Last updated August 4, 2026 · Effective August 4, 2026
This document is an agreement between you and Admitstant, Inc. (“Admitstant”, “we”, “us”). Questions about anything in it go to hello@admitstant.com and get a real answer.
The short version
Admitstant gives you feedback on your college application essays and helps you organise the rest of the process. It cannot get you into a college, and nothing it tells you is a prediction of whether you will be admitted.
Your writing stays yours. We take only the narrow permission we need to store it, show it to you, send it for analysis and share it with people you invite — nothing more, and it ends when you delete the work.
Paid plans renew automatically until you cancel. You can cancel any time from your account and keep access until the period you already paid for runs out.
The grader is a tool for improving your own writing. Submitting work that is not yours is between you and the colleges you apply to, and it is a misuse of this product.
This summary is here so you actually know what you agreed to. It is not the agreement — the numbered sections below are, and they control if the two ever disagree.
1The agreement
These Terms are a binding contract between you and Admitstant, Inc. covering admitstant.com and the Admitstant application. By creating an account or using the service, you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use Admitstant.
Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with your information and forms part of this agreement.
2Who may use it
You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under 13 you may not create an account, and we will delete one if we find it.
If you are under 18, you may use Admitstant only with the knowledge and permission of a parent or legal guardian, and that parent or guardian agrees to these Terms with you and is responsible for your use of the service, including any charges.
If you are agreeing on behalf of a school, district or organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.
You must give accurate information when you sign up, and keep your login to yourself. Tell us promptly at hello@admitstant.com if you think someone else has your account.
One account per person. Accounts are not transferable, and you may not share one with another applicant.
3What we provide
Admitstant provides software for writing and revising college application essays, researching colleges, tracking deadlines and requirements, finding scholarships, and organising activities and test scores.
The essay grader analyses a draft you submit against a published rubric and returns scores, written feedback and sentence-level notes. Some features use artificial intelligence; section 9 explains what follows from that.
We may add, change or withdraw features. If we withdraw something you are paying for, section 5 covers what happens to your money.
4Your account
You are responsible for what happens under your account. Keep your credentials secure, and do not let anyone else use them.
You can close your account at any time by emailing us. We will delete your content within 30 days, subject to the retention rules in our Privacy Policy.
5Plans, billing and cancellation
Paying
Prices are shown on our pricing page in US dollars and exclude any tax we are required to collect.
Payments are processed by Clerk. Your card details go to Clerk, never to us.
By subscribing you authorise us to charge that payment method on each renewal until you cancel.
If a payment fails we may retry it and may suspend paid features until it succeeds.
Cancelling
Cancel at any time from your account’s billing page, or by emailing hello@admitstant.com. Cancelling is not harder than subscribing and we will not put a retention interview in your way.
Cancellation stops the next renewal. You keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for.
Your work stays on your account after a plan ends; you simply lose the paid features.
Refunds
We do not generally refund partial periods, because you keep access for the rest of the one you bought.
If the product did not work — the grader failed, you were charged twice, or you were billed after cancelling — email us and we will refund you. We would rather return money than keep it from someone who did not get what they paid for.
Where the law gives you a cancellation or refund right that is stronger than this, the law wins and we will honour it.
6What Admitstant is not
In particular:
A score is an opinion about a draft, not a forecast. A high score does not mean you will be admitted anywhere; a low one does not mean you will not. The grader is reading your writing, and admissions officers read a whole application.
Safety, Target and Reach labels are arithmetic on published statistics, nothing more. They compare your numbers to a school’s reported ranges. They cannot see your essays, recommendations, circumstances or the shape of this year’s applicant pool.
We are not your school counselor, and we do not replace one. We do not provide legal, financial, immigration or tax advice. Scholarship and financial-aid information is a starting point for your own research, not advice about your situation.
College data comes from public sources and may be out of date or wrong at the source. Deadlines, requirements, test policies and word limits change, sometimes without notice. Always confirm against the college’s own website before you rely on anything. We work hard to keep this accurate and we still cannot guarantee it.
You make your own application decisions. We give you better information and a clearer view of the work; the judgement stays yours.
7Honest use, and academic integrity
Admitstant is built to make your writing better, not to write for you. The grader quotes the sentences behind every note and asks you questions about your own experience; it is deliberately built to refuse to hand you finished sentences in your voice.
You agree that:
Every essay you submit for feedback is your own work.
You will not present anything generated by Admitstant as your own writing to a college or scholarship provider.
You will follow the rules of the colleges and programmes you apply to, including their statements about acceptable help and use of AI. Those rules differ, they are binding on you, and it is your responsibility to know them.
You will not use Admitstant to write, edit or grade someone else’s application as though it were your own, or to run an essay-writing service.
If a college penalises an application, we are not responsible for that outcome — but we would rather say clearly what this tool is for than leave it ambiguous. Getting feedback on your own writing is ordinary and legitimate, and has been for as long as people have had teachers. Submitting words that are not yours is a different thing, and this product is not built for it.
8Your writing stays yours
You own everything you write in Admitstant. We claim no ownership of your essays, lists, notes or any other content.
So that the product can work, you give us a limited licence to host, store, copy, display and transmit your content — solely in order to provide the service to you. Concretely, that permission covers only:
storing your drafts so they are there when you return, and syncing them across your devices;
transmitting a draft to our AI provider when you ask for a grade;
showing your work to a parent or counselor you have invited;
making backups, and diagnosing a fault you have reported.
We will not publish or quote your essay anywhere without asking you first and getting a clear yes.
9About the AI
Some features are powered by large language models. You should know what that means in practice.
Output can be wrong. It can misread a sentence, miss the point of a paragraph, or state something confidently and incorrectly. Read it as a well-read stranger’s opinion, not a verdict.
Output is not deterministic. Grading the same draft twice can produce slightly different notes and a slightly different score. That is a property of the technology, not a fault in your essay.
Judgement stays with you. Feedback is advisory. You decide what to change, and disagreeing with a note is a legitimate response to it — every note quotes its evidence precisely so you can weigh it.
No decision with legal effect is automated. Nothing the grader produces determines anything about you outside this product.
To generate feedback we send your draft to our AI provider. Our agreement with them does not permit your input to be used to train their models. See our Privacy Policy.
10Things you must not do
Break the law, or use Admitstant to harm, harass or impersonate anyone.
Upload someone else’s personal information without their permission, or content you do not have the right to upload.
Try to break, overload, probe or circumvent the service, its rate limits, or its access controls.
Scrape, bulk-download or resell our content or data, or use automated means to access the service beyond ordinary personal use.
Reverse engineer the service, or attempt to extract the rubric, prompts or models behind it.
Attempt to make the AI produce content that is illegal, or that is designed to deceive a college about who wrote an application.
Resell, sublicense or share paid access with people who have not paid for it.
We may suspend or close an account that does these things. Where it is proportionate we will warn you first and give you a chance to put it right.
11Parents, counselors and shared access
A student may invite a parent or counselor to view their work using a single-use code that expires after an hour. If you are that viewer:
You get read access only, to the work the student has marked ready, plus the ability to comment.
You may use that access only to support that student, and you must not copy, share or repurpose their writing.
The student controls the relationship and can revoke your access at any time, without notice to you.
A student who invites someone is choosing to share their drafts with that person. Think about it before you hand out a code.
12Availability and changes
We aim to keep Admitstant running and to make it better, but we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may need to take it down for maintenance, and things occasionally break — including at the providers we depend on.
We may change or discontinue features. If we discontinue a paid feature that materially reduces what you bought, you may cancel and we will refund the unused part of the period.
Keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose. We take backups and we would rather you did not have to rely on them.
13Ending this
You can stop at any time by cancelling and closing your account.
We may suspend or end your access if you materially breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if we discontinue the service entirely. Except where you have seriously breached these Terms, we will give you reasonable notice and a chance to export your work.
If we end the service or your paid access for a reason that is not your breach, we will refund the unused portion of what you have paid.
Sections 8 (your content), 13 to 16, and any payment already owed survive the end of this agreement.
14Disclaimers
To the fullest extent the law allows, Admitstant is provided “as is” and “as available”, and we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the service will meet your requirements, that it will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, that feedback will be accurate, or that college data will be current or complete.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer protection law that cannot be waived.
15Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, Admitstant will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, or any admissions outcome, whether or not we were told such damages were possible.
Our total liability for any claim relating to Admitstant is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty US dollars.
Nothing in this section excludes liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, in which case they apply to you only as far as the law permits.
16Your responsibility to us
You agree to cover our reasonable losses and legal costs arising from your misuse of Admitstant, your breach of these Terms, or content you upload that infringes someone else’s rights. We will tell you promptly about any such claim and let you take part in defending it.
17Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Courts located in Pennsylvania have exclusive jurisdiction, and we each consent to that jurisdiction.
If you are a consumer resident in another country or US state, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer laws where you live, or of your right to bring proceedings in your local courts where the law gives you that right.
18The rest
Changes
We may update these Terms. For material changes we will give notice by email or in the app at least 14 days before they take effect, and if you do not accept them you may cancel. Continuing to use Admitstant after they take effect means you accept them.
Whole agreement
These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about Admitstant, and replace anything said earlier.
Severability
If a court finds part of this unenforceable, the rest stands.
No waiver
If we do not enforce something immediately, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.
Assignment
You may not transfer this agreement. We may transfer it to a successor if the company is acquired or reorganised, on the same terms.
Force majeure
Neither of us is liable for failures caused by events genuinely beyond our reasonable control.
If a clause here worries you, write to us about it. We would rather explain what we meant, or fix the wording, than have you agree to something you did not understand.