Graduate admissions essay review
An admissions-style read of your application essay.
Paste a personal statement, a goals essay or a statement of purpose. You get back the one line a reader keeps, where their attention dropped, and the fix to make first.
Which essay are you writing?
Pick the one your application asks for. Each read is built for that document and that reader, on the prompts the program publishes.
- In season nowLaw schoolPersonal statementAbout two pages, double spaced
15 program pages on file - Medical schoolPersonal statement5,300 characters on AMCAS and AACOMAS, 5,000 on TMDSAS
3 program pages on file - Business schoolGoals essay50 to about 1,000 words, set prompt by prompt
25 program pages on file - PhD programsStatement of purposeUsually 500 to 1,500 words, no prompt beyond that
13 program pages on file - Master's programsStatement of purposeUsually 500 to 1,000 words
4 program pages on file
Paste your essay. The first look is free.
You see the verdict and where the read went before deciding on the full report.
Track
Applying to college instead?
Pick a track to start. Medical school, Business school, Law school, PhD programs, Master's programs.
What you get back
Six things, each anchored to a sentence you wrote.
- 01The one sentence a reader would repeat about you after a fast read.
- 02Where attention held and where it dropped, paragraph by paragraph.
- 03Six bands, each with the sentence that earned it and what would raise it.
- 04Notes anchored to your own sentences, with rewording options in your register.
- 05Every named program, faculty member, or resource, listed so you can check each one.
- 06Two ways to restructure what you already have, sketched out.
The review improves your essay. It never writes one.
10 reports are published in full, printed exactly as they came back. Almost all of those essays come from the corpus the read is checked against, flaws documented in advance, so the gallery shows it reading drafts it did not get to choose: sample reports.
Each track has a page of its own that starts from the essay rather than the application: law school personal statement review, statement of purpose review for PhD and master’s, MBA essay review, and medical school personal statement review.
Common questions
- Which track should I pick?
- The one that names the application you are filling in. If you are applying to a master’s and a PhD with the same document, pick statement of purpose: it is one piece of writing and the read is the same shape, with the reader persona set to the programs you name.
- Is the first read free?
- Yes. The first look gives you the verdict and where the read went, so you can see how your draft was taken before deciding on the full report.
- Will you rewrite my essay?
- No. The read quotes your own sentences back to you, says what each one is doing, and offers rewording options in your own register. Two ways to restructure what you already have are sketched, never written out as a finished draft.
- How current are the prompts?
- Every prompt was read from the program’s own admissions page, not from a guide, and each program page carries the day it was last read and a link to the page it came from. Where a page could not be reached, the program says so rather than pretending otherwise.