fix and the line a reader kept come back before you pay. Every plan is set out on the pricing page.
When it is due
| Round | Date |
|---|---|
| Early Decision | November 15, 2026 |
| Early Decision II | January 10, 2027 |
| Regular Decision | January 10, 2027 |
A college can move a date mid-cycle. Confirm on Bates College’s own page before you rely on one. Every round for every college is on the deadlines page.
What Bates College reports about admissions
Bates College admits 13.3% of applicants. The middle 50% of enrolled students scored 1420-1530 on the SAT and 31-34 on the ACT.
From the federal College Scorecard, pulled 2026-09-17. Score figures describe enrolled students, not applicants and not admits, and they are not a cutoff. No admission probability is stated anywhere on this site, because colleges do not publish admit rates conditional on a score, so any single percentage would be invented. The free chance me tool sorts a list into reaches, targets and likelies and gives no percentage either.
What Bates College actually costs a family after grant aid, income band by income band, is on the Bates College cost page.
Questions
- Does Bates College have supplemental essays?
- No. Bates College asks for no school-specific essay for 2026-27, checked against Bates College's own admissions site on 2026-08-17. The essay that reaches Bates College is your personal statement, so that is the draft to have read. The full list of colleges asking for no supplement is at /no-supplemental-essays.
- What does the review read if Bates College asks for no supplement?
- Your personal statement, the essay Bates College receives through Common App. The read is the same one every essay on this site gets: six rubric bands scored 1 to 5, notes on your own sentences in the margin, a paragraph-by-paragraph map of where a reader's attention holds and where it drops, and a ranked list of fixes with the biggest one first. It quotes your own writing back to you and never writes a sentence for you to paste.
- When is the Bates College application deadline?
- The first deadline is Early Decision on November 15, 2026. Bates College publishes 3 rounds for 2026-27: Early Decision on November 15, 2026, Early Decision II on January 10, 2027, Regular Decision on January 10, 2027. Dates come from Bates College's own admissions site, read on 2026-08-17, and a college can move a date mid-cycle, so confirm on Bates College's own page before you rely on it.
- How much does an essay review for Bates College cost?
- $49 for one essay, $199 for a pack of 10, or $299 for a pack of 20, which is about $15 an essay. Every essay includes one free re-read of the revised draft and nothing expires. You see your report in redacted form, with the first fix and the line a reader kept, before you decide whether to pay.
- Is NudgeEssay connected to Bates College?
- No. NudgeEssay has no relationship with Bates College or with any other college, is not endorsed by Bates College, and does not predict, influence or guarantee any admissions decision. The Bates College prompts and deadlines on this page were read from Bates College's own public admissions pages and are linked to their source. The review is a reading of your writing, nothing more.