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Never. It scores your draft against a transparent rubric, quotes the exact sentences behind every note, and suggests what to try, but the words stay yours. Admissions officers can tell when an essay isn’t in a student’s voice, and protecting yours is the whole point.

Yes. Common App, Coalition, UC personal insight questions and school-specific supplements are all supported, and the grader knows each one’s word limit.

Ignore it. Every note quotes the sentence it’s about so you can judge it for yourself, which is exactly the point. Feedback you can’t interrogate isn’t feedback, it’s an instruction.

No, and we won’t pretend to. We show whether your numbers sit above, inside or below a school’s published ranges (Safety, Target, Reach) and say plainly that it can’t see your essays, recommendations or context. Anyone quoting you a percentage is guessing with extra decimal places.

Public sources: the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Common Data Sets. Rankings follow U.S. News ordering; every stat in the app shows its source, and figures we haven’t yet synced are labelled as illustrative rather than passed off as real.

Yes. The presets are shortcuts for seven category weights, and you can open the weights and set them yourself. Prestige is one of them. We’d rather model it honestly than pretend it doesn’t drive decisions.

Only you, unless you share a specific draft. Parents and advisors you connect see progress and can comment on what you share. They can never edit your work or open drafts you haven’t shared.

Use it to personalize your experience. That’s all. We don’t sell it, share it, or hand it to schools. Product analytics are anonymized with a visitor hash that rotates daily, so even we can’t follow one person across days.

You generate a short code and read it to them; they make a free account and enter it. Codes expire an hour after you make one, work once, and you can disconnect anyone at any time from your side.

You can do a lot without paying: a free account covers one full essay analysis plus school research, scholarship matching, the resume builder, brag sheet, interview prep, deadlines, FAFSA help and the parent view. Paying is for analysing an essay again after each revision.

Email hello@admitstant.com and say so. No form, no proof required. The free tier is genuinely complete, and we would rather you use the product than not.