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your college essay guide

Write your essay

Not an AI writer. A reader that listens to your story, finds the thread already running through it, and hands the sentences back to you.

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where our students are now

seven schools · classes of 2024 through 2029
read this first

It will not write a sentence for you.

It will not hand you a paragraph to paste.

It will not tell you what admissions wants to hear.

admitly is not an AI essay writer. It is a reader. It listens to your story, finds the thread, and tells you what the piece wants to be. Then you write it. That is the whole point.

100

questions in the bank, so two students never get the same interview

4

shapes your reader can speak in: question, observation, structure, contrast

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sentences written for you, enforced by the product, not by a promise

the method
01 / 04
01live transcription · follow-ups as you speak

Talk

Press the mic and say whatever comes. admitly listens as you go and asks the next question in real time, pulling from a bank of a hundred that never repeats on you. Five minutes of talking beats five hours of staring.

02threads · tensions · concrete images

Map

Everything you have said, uploaded, and typed gets read together. Recurring threads surface. Tensions you did not notice get named. You get three directions the essay could actually go, each anchored in something you really said.

03your words only · autosaved

Write

A clean page and a running clock. Your reader sits in the left margin and does not touch the draft. Music if you want it. Word count against the real limit for the real prompt.

04structure · gaps · pressure

Sharpen

Ask for pushback and you get pushback. Where the piece sags. Which paragraph is doing no work. What you claimed but never showed. Never a replacement sentence, because that would make it our essay.

Everything in,
one map out.

Nothing you hand over is graded and nothing is required. Paste badly. The point is volume of real material, because a thread only shows up once there is enough to cross.

what you give itraw
  • 01

    Five minutes on the mic

    rambling, contradicting yourself, doubling back

  • 02

    Your transcript

    pasted however it came out

  • 03

    Activities and awards

    including the near misses

  • 04

    A resume

    bullet points are fine

  • 05

    What you actually read

    books, channels, forums, whatever it really is

  • 06

    A draft you hate

    optional, and common

what comes backyour story map
threads01

What keeps coming back

Named plainly, each one anchored to the specific thing you said that makes it a thread instead of a coincidence.

tensions02

Where your own account pulls against itself

The contradictions you did not notice. These are usually where the essay is.

images03

The concrete things you mentioned

The broken dryer in the garage, not family struggles. Kept, because these are what a reader remembers.

directions04

Three ways this becomes an essay

Described as what the piece would have to do. Never as text to write, because then it would be our essay.

the prompt library

51 schools.
98 prompts.

The seven Common App prompts word for word, plus the supplementals schools ask year after year. Every school prompt links out to the official page so you verify the wording before you write to it.

Stanford University250w

Roommate letter

Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate get to know you better.

Stanford University250w

Intellectual excitement

The Stanford community is deeply curious and driven to learn. Reflect on an idea or experience that makes you genuinely excited about learning.

Stanford University250w

What matters and why

Tell us about something that is meaningful to you, and why.

Harvard University200w

Intellectual experience

Briefly describe an intellectual experience that was important to you.

Harvard University200w

Life experiences

Describe a time when you strongly disagreed with someone about an idea or issue. How did you communicate or engage with this person? What did you learn from the experience?

Harvard University200w

Roommate detail

Top three things your roommates might like to know about you.

browse all 98 prompts

Ready to find your throughline

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simple progress
  • talk and be heard
  • map the material
  • draft in your own voice
  • sharpen under pressure

Your material is yours. It is never shared with any school, never sold, and never used to train a model. Transcripts, grades, resumes, and drafts are stored privately against your account and visible only to you.

the four shapes
questionobservationstructurecontrast
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