See your essays through the eyes of college admissions officers
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Evaluator: Your Essay's Gateway to Success
Evaluator helps high school students assess the quality of their college essays. Using a model trained on top-tier essays, it scores your work on five key criteria: prompt adherence, compellingness, uniqueness, flow, and introspection, each rated 1-5. Beyond scores, it offers holistic feedback, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement, helping you refine your work for maximum impact.
Feedback: Perfecting Every Line of Your Essay
Feedback takes a closer look at your essay, providing line-by-line insights. While Evaluator gives a holistic view, Feedback focuses on the finer details—catching lines that lack clarity, need more explanation, or don’t fit the context of your essay. This tool helps you refine every sentence in the context of the prompt, paragraph, and essay as a whole, ensuring your writing is sharp and impactful.
Brainstorm: Generate Ideas that Shine
Brainstorm helps you find the strongest ideas for any essay prompt, ensuring your concepts highlight your key values. It offers suggestions for improvement and provides insight into what your ideas reveal to college admission officers. With Brainstorm, you can confidently shape ideas that stand out and make a lasting impression on admissions committees.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Cogssay do?
What does Cogssay do?
Cogssay helps you understand what admissions officers are actually looking for. By stepping into their mindset, you can see how your essay might be perceived. Using AI to write your college essay may not be the best approach, but using AI to evaluate it can be extremely effective.
Is it ethical to use Cogssay?
Is it ethical to use Cogssay?
Cogssay is a tool to help you understand how your essay might be perceived by admissions officers. It’s not a tool to write your essay for you. Therefore, it meets university requirements on ethical AI tool use in the admissions process.
How is my data used? Is it secure?
How is my data used? Is it secure?
Your data is protected and handled with strict confidentiality. In accordance with our Privacy Policy, we do not sell your information to third parties. The LLMs we use are governed by a policy that ensures no training is conducted on API data, guaranteeing that your data is solely used to improve your experience without being shared elsewhere. For further details, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
How accurate are the evaluators?
How accurate are the evaluators?
While we can’t and won’t give you an exact percentage chance of admission (and you should be wary of anyone who does), we can tell you what impact your essay might have and explain why.